La fixation des pieds (pinyin: Chanzu, littéralement "pieds liés") était une coutume pratiquée sur les jeunes filles et les femmes pendant environ mille ans en Chine, à partir du 10ème siècle et se terminant dans la première moitié du 20ème siècle. Il y a peu de preuves pour la coutume avant la cour de la dynastie des Tang du sud à Nanjing, qui a célébré la renommée de ses filles dansantes, renommée pour leurs petits pieds et leurs belles chaussures de proue. Ce qui est clair, c'est que la fixation des pieds a été pratiquée pour la première fois parmi l'élite et seulement dans les régions les plus riches de la Chine, ce qui suggère que lier les pieds des filles bien nées re

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• Dimensions: 3700 x 4702 px | 31,3 x 39,8 cm | 12,3 x 15,7 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 17 octobre 2015
• Photographe: Pictures From History

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Foot binding (pinyin: chanzu, literally 'bound feet') was a custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the first half of 20th century. There is little evidence for the custom prior to the court of the Southern Tang dynasty in Nanjing, which celebrated the fame of its dancing girls, renowned for their tiny feet and beautiful bow shoes. What is clear is that foot binding was first practised among the elite and only in the wealthiest parts of China, which suggests that binding the feet of well-born girls represented their freedom from manual labor and, at the same time, the ability of their husbands to afford wives who did not need to work, who existed solely to serve their men and direct household servants while performing no labor themselves. Bound feet were considered intensely erotic in traditional Chinese culture. Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet. Some men preferred never to see a woman's bound feet, so they were always concealed within tiny 'lotus shoes' and wrappings. Feng Xun is recorded as stating, 'If you remove the shoes and bindings, the aesthetic feeling will be destroyed forever' - an indication that men understood that the symbolic erotic fantasy of bound feet did not correspond to its unpleasant physical reality, which was therefore to be kept hidden. For men, the primary erotic effect was a function of the lotus gait, the tiny steps and swaying walk of a woman whose feet had been bound.

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