#culturestr

My great-grandmother lived to 91 years old, so I had a chance to experience the old culture of China.

She had binded feet because that was considered attractive of a woman. Actually, it was a status symbol as well. Only girls from well-off families could afford to do that because girls from poor families who had to work to help support their families wouldn't have functioned well on those little man-made deformed feet.

Whether a woman had binded feet then also became a criteria of her marria-bility.

P.S. Men actually did find these binded feet attractive. How could that be? You got me!! Because look it up, but prep yourself, they look like pig feet!

P.S.S. This takes #footstr to another level!!