Lotus feet Tradition: Standard of beauty or a barbaric act
To increase beauty or enhance marriage eligibility, Lotus feet tradition scared lives for a millennium. We hope you never experience the pain and suffering Chinese women had to go through in the past.
Beauty is really cruel in nature. From wearing corsets in Victorian era to genital mutilation in Africa, it always been a horrible experience for women. Another painful example is Foot binding tradition in China. It lasted for almost 1000 years. Started in 10th Century under Song Dynasty because king loved one of his ballerina's feet. Dancer wrapped her feet in a way that it looked like a blooming lotus. It decorated with intricate embroidery and stones. After watching that king ordered girls in his kingdom to wrap their feet like this. He called this custom as lotus feet or special shoes...