缠足是中国古代社会妇女独有的习俗,不分地域,不分贫富贵贱,妇女都缠足,俗称"裹小脚"。如今在云南嵩明县阿古龙村任有缠足现象。本文结合社会学、美学、历史学相关学科探讨云南嵩明县阿古龙村的妇女缠足文化和缠足对妇女的影响,最后从"小脚之美"方面来谈缠足审美观。

The binding feet is unique custom of society women in ancient China, regardless of region, rich and poor, women all binding foot, commonly known as"bound feet". Now binding foot phenomenon in Yunnan Songming county Agulong village. In this paper, combining sociology, aesthetics, history related disciplines of Yunnan Songming County Agulong village women''s foot binding culture, and finally from the"beauty of small foot"to talk about footbinding aesthetic.

缠足是中国特有的一种社会历史现象,是摧残妇女身心健康、违反人道的陈规陋习,曾经对中国历史和中国社会产生过重大影响。缠足起源于五代,发展于两宋,鼎盛于明清,取缔于民国。古人对小脚极为欣赏,有十八种、九品之分类。缠足之所以流行,主要是由性爱需要、控制女性、保持贞节、文人癖好等原因造成。缠足之所以被取缔,主要是因为缠足对女性身心健康造成了巨大摧残,此乃时代发展之必然。

Foot-binding was a unique social historical phenomenon in China and this outmoded inhumane cus-tom destroyed women′s physical and mental health .It had made a significant impact on the Chinese history and society .Foot-binding could be traced back to Five Dynasties and it developed in Song Dynasty ,flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties and was banned in the Chinese republic .The ancients loved bound feet ,which can be classified into many kinds .Its popularity resulted from sexual needs ,control of women ,keeping chas-tity and quirks of literati .The clampdown of foot -binding was an inevitable developing tendency of the times because it destroyed women′s physical and mental health.

近代初期,来华传教士们出于加快传播基督福音的目的,开始对缠足等中国传统女性道德观展开批判与重构。随后以康梁为代表的维新派在运用天赋人权等思想观察、分析、批判中国妇女问题时,清晰地论证了传统缠足陋俗逐渐解体的历史必然性。近代中国戒缠足思想在辛亥时期趋于成熟,一方面是国人追求真理的理性选择,同时也是近代先进之士坚持对缠足恶习进行批判的必然结果。

At the beginning of modern China , foreign missionaries begin to criticize and reconstruct the foot -binding and other traditional Chinese moral idea about woman for the purpose to accelerate the spreading of Christ .Some pioneers in modern China , such as Mr .Kang Youwei and Mr .LiangQichao discussed the issues of Chinese women , clearly demonstrated the inevitability of traditional foot-binding custom being gradually disintegrated .The thoughts of quitting foot -binding has achieved a common reor-ganization in the Xinhai Revolution ., which is taken as a rational choice and also the inevitable result of the criticism of social elites.

中国女子缠足是一种变态“美”，妇女缠足的历史是一部漫长的血泪史。缠足无论从心理还是生理上，都给妇女带来严重的折磨与摧残。抗战时期，民族危机加深，社会矛盾异常尖锐，加之新的社会思潮的影响，广大妇女自身解放和参加社会事务的要求日益强烈。为此，在包括陇东地区在内的陕甘宁革命根据地，掀起了一场以“放足＂为契机的妇女解放运动。通过边区政府的领导及蔡畅等人的积极组织和践行，取得了显著成效。放足运动的成功开展，使广大妇女从身体和思想上得到了解放，很快成为一支抗战事业的重要力量，并为民族解放做出了积极的贡献。

Chinese women''s footbinding is a kind of abnormal beauty which went back over a thousand years and was full of women''s tears and blood .Foot-binding brought unprecedented damage to women mentally and physical-ly.As the national crisis grew more serious and the social contradictions became increasingly acute during the peri -od of Anti-Japanese War , most of women , influenced by the new thoughts of society , took a more and more active part in the self-liberation and public affairs .And as a result ,"Liberating Feet"as the turning point of the women''s liberation movement was launched in Shaanxi -Gansu-Ningxia Revolutionary Base including Longdong District ( Eastern Gansu ) .The movement achieved demonstrable results under the leadership of the Border Area Govern-ment and Cai Chang et al .It enabled the oppressed women to get free mentally and physically .And these women soon made themselves an very important force for the Anti -Japanese War and made a positive contribution

戊戌维新时期，樊锥和维新派都提出了维新变法思想。他们维新变法思想的相同点包括：都大声疾呼变法维新；都主张兴民权，设议院，实行宪政；都主张大力发展近代民族工业，重视发展科学技术；都主张改革科举制度，重视培养人才；都主张改革社会陋习，禁止吸食鸦片和女性缠足。然而，维新派的维新变法思想还包括进化论思想、法治思想、“三权分立”思想、自由思想、“地方自立”思想、重商思想、妇女解放思想、大同思想等，对此，樊锥没有明确的提出。

During the Reform Movement, both Fan Zhui and the reformists raised the issues of reform, and their reform thoughts had a lot in common. They both advocated political reforms, civil rights, setting the House, and a constitutional government;they both advocated developing modern national industry and attached great importance to science and technology;they both advocated reforming the imperial examination system and attached great importance to the talent training;they both advocated reforming bad social habits, and prohibiting opium smoking and female foot-binding. However, the re-formists proposed more ideas which were not clearly put forward by Fan Zhui such as theory of evolution, the idea of “rule of law”,“separation of three powers”, the idea of freedom, “local self-reliance” ideology, mercantilist view, women’s liberation, Datong thoughts, and so on.