Foot Binding Part 3: Economic, Cultural, and Societal Impact
Chinese families recognized that their underage daughters possessed an ability to produce significant income for their family and instead of treating their daughters with respect, families instead recognized that if their daughters could be kept producing for longer periods of time, even against their will, the family would gain economically.
Foot Binding Part 2: Energetic and Epigenetic Impact
Explicit and deliberate dispersal of Qi that will usher in death is a malicious act. When a mother binds a girl’s feet, she is breaking the energy flow network and preventing the energy from gathering in the girl’s body. Thus she is dispersing or isolating it, which invites death.
Foot Binding Part 1: History, Anatomy, and Physical Impact
On a physiological level, foot binding is hugely counterproductive to a girl’s physical development, not just because it causes her excruciating pain, but also because the process of bone remodeling actively steals or hogs biological resources and energy required to properly develop a girl into a woman.