Note 42 — Chapter III
Reading edition
See A Glossary of Reference on Subjects Connected with the Far East, by H.A. Giles, Shanghai, 1900. "The practice among Chinese women of cramping the feet is said by some to have originated about 970 A. D. with Yao Niang, concubine of the pretender Li Yü. The lady wished to make her feet like the new moon. Others say that it was introduced by Pan Fei, the favourite of the last monarch of the Ch´i dynasty, 501 A. D."