When I was growing up, I used to meet my grandmother and second grandmother, both of whom were old ladies with small feet. Grandma's family is the third, and the village calls her "third grandmother", because I am a grandson, so I omit "three" when calling her, and call her grandma directly. I was very impressed with the little feet of the grandmothers. Whether it's the second grandmother's chubby feet, the old grandmother's skinny feet, or my grandmother's well-proportioned feet, each pair of small feet exudes a special charm. As a child, I used to wear my grandmother's smallShoesFrolicking and playing outside, grandma always complainedShoesI'm stretched out.
Grandma had to soak it in waterShoes, then scrub with a shoe brush and let it dryShoesIt was restored to its original size. Grandma told me that her little feet began to be wrapped when she was five years old, and that her mother's long strip of cloth was tightly tied to her feet, and she screamed in pain, but her mother never let go. Grandma's family belonged to a "big family", and parents believed that girls had to wrap their feet in order to understand etiquette and sensibleness.
Due to the persecution of her family, my grandmother had to wrap her feet every day and sleep at night. During the first month of foot binding, my grandmother couldn't go out because her feet were tied so that blood could not pass, and they were swollen and painful. Later, my grandmother's feet became numb, but it was still painful to walk, and she could only walk step by step along the kang or the wall. It wasn't until she was a teenager that her feet were completely disabled and formed, and several other toes were bent and atrophied to except for her thumbThe center of the footPlace. When I started paying attention to my grandmother's little feet, those little feet had been disabled for fifty years.
I think Grandma is a very capable and hardworking person. Although her feet are disabled, her hands are very skillful. She spins, twists, weaves, and makes clothes, pants, and socks. Needlework is what she does best, and she always dresses her grandfather up decently and beautifully. I had hoped for oneRagdollsPlaying, grandma used her imagination to make simple cuts with some rag heads, and sewed a beautiful one with needles and threadsRagdolls。I'm doing it myselfRagdollsDraw the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth, and it's always smiling. This is something I rarely had in my childhoodToysOne. When I grew up,RagdollsIt became a favorite of my sisters.
I left home after I went to college and rarely had the opportunity to see my grandmother. But every time I came home, my grandmother always prepared me some hand-knitted sweaters, socks and gloves. She told me that she would sit at the door every morning knitting sweaters and not finish work until dark. Even in winter, she only comes into the house when it's the coldest. She knitted countless pieces of clothing for me and my siblings and never thought anything in return. Grandma can also grind soy milk, steam steamed buns, cook rice, cook, and she can handle all the big and small affairs of the family alone. Because grandma used to be the "third mother", she was respected and admired by the people in the village. Every time I went back to the village, the neighbors would gather around my grandmother to chat and ask about the family.
Grandma's life was full of toil and dedication. Although her feet are disabled, she has never compromised with fate and has always given for her family with her own hands. She used her sweater to make me feel the warmth of home, and her own labor made me understand the meaning of dedication and hard work. Grandma's little feet and her hard work are an indelible mark on my heart and an example of how I try to learn from her Xi.