Madame is as charming as a flower

Chapter 529 Footbinding is forbidden. 4
The girl nodded timidly: "I don't want to bind my feet...but grandma said that if I don't bind my feet, I won't be fed. She also said that no beggars will want me..."

When she said this, she lowered her head and poked her little hand, not to mention how wronged she was.

Fu Yuejun's heart was so soft that it was a mess, and she comforted her softly: "You think about everything, don't be afraid, with me here, no one will bind your feet anymore, and no one will beat you."

"really?"

The girl raised her head, and her misty eyes stared straight at Fu Yuejun, making her both sad and sad.

"Of course it's true." Fu Yuejun nodded with a smile, and asked the girl with a gentle smile, "Can you tell me how many people in your house have their feet bound?"

"There are a lot of them. My brother and sister next door secretly told me that it hurts to bind her little feet. She would hide in the bed and cry secretly every night, and she didn't dare to remove the cloth..."

When the girl talked about this, tears kept falling down, and she even grabbed Fu Yuejun's hand, crying and begging her: "Sister, please, don't let them bind their feet anymore, okay..."

Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she couldn't stop the tears. Just as Fu Yuejun wiped her face clean, the veil was soaked again.

"Don't be afraid, I will abolish footbinding in two days, let them let go, and never let this old custom harm you again!" Fu Yuejun held the girl in his arms and patted her on the back, gently coaxing her she.

It hurts so much.

She has indeed never experienced foot binding. After the Qing army entered the Central Plains, because they did not have the custom of foot binding, they hated this custom very much. They made repeated orders and ordered it to be strictly prohibited.

However, although the imperial court was very successful in forcing braids, it could not completely ban foot binding. Moreover, under the firm resistance of the Han people, this ban was useless, and even brought the custom of foot binding to its peak.

The Qing government believed that since it was impossible to prohibit the Han people from giving up this custom, it could at least prohibit the Manchu girls from not doing so.

So the ban was issued again and again, but it was still ineffective, and there were still many banner girls who did not tire of imitating foot binding, and there were men who did not marry wives with small feet. It was a shame for women not to bind their feet.

Moreover, Tianzu women are not eligible to become brides.

Once upon a time, foot binding became a widely recognized standard for evaluating beautiful women?

Fu Yuejun has never seen the process of footbinding with his own eyes, but he has heard about it from his grandmother and master.

At the beginning, let the girl wash her feet with hot water. While the feet are still warm, twist the other four toes towards the center of the feet as much as possible, and sprinkle alum powder between the toes to let the skin converge. Wrap in cloth.

After the feet are wrapped, the soles of the feet will often feel hot. Experienced people will not wrap them hard at the beginning, but gently wrap them together at the beginning, so that the feet will gradually get used to this restraint, and do it again and again Slowly tighten up.

This period can range from a few days to about two months.

This is also called trial wrapping.

After the trial binding, it's time to actually bind the feet.

It was unbearably painful during the day. During the day, my feet were so painful that I couldn't move an inch. At night, my feet were not only painful, but also steamy and stuffy, even painful like a fire.

It is not uncommon for girls to wake up in the middle of the night and cry and cry next to their feet.

Some girls were so painful that they took off the foot wraps, and when they were found, they were beaten severely, and then they wrapped their feet back severely.

(End of this chapter)