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The Story Behind the Beauty by Breaking Women’s Feet
The average size of a woman’s feet in the UK is 9.6 inches and the size of a foot-bound Chinese woman is less than 3 inches.
We all are parts of various cultures that either we were brought up in or adopted later in our lives by getting inspired. Cultures are beautiful but like the two sides of a coin, they have their bad aspects too. They can pave your pathway to your destination so that you don't face any unnecessary hurdles and they can even make your life miserable and in some cases — lame and immobile.
This was the life spent by 80% of the women in China who moulded their foot to be lotus-shaped to be considered culturally beautiful and noble by status.
Sun Choi Ngo Chu is a 95-year-old woman who is one of the very few unknown survivors of foot-binding culture. Her mother bound her foot when she was only seven years old. The procedure is as painful as anything painful can be. The mother would crush the bones of the little girls and then bind them in a bandage so that the bones would form their lotus shape.
Sun Choi Ngo Chu kept her foot bound like that after marriage as well but her husband didn't care about this beauty ritual and she herself wasn't interested in doing any mobile…
