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Chapter 570 Abolition of foot binding!

Song Huizong had never issued such an imperial edict, and he didn't know how to write it for a while.

Li Yan next to him was ashamed.

This is how to teach His Majesty how to write imperial edicts!

Not kidding.

That is to say, Wu Zhi has great prestige, and others dare not say anything.

Wu Zhi smiled and said: "Your Majesty, if you want to liberate women, you must do these few things."

"Say it, I will remember it!"

"The first one is to let the women of the Song Dynasty unbind their feet. This is a bad habit that restrains women and makes them have no status. The most important thing is that women with small feet are not easy to work!"

"In the future, whoever dares to bind the feet of his descendants will be a felony and be sentenced to exile."

"Whoever refuses to correct after repeated admonitions and forces people to bind their feet shall be sentenced to death."

Song Huizong nodded: "This is fine, men don't need to bind their feet, but women do.

I don't think there's anything nice about bound feet.Some women's feet are bound so people can't look directly at them, I agree. "

Wu Zhi laughed again: "Besides, if you want to improve the status of women, you need to have corresponding laws. Many families rely on their elder status to privately punish women. This is not a good point.

If someone beats a woman in the future, he will be sentenced to exile, and if it is serious, he will be sentenced to death directly! "

Song Huizong also nodded. She has three thousand beauties in the harem and thinks that women are weak animals and should not be beaten.

Of course, those aggressive and unreasonable ones are another matter.

But anyway, as long as the woman doesn't strike first, she won't want to hit someone.

Song Huizong: "I also agree with this. Women are inherently weak and should be given fair protection!"

"However, what if a woman wants to hit a man?"

Song Huizong suddenly thought of it.

"If it is a woman who hits first, she will be sentenced according to the severity of the injury, ranging from three to ten years. If it is a serious injury, she will be directly exiled or sentenced to death. It is the same in this regard!"

"Yes!" Song Huizong agreed.

Wu Zhi continued: "The last point is to encourage women to work and join all walks of life to enjoy the same treatment as men, and they should not be rejected on the grounds that they are women."

"Also, because women can have children, this is also a very important thing. If they want to conceive, they should have fixed holidays, which is also a guarantee for the continued protection of the descendants of the Song Dynasty, so that they can produce more children as labor force .”

Wu Zhi said a series of things.

Song Huizong thought of the benefits brought by the liberation of women, so naturally he did not refute and agreed.

"Okay, I'm up to you."

Song Huizong recruited people from Zhongshu Province to draft the imperial edict.

Wu Zhi participated in the details of the imperial decree.

Soon, the decree came out.

Roughly speaking, the reform of the new law in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the cheongsam driven by various industries have aroused considerable repercussions in the Central Plains.

That's an excuse.

Everyone in the Song Dynasty knew that the cheongsam came out, and it did have a great impact on various places.

Then use this as an excuse to liberate women, saying that women promoted the industrial and economic development of the Song Dynasty, starting with the cheongsam, allowing women all over the world to make greater contributions to the Song Dynasty, so they were liberated.

They can be allowed to go out to work, and they can get wages like men, or make clothes, or weave, or embroider and so on.

Women are also given certain maternity benefits.

And let the women in the world no longer have to bind their feet.

Forcibly binding feet is punishable by death.

Because women are weak, traveling women cannot be beaten by local men at will. Anyone who violates them will be imprisoned and exiled, and the death penalty will be the most serious.

To liberate women, it is natural to give these women certain guarantees.

Laws are already being strictly enforced and promulgated.

The second is to encourage women to come out to make their own contributions to all walks of life, create value, and make them more dignified. Women all over the world should take this responsibility, and officials from all over the world must strictly implement and cooperate, otherwise they will be severely punished... ..."

As soon as the imperial decree was issued, it caused a lot of discussion and shock all over the Song Dynasty.

In front of the notice around the city, men, women and children, from the princes and nobles to the common people were all stunned.

This is no small matter!

The men were shocked and felt that the times had changed.

The women were also stunned when they heard the news!

Even some little girls are very excited, why?

Because they don't have to bind their feet anymore.

Binding feet is a very painful thing, which is not something ordinary people can bear.

It scares women.

Some little girls who were binding their feet, with the help of their families, untied the cloth strips on their feet, and suddenly showed happy smiles.

There are many records about foot binding in history.

It is said that the concubine of the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Ji Niang, was beautiful and talented, and was good at singing and dancing.

Therefore, Li Houzhu specially made a six-foot-high golden lotus, decorated it with jeweled silk ribbons, and ordered her to bind her feet with silk, so that her slender feet bent up into a crescent shape, and then she put on plain socks and danced on the lotus platform. more graceful.

Afterwards, women in the Southern Tang Palace began to learn how to bind their feet, and it gradually spread to the people.

However, the foot binding in the Song Dynasty is different from the three-inch golden lotus in later generations.

In the Song Dynasty, foot binding was to wrap the feet straight but not bowed. At that time, it was called fast riding, and the shoes used were called wrong to the end.But this kind of bound foot is not as small as the bound foot of later generations.

After Mongols ruled the Central Plains and established the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolian women were not allowed to bind their feet, but the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty did not object to or even supported Han people's footbinding.

With the development of the custom of foot binding, by the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the concept of not being ashamed of foot binding had appeared.

The bound feet also became smaller and smaller.

In the Ming Dynasty, foot binding not only became smaller and smaller, but also had certain requirements. For example, women's feet must not only be small, but also be reduced to three inches, and the shape must be bowed, wrapped in the shape of a corner millet, and so on.

Why did the ancients bind their feet?
It is mainly due to the imprisonment of feudal ideology and the maintenance of men's dominance over women.

In short, not to mention women, even if a man asks you to bind your feet with things, it will feel painful if you don't untie them for a long time.

After the women of the Song Dynasty heard about this incident, many women cried, saying that it would have been better if this national policy had been implemented earlier.

"Liberate women, I remember this word, we women finally don't have to bind our feet!"

"Yes, Your Majesty is the Holy King!"

"I heard that Prime Minister Wu proposed this matter!"

"Really? Prime Minister Wu really cares about us women! My daughter doesn't have to bind her feet anymore... How pitiful!"

The women of Song Dynasty called.

The women were happy with this decree, but many officials or men of status did not agree.

There are even complaints.

Because women have been men's playthings since ancient times, if women are liberated, how will their rights as men be reflected?

All the women in the world go out and make money on their own, so it's not a big deal?

Aren't men unable to suppress women?

Many powerful men quit, they yelled and resisted.

There are even many scholar-bureaucrats desperately submitting papers.

When it was time to go to court, many civil and military officials stood up and accused the matter of being too hasty.

Without even discussing with them, the imperial decree was issued directly!

They are protesting!
(End of this chapter)