Footbinding"A thousand buckets of tears for one who binds her feet"What is Footbinding?In the world, there are various customs which represent the respective nation’s own culture. We need to respect other country’s culture, but something is unacceptable thing. Food binding was one of the kinds of things, an old Chinese custom in which women’s feet were tightly bound to make them abnormally small. "There are a thousand buckets of tears for one who binds her feet" Like this old saying it was a cruel practice which showed vividly the tragic of women at that time. Besides it implied various ideologies, politics, and social hidden intention which women were considered as human being without rights by the authority of men. Therefore we think of it as not only an inhuman act, but also try to find the hidden points swept under the rug. This essay will look into the tearful history of women endured all agonies of the past in great detail by looking through the origin of Footbinding, the cause oas a beautiful and virtuous princess whose feet, however, resembled those of birds, and who therefore kept them wrapped up. The ladies of the court followed her example; which, of course soon became general.Cause of the lasting FootbindingChinese women lived a life of agony because of Footbinding. Why did this painful practice last and become a general thing for a long time? Many scholars would offer a variety of explanations of the cause of the lasting Footbinding. A dominant reason was a hybrid between the social climate and men’s distorted sexual desire. China's women did not realize their independent personality because they lived a long time under the ideology that Men were dignity and women were humble and demanding rule of 'samjongsadeok'. Besides men had desire to make women as sex object and keep the women in a constant dependence. So, men forced women to bind their feet and women were willing to make their feet small and proudly regarded it in order to please men. The few girreated by breaking the arch during the original binding process. This crevice was sometimes treated like a second vagina in lovemaking. Like this, men think of women as not human being, something that makes them pleased. By using their superior social position men forced women to conform to this inhuman custom and it made footbinding last for a long time.SeclusionFootbinding had been designed to keep women in their place. Juan Gonzalesz de Mendoza, in his 1586 portrait of China based on Spanish and Portuguese visitors’ accounts had stated that “the lameness of their feet” helps keep women virtuously at home, and that Footbinding had been invented by men for that purpose. It is like a political design, in order to keep the women in a constant dependence. Certainly a good way of keeping them at home was to make it very troublesome and painful to them to gad abroad. The Footbinding custom was used as a way for men to keep women completely helpless. Every walking movement was filled with p of it shame to have big foot and try to follow trend. In other words, women’s idea that thinks of Footbinding as the standard of beauty could be the reason of the lasting Footbinding.The way to increase women’s childbirth abilityChinese believed that Footbinding caused Women's body and physiological changes and it brought the effect to increase women’s childbirth ability. After Footbinding, feet were deformed and whole weight was concentrated to their feet when women walk. In other words, after the forefoot women walk in heels. Because of it, Every time women walk they wave their hips. With lasting this process for a long time, it brought the development of women’s hip and pelvic those were important parts of giving a birth. Chinese people wanted to have a healthy and wise child in order to succeed to their line. Thus with this belief Footbinding had lasted for about 1000 yearsAnti-Footbinding movementAnti-Footbinding began to emerge In the Qing period although it was weak and vanishehe anti-Footbinding movement had not fully cared of women who had tiny feet. It meant that the way of the abolition of Footbinding was a little bit chaotic and unfair. The campaigns either infantilized or humiliated them by exposing their bodies to ridicule or inspection in public. The humiliation did not stem from abuses or imperfect execution, but was embedded in the culture of national shame that produced the urgency to unbind feet in the first place. Furthermore, the tactic of the campaigns is inherently paradoxical: the spectacle of female suffering, which provoked people to change their thinking and behavior, accentuated the association of femaleness with passivity and victimhood. Narratives of female suffering conferred power onto those who publicized them, be they male nationalist reformers or urban educated women, who occupied a male subject position. One woman’s pride and freedom was predicated on another woman’s shame and bondage.ConclusionFrom this essay we looked into the 08