Symbolism Of Foot Binning

When I hear the word foot binding, the first thing I think of is pain and bondage. Foot binding is the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep their feet as small as possible. Foot binding began in the Shang Dynasty about 1500-1000 B.C. This custom became popular during the Ming Ch’ing eras after 1368. The process of foot binding began at the age of five. Mothers were breaking their daughter’s feet in order for them to marry a good husband. According to the principles of Yan and Ying. Society is unaware of this practice or has only heard of it. Foot binding is socially significant because this practice was considered in order to preserve a woman’s chastity. This practice was later abolished in 1911. The binding of feet was a symbol of beauty in the Chinese culture. Foot Binding leads to women being treated as inferior because they are forced to deform themselves in order to marry a good man. I believe that women should not be seen as inferior. Women should be treated equally. In society now a woman is still seen as inferior. I have noticed that women still get paid less in jobs. In other cultures, the woman is seen as an object or a slave. For instance, foot binding made a man feel dominant. John …show more content…
“…. Symbolic of woman’s secondary status was her bridal night: she expected to be deflowered by a stranger, a husband selected by her family whom she had never seen before.” (287). To demonstrate women’s inferiority, they were to be married off to a stranger without a choice of who they should marry. Having women is useless in some cultures they would kill the child before they were born if they found out it was a girl. They believe that by having a girl they would just be a burden for them. So they would marry off their children at an early age, which they now become a property of the husband and his