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the chinese restaurant association of the US would like to extend our thanks to the Jewish People. We don not completely understand your dietary customs… But we are proud and grateful that your god insist that you eat our food on Christmas
it was a time honored tradition. a long time ago in china it was a show of beauty.
from wikipedia.
Multiple theories attempt to explain the origin of foot binding: from the desire to emulate the naturally tiny feet of a favored concubine of a prince, to a story of an empress who had club-like feet, which became viewed as a desirable fashion. However, there is little strong textual evidence for the custom prior to the court of the Southern Tang dynasty in Nanjing, which celebrated the fame of its dancing girls, renowned for their tiny feet and beautiful bow shoes. What is clear is that foot binding was first practised among the elite and only in the wealthiest parts of China, which suggests that binding the feet of well-born girls represented their freedom from manual labor and, at the same time, the ability of their husbands to afford wives who did not need to work, who existed solely to serve their men and direct household servants while performing no labor themselves. The economic and social attractions of such women may well have translated into sexual desirability among elite menbelow is the horror.
Made by taking prefabricated materials this pavilion was constructed in a day. the time-laspse doesn’t get interesting until around 2 minutes in. you should check it out altogether though.
credit to inhabitat
Timelapse Construction Video of 2010 Shanghai World Expo Broad Pavilion from Broad on Vimeo.
