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Chapter 122 The bride jumps over the fire basin! So red and hot!

A few days later, Zhou Yue followed the Red Army and came to a town.

In this town, she witnessed another wedding, which was the second wedding she had seen since she came to this era.

Unlike the last Yi wedding, this one was a very authentic Chinese wedding.

"Sister, why is this different from what I saw in the village when I was a child?"

My younger brother Zhou Xing stretched his neck and looked at the wedding procession, his face full of curiosity and excitement.

When he was a child in the village, he had seen folk weddings.

It was not particularly grand, just a few rural banquets, some suona music, a few kowtows and that was it.

And this wedding in the town was really grand.

The wedding procession was very long, carrying a bright red sedan chair, and even the bearers were dressed in festive red.

On the road, there were villagers who stopped to watch and couldn't help but marvel at the grand scene of the wedding.

"This Wang's wedding is really different! The ceremony is so grand!"

"His family has made a lot of money running the restaurant over the years, so he has to show off his wealth!"

"The man's family is the owner of the restaurant, Wang. Who is the woman's family?"

"How come you don't even know this? She's Mr. Su's granddaughter!"

Zhou Yue stood in the crowd, listening to everyone's gossip and conversation, and soon learned some details of the wedding.

The reason why this wedding was so grand was because the man’s family was quite wealthy in this town.

The man opened a large restaurant. His business has been good over the years and he has made a lot of money.

Although the girl's family is not wealthy, the villagers feel that they are completely worthy of the Wang family.

The girl’s grandfather was a scholar in this town.

However, more than ten years ago, the original dynasty had collapsed, and scholars became products of the old era.

However, in the eyes of these villagers, the scholar is still a very remarkable person.

After all, there are very few literate people in this town, let alone those who can pass the examination to become a scholar.

In the past, everyone had to pay land taxes, but after passing the imperial examination, one’s family could be exempt from taxes.

Although this old scholar's family was not well off and he looked a little down and out.

But if you tell others about it, everyone will think that they are from a family of scholars. Maybe this is also the reason why Manager Wang chose the girl from the Su family.

Zhou Yue followed the crowd and came to the mansion of Manager Wang.

Standing outside the courtyard and watching this wedding, I have to say that Chinese aesthetics is truly amazing.

There are bright red lights and decorations everywhere, which looks very festive.

The bridal sedan is also decorated very beautifully. Chinese weddings are different from Western weddings, and only Chinese people can appreciate the taste of it.

"The bride is getting out of the sedan chair!"

The wedding master of ceremonies shouted at the side, and in the atmosphere of loud gongs and drums, the bride was supported and slowly got out of the sedan chair.

A man in his 30s, wearing a red Chinese wedding suit, stood in a row with the bride.

The villagers were all cheering nearby, and the noise of their joy could be heard from far away.

"Can the bride see the road clearly with her veil on?"

Zhou Xing looked at the bride's back with a worried look on his face.

The bride was very thin, as if she were a fragile willow. She was supported by an old woman as she walked forward.

With a red cloth covering my head, it was difficult to see the road clearly.

"The bride jumps over the fire basin! So red and fiery!"

The bride, supported by the old woman, began to step over a pot of charcoal fire.

When he was crossing over the fire basin, he somehow lost his balance and almost fell into it.

The old woman who was supporting the bride rolled her eyes and held the bride's arm tightly with her hands.

For some reason, Zhou Yue always felt that the bride's walking posture was strange.

When walking, the steps are too small and each step does not cover much distance.

Even with the support of the old woman, he still walked very slowly.

Zhou Yue originally thought that it was because the daughter of a scholarly family paid attention to her manners, but later she felt more and more strange.

Zhou Yue was just about to turn around and ask Sister Xiuhua if she had noticed that the bride was walking a little strangely.

After turning around, she found that Sister Xiuhua, who was originally in high spirits, now had a complicated expression on her face and her brows were tightly furrowed.

"Sister Xiuhua, what's wrong with you?"

Lin Xiuhua lowered her eyes and sighed, then whispered in Zhou Yue's ear.

"Ayue, have you noticed? This bride also has bound feet."

When the bride got out of the sedan chair, Lin Xiuhua felt something was wrong with her feet.

After careful observation, it was discovered that it was indeed foot binding.

Lin Xiuhua is a modern-age woman who has received an education. What she hates most is foot binding, a feudal custom that oppresses women!

When she was young, her aunts and uncles also urged her to bind her feet.

Fortunately, her parents were not cruel enough to bind her feet.

She didn't dare to think that if her feet were bound, she would have to stay at home every day and would not be able to go out at all, just like a bird trapped in a cage.

Then following the Red Army on the Long March would have become a fantasy, and one's ideals and ambitions would have been strangled.

"Foot binding?" Zhou Yue widened her eyes, somewhat incredulous.

Then his eyes were fixed on the bride's feet.

Although the distance was a bit far at this time, she opened her eyes wide and tried hard to see.

I really noticed that the bride’s feet were very different!

Occasionally, a bride's feet would be visible beneath her wedding dress.

The embroidered shoes are extremely exquisite, but the feet are obviously abnormally small. Such small feet are not something an adult can have.

Zhou Yue found it a little unbelievable and her heart skipped a beat.

She has never seen foot binding in modern society, but she has seen it in history textbooks and pictures on the Internet.

Zhou Yue felt physically uncomfortable after just one look at the pictures of foot binding.

All the toes were broken off and stepped on the soles of the feet, causing the shape of the feet to become severely deformed.

After foot binding, every step taken is like walking on the edge of a knife, which is a heart-wrenching feeling.

She finally understood why it was so difficult for the bride to even step over the fire basin.

Zhou Yue sighed helplessly. In her eyes, this grand wedding also became a little desolate.

Such a woman is trapped in a large mansion, and perhaps she will waste her whole life here.

It may be difficult for her to see the beautiful scenery and thousands of beautiful views all over China again.

Zhou Yue's mood was no longer as happy as before. After watching them get married, she went back to the camp with her brother and sister Xiuhua.

[Tongzi, why do people still bind their feet nowadays? ]

Zhou Yue remembered the historical materials she had read before, which showed that in the 1910s, Mr. Sun Yat-sen issued some slogans to abolish foot binding.

From then on, everyone realized that foot binding was a bad custom.

People cut off their braids and stopped binding their feet, gradually moving away from their original feudal culture.

She originally thought that since it was already the 30s, the bad custom of foot binding should no longer exist.

The system's voice also sounded somewhat helpless at this time.

[Sister Yueyue, it has been abolished in some places, but in these remote areas, the bad custom of foot binding is still widely practiced.]

Zhou Yue felt extremely distressed for the women of this era.

In this era, the New China had not yet been established, and gender equality was simply impossible.

At that time, women were just appendages of men. They could not go to school and had to bind their feet. They had no choice in many things.

Before going to bed at night, Zhou Yue thought a lot.

She was eager to rescue these poor and innocent women.

But in the context of this era, there are so many such things that she doesn't know where to start.

Just as she was dozing off, the system's voice rang in her mind.

[Sister Yueyue! Something bad has happened! ]