5+Dynasty+Era

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 * the bizarre and disturbing custom of binding the feet of women began, an affectation, as with the long fingernails of the Mandarin bureaucrats, to display one's freedom from physical labor.
 * The north was continually ravaged by warfare during this time as they were attacked time and time again by the Khitans and Turks.
 * The 60 years of the five dynasty were a time of endless political and military fights
 * the fights disturbed the growth of their economy
 * the fighting also damaged the peasant population
 * many monks were forced to leave the monostaries.