Ning Lao Tai-Tai Research Paper

Ning Lao Tai-tai started her life as the youngest child of three, the fifth child bore, in the village of P’englai. The village of P’englai sat on the Yellow sea, on the peninsula of Shantung, it sat facing Korea. P’englai stands on a rocky hill by the sea, facing Manchuria, on the peninsula of Shantung province which reaches out into the Yellow Sea toward Korea. Its walls climb and sink with the rocky ridges which stretch to the east and west and south (Pruitt, 5).

From a young age Ning Lao Tai-tai was a very active young girl, so her feet were not officially bound until she was seven years old. Foot binding originated in Imperial China around the tenth-eleventh century. As her older sister, Ning Lao Tai-tai got married when she was fifteen, to a man older than her. Ning Lao Tai-tai gives birth to a total of four children, three living to adulthood, two daughters and a son. Ning Lao Tai-tai resembled her grandfather, in regards to their square faces. Ning Lao Tai-tai lived as a daughter, a wife, a concubine, a mother, and a servant. Throughout her life she worked, she was homeless, and she was feeble.
I climbed trees, and hanging by the rope from the windlass I would let myself down into the well. I would put my toes into the cracks between the bricks that lined it. My mother did not know that I did this. She would have been frightened had she had known. There was nothing that I did not dare to do. I was the baby and my parents favored me (Pruitt,