Quotes from 'Citizens' magazine

   

Tiny shoes for tiny feet!

The shoes are known as Chinese Lotus Shoes, made by Mary Chung-Gon.

 

Photographed by her grand-daughter Ai-Lin Piccini (nee Chung-Gon)

on a visit to the Queen Victoria Museum in January 2015.

As the Chinese character wan (卐 and/or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the Chinese character is itself a symbol of immortality and infinity. It was also a representation of longevity.