The millennium-old custom of binding Chinese women’s feet 1 has all but totally faded into the past . Most people have only heard tales of this practice, as very few women with bound feet are still alive. Yet there still exists one well-known village where many women with bound feet live. In Beijiao Village in Fujian Province, there are over 20 elderly women, most in their 80s, all having three-inch lotus feet.
According to China’s Shenzhen Press Group, Beijiao Village, an isolated coastal village located in Tailu Town, Fuzhou City, is the last village of women with bound feet in Fujian and in all of China.
An elderly woman binds her feet in a long strip of silk cloth. Getty Images
