LOTUS FEET OF CHINESE WOMEN

AN ELDERLY CHINESE WOMAN SHOWING HER LOTUS FOOT
THE SPECIAL FOOT WEAR FOR WOMEN WITH LOTUS FEET


The Chinese custom of binding feet of girls is some 1000 years old.According to a Chinese legend this custom developed after TANG DYNASTY EMPEROR who was in love with a concubine .The concubine used to wrap her tiny feet in silk when she danced. In China the girls feet were bound so tightly & early in life that they were unable to dance & had difficulty in walking .By the time the girl is 3 years old her toes were first broken & her feet were bound tightly with cloth strips to prevent the feet to grow larger than 10 Cms due to this extremely painful practice the soles of feet bend in extreme concavity.The feet formed due to this custom is known as Lotus Feet.
Foot binding ceased in 20th century due to increasing western influence , however in remote mountainous region of China women still had their feet bound .Today in China very few elderly women have Lotus foot.

SKULL GAME DURING NEW YEAR FESTIVAL

In Bengal Baisakh is the first month of the year & Pohela or Poila Baisakh is the first day of the first month .On Poila Baisakh the Bengali's celebrate their NEW YEAR.It is the most auspicious day in Bengal & people prefer to marry , inaugurate ,buy new property on this day.People also renew their account books.Bengali's enjoy the day by wearing new attires & decorating their houses with flowers & rangolis.

The villagers of Sona Palasi in West Bengal celebrate their Poila Baisakh by parading & dancing on the beats of drums, carrying along with them unearthed human skulls & dead bodies of human babies. The villagers call this event as Narmundo Khela or Skull Game.The villagers claim that their heads dig the grave to get the dead bodies.The villagers perform this ritual to please Lord Shiva.

The procession carried out by the villagers is very horrifying but personally I feel that by carrying corpse of babies & skull no God is pleased it is just a way to please one's own self . Thus mal practices are carried out in the name of God.