Il legame del piede (pinyin: Chanzu, letteralmente 'piedi legati') era un costume praticato su ragazze e donne per circa mille anni in Cina, a partire dal 10th secolo e terminando nella prima metà del 20th secolo. Ci sono poche prove per la consuetudine prima della corte della dinastia Tang meridionale a Nanjing, che ha celebrato la fama delle sue ragazze danzanti, rinomato per i loro piedi piccoli e belle scarpe di prua. Ciò che è chiaro è che il legame al piede è stato praticato per la prima volta tra le élite e solo nelle parti più ricche della Cina, il che suggerisce che il legame i piedi delle ragazze ben nate re

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• Data acquisizione: 9 aprile 2015
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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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• 1900
• asia
• asiatiche
• bound feet
• chanzu
• cina imperiale
• cinese
• cixi
• dinastia qing
• donna
• donne nella storia
• empress dowager
• fasciatura dei piedi
• femmina
• foot binding
• fotografare
• imperatrice
• la moda
• la regina
• mandato del cielo
• mati xie
• monarchia
• piede di loto
• quing
• royalness
• ruler
• scarpa per zoccoli di cavallo
• stile
• tzu-hsi
• women
• xianfeng