Chapter 570: Foot binding abolishes!

Song Huizong really never issued such an imperial edict and did not know how to write documents for a while.

Li Yan next to him was ashamed.

This is how to write an imperial edict!

It's not a joke.

In other words, Wu Zhi has great prestige and no one dares to say anything.

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

"Tell me, I will write it down!"

"The first point is to let women in the Song Dynasty remove foot binding. This is a bad habit that binds women and makes them lose their status. The most important thing is that women with small feet are not easy to work!"

"In the future, if anyone dares to bind his descendants, he will be a serious crime and sentenced to exile."

"If someone fails to change his mind and forces someone to bind his feet, he will be sentenced to death."

Song Huizong nodded: "This is OK. Men don't need to bind their feet, but women want this.

I don’t think foot binding looks good. Some women’s feet are unable to look directly after they are wrapped, and I agree.”

Wu Zhi smiled again and said, "In addition, if you want to improve the status of women, you must have corresponding laws. Many families rely on their elders to punish women without any hesitation. This is not allowed.

If someone beats a woman in the future and sentences her to exile, the serious ones will be directly sentenced to death!”

Song Huizong also nodded. She had a harem of 3,000 beauties, thinking that women were weak animals and should not be beaten.

Of course, those bold and unreasonable things are a different matter.

But in any case, as long as the woman doesn't do it first, she won't be hit.

Song Huizong: "I also agree that women are naturally weak and should be given a certain degree of fair protection!"

"But what if a woman wants to hit a man?"

Song Huizong suddenly thought.

"If a woman is beaten first, she will be sentenced to the crime according to her injuries, ranging from three to ten years. If she is seriously injured, she will be exiled directly or executed, it will be the same in this regard!"

"Yeah!" Song Huizong agreed.

Wu Zhi continued: "The last point is to encourage women to work, join all walks of life and enjoy equal treatment with men, and they must not refuse to accept it on the grounds of being a woman."

"Also, women can have children, which is also a very important thing. If they want to have pregnancy and childbirth, they should have a fixed holiday, which is also a guarantee for the people of the descendants of the Song Dynasty, allowing them to produce more people as labor."

Wu Zhi said a series of contents.

When Song Huizong thought of the benefits of liberating women, he naturally did not refute them and agreed.

"Okay, I follow you all these."

Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty asked people from the Secretariat to draft an imperial edict.

The details of the imperial edict were also involved in Wu Zhi.

Soon, the imperial edict came out.

The general meaning is that the new laws reform of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and the cheongsam driven by various industries have caused considerable responses in the Central Plains.

This is an excuse.

Everyone in the Song Dynasty knew that the cheongsam was launched, which did have a great impact on various places.

Then, on this reason, liberated women, saying that women promoted the industrial and economic development of the Song Dynasty, and started with cheongsam, allowing women all over the world to make greater contributions to the Song Dynasty, so they were liberated.

They can go out to work, get wages like men, make clothes, weave cloth, or embroidery, etc.

She also gave women certain maternity leave benefits.

And let women all over the world not have to bind their feet.

If you forcibly bind your feet, you can be punished with death.

Because women are weak, women traveling cannot be beaten by local men at will. If there is any offense, they will be exiled at the least, and the worst will be sentenced to death.

To liberate women, we must naturally give these women certain protection.

The law has been strictly enforced and published.

Secondly, it is to encourage women to come out and make their own contributions to all walks of life, create value, and make them more dignified. Women in the world should take this as a responsibility, and officials from all over the country must strictly implement it and cooperate, otherwise they will be severely punished and not loaned..."

Once the imperial edict was issued, it caused a lot of discussion and shock throughout the Song Dynasty.

In front of the city notice, men, women, young and old, from the royal relatives and nobles to the common people were shocked.

This is not a trivial matter!

The men were shocked when they heard this and felt that the times had changed.

The women were stunned when they heard the news!

Even some little girls are very excited, why?

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

Foot binding is a very painful thing, and it is not something that ordinary people can bear.

It makes women very scared.

Some little girls who were bound feet unbuttoned the cloth strips on their feet with the help of their family and immediately smiled happily.

There are many records in history about foot binding.

It is said that the concubine of the late emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty was beautiful and talented, and could sing and dance.

Therefore, Li Houzhu specially made six-foot-high golden lotus, decorated it with jewelry and silk ribbons, and ordered the girl to wrap her feet with silk, make her feet small and crescent-shaped, and then put on plain socks to dance on the lotus platform to make the dance posture more graceful.

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

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

In the Song Dynasty, foot binding was wrapped tightly but not bent. It was called quickly getting on the horse at that time, and the shoes used were called wrong to the end. However, this kind of foot binding was not as small as the foot binding of later generations.

After Mongolia entered 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 oppose or even support the Han people's foot binding.

With the development of foot binding customs, by the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the concept of not binding feet had already appeared.

The foot binding is getting smaller and smaller.

In the Ming Dynasty, the foot wrapping was not only smaller and smaller, but also certain requirements. For example, women's feet should not only be small, but also shrink to three inches, and also have to be bowed, and wrap into the shape of a horn-shaped millet.

Why did the ancients bind their feet?

It is mainly due to the confinement of feudal ideas and the maintenance of men's dominance over women.

In short, not to mention women, even a man who asks you to wrap your feet with things, and if you don’t reveal them for a long time, you will feel very painful.

After hearing about this, many women in the Song Dynasty cried, saying that it would have been better if this national policy had been earlier.

"I remember the word "liberate women". We women finally don't need to bind our feet!"

"Yes, Your Majesty is the Holy Lord!"

"I heard it was Wu Xiang's suggestion!"

"Really? Wu Xiang still really cares about us women! My daughter doesn't need to bind her feet anymore... It's so pitiful!"

The women of the Song Dynasty called.

The women were happy about this imperial edict, but many officials or men with status did not agree with it.

There are even many complaints.

Because women have been men's playthings since ancient times, if women are liberated, how should the rights of these men be reflected?

Won't it be so great that all women in the world can make money by themselves?

Aren’t men unable to suppress women?

Many powerful men quit, they shouted and yelled and resisted.

Many scholars and officials even tried their best to submit memorials.

When I was in court this day, many civil and military officials stood up to accuse this matter of being too hasty.

Without discussing with them, they issued an imperial edict directly!

They are protesting!
Chapter completed!