BEAUTY

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Beauty
by Jwan M. Al-doski Geospatial Information
Science Research Centre (GIS RC), Faculty of
Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia 
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Foot Binding

• The art of foot binding was practiced in China
  for over 1000 years. This was practiced at first
  only in the upper class but soon spread to every
  social class in China..
• Foot binding began in the late Tang Dynasty (618
  906) and it gradually spread through the upper
  class during the Song Dynasty (960 1297).
  During the Ming period (1368 1644) the custom
  of foot binding was finally outlawed in the 1911
  Revolution of Sun Yat-Sen.

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Process

• ????Started on girls between the ages 5 and 7,
  but was
• occasionally started as early as 3 or 4
  and as late as 9.
• ????Women, mainly the mother or the mother figure
  did the
• actual binding.
• ????A special day was chosen for the first day of
  the binding
• (sometimes the girls birthday but more
  than likely set
• late in the fall or winter, so the foot
  would be numb and
• the pain would not be as severe)
• ????The feet were first soaked in warm water or
  animal blood
• and herbs.
• ????The feet then were sometimes covered in alum
  (to help
• cover the stench of the rotting flesh
  and also to help
• keep the feet dry)
• ????The toenails were cut very short so they did
  not cut into
• the foot as it was being reshaped.

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Reasoning behind foot binding

• ????women were forced to depend on men for
  everything
• ????women could not leave the home, therefore
  they were more of objects of possession and not
  wives to love as another human being, it became a
  symbol of chastity.

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Being Held Back

• This stopped women from having any type of life
  outside of their home. They couldnt walk any
  distances on their feet so they were stuck in
  their houses.

• Any women in the upper class society was banished
  or even killed if they did not have their feet
  bound.

• If a girl did not have bound feet they were
  considered unsuitable for marriage.

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The pain caused was horrible and many times
caused infections like gangrene leaded death.
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This process destroyed childhoods by not letting
children have fun. They were unable to play or
run around because of the excruciating pain that
was caused.
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• These are the shoes of a person with bound feet
  compared to normal size shoes. These shoes called
  lotus shoes or lily shoes were only about 3-4
  inches long and only about 1 ½-2 inches wide.

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Thanks for watching . . . I hope all people
believe that beauty is skin deep.