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Chinese Foot bonding

  • Period: Dec 3, 700 to Dec 3, 750

    The Golden Age

    During this time period the Tang Dynasty was known for their art and in this period their creation techniques are still used today
  • Period: Dec 3, 1127 to Dec 3, 1271

    Southern Song Dynasty

    The Southern Dynasty Ruled China
  • Dec 3, 1245

    Bankrupt!

    The Dynasty went bankrupt
  • Period: Dec 3, 1271 to Dec 3, 1386

    Yuan Dynasty

    The Yuan Dynasty was the powerful Dynasty
  • Dec 3, 1375

    Forced Labor

    The Ming Dynasty starting forcing labor on peasants so they could build the Great Wall of China
  • Period: Dec 3, 1386 to

    Ming Dynasty

    The Ming Dynasty used feet bonding from 1386 to 1644
  • Bejing

    Bejing is captured by the foreingers
  • Period: to

    The Change

    Foreingers come into China and stop doing feet bonding because it is not their beleif to do it
  • Foot-Bonding Aid

    The first foot-bonidng aid come. They are British
  • Feet Bonding is Banned

    Feet Bonding is offically banded in China. But, girls still want the status symbol and secretly bond their feet
  • Book

    The time period the book was in
  • Fines

    In 1915 a fine for bonding girls feet was enforced
  • She meets her future husband

    Ailin wants to get married so her parents find the boy for her and they get engaged at the age of 7
  • She Goes to a Public School

    Ailin's Dad sends her to a public school because she keeps asking him to do that.
  • Her father dies

    Ailin's father dies and "Big Uncle" becomes head of the house
  • Ailin is kicked out

    Ailin's Big Uncle is now ahead of the family because the grandmother dies. Since Alilin's feet arent bound she cant find a husband. So her Big Uncle gives her options but she doesnt take any of them. Since she didnt choose any options she is kicked out of the family
  • Ailin

    Since Ailin is moving to America she breaks her engagment with Hanwei
  • Ailin Moves

  • Ailin Falls in Love

    On a boat on her way to California Ailin meets a guy on the boat and falls in love with him
  • Ailin runs a store

    Ailin runs a store with the guy she falls in love with
  • Hanwei comes back

    Hanwei comes back to Ailin and tries to blame things on his mom but, Ailin refuses to take him back and says she is struggling but she is happy
  • Offically Stops

    Even though feet bonding has been banned for 48 years... the girls still do it. But, in 1950 all girls stopped bonding their feet
  • Last Shoes Are Made

    Last Shoes Are Made
    The last shoes made for bonded feet are made. The last company to make them was in Harbin, China
  • Song Dynasty comes up with feet bonding

    Song Dynasty comes up with feet bonding
    The fable says that they made the young girls have their feet bond because of a famous dancer who had her feet bonded.
  • Foot Bonding Begins

    Foot Bonding Begins
    The Latter Tang Dynasty beings the practice of foot bonding
    BC!!
  • The Chinese Government Grew

    The Song Dynasty maily focused on their economy and because of this they made new trade routes
  • The Chinese Government grew weak

    After the Golden Age the government started growing weak
  • The Military Grew Weak

    The Song Dynasty had a very inefficent military because it was designed primarly to not threaten imperail control
  • Period: to

    Tang Dynasty

    The Tang Dynasty was in charge or the "big shots"
  • Period: to Dec 3, 1127

    Northern Song Dynasty

    The Song Dynasty was in control