Visualization of centuries-old horror

Leg bandaging is a custom practiced in China (especially in the aristocratic environment) from the beginning of X to the beginning of XX century. A thin strip of cloth girls tied to the foot all the toes except the big one, and forced to constantly walk in shoes very small size, making their feet significantly deformed, sometimes making it impossible to walk in the future. Such legs were traditionally called "Golden lotuses". You will not believe, until for many centuries from size feet depended on prestige bride's, to the same it was thought, that belonging to high society lady should not walk on their own. This "impotence", inability to move without assistance was one of the incredibly attractive features of the aristocratic woman: for some reason, healthy legs were associated only with peasant labor and "vile origin". Under the rule of the Mongol yuan dynasty and the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, small feet also became a symbol of national identity and "civilization", since the Mongols and Manchus women legs were not bandaged. And they did not want to adopt this "aristocratic tradition". There are a lot of legends why this tradition arose, but they are all boring, and, as historians prove, have no relation to reality. In fact, most likely, it was based on the desire to make women helpless stay-at-home and thus remove them from active life. That is, on the one hand to make marriage chaste simply because of the inability of women to change, and on the other – to bind a woman to a man, because without it she just can not live. The ban on bandaging could push only the Communists and now it is impossible to find a model for bandaged legs. All shoes only-Lotus removed. And the saddest thing is that everyone admires them. The last person to film several sessions of women with broken legs was British photographer Joe Farrell. Born and living in Hong Kong. Actually, he is the only professional photographer who caught the last bandaged, managed to remove them. And I think what he did is very important. Because no matter how much they say, but just looking at these women, you can understand how terrible was what was done to them.