Featured This Chinese Statue has me stumped

Thank you that is a lovely picture

 

I think you are dead on I found this picture

 

Now here's the strange thing when I search that name Ban Zhao that picture showed up in google images. But when I read about there is no mention of that name. Am I missing something ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admonitions_Scroll

 

Okay thank you I see it now and I clicked on the other link. Thank you for pointing that out for me.

 

Four Books for Women - Ban Zhao
Wikipedia

Her costume curls up, just like your figurine

 

Easing her bound feet under there?

 

Scholars and teachers and scribes were exempt, I hope?!

 

I actually remember seeing something on TV about that some women still do that. That's crazy because it has got to be extremely painful.

 

I don't even understand women wearing pointy toed, 5 inch stiletto heels. Or are those the women you mean?

 

No, it's not crazy! It's super HOT!

No

 

Lol yeah pretty all women wearing silly shoes that are not comfortable. But seriously they were showing this girl wrapping her feet. They were so deformed from it.

 

I don't know if the practice has been modified, & what I think I know comes from a work of fiction, but if the description there was correct, they used to break the bones to get the 'lotus' feet.

 

I don't think they had those back then. She seems to have been quite active anyway, something you couldn't be with bound feet.