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Foot Binding in a Poem Setting
When the story was supposed to have taken place, like the actual poem setting, fifth and sixth century, there was no foot binding. But by the time that the play and the novel were out, girls had their feet bound to denote their high-class noble families. "It's a symbol that if she doesn't have it, they're going to be like, wait, did I miss something? Did I fall asleep?"