From Dorothy Ko, Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (Toronto: The Bata Shoe Museum; distributed by the University of California Press, 2001), p. 36:

"Ensemble of Daoist goddesses crossing a bridge that spans a lotus pond. . . . Procession of Immortals Paying Homage to the Primordial. . . . "

Context: the point here is that origins of footbinding are located in dance forms that developed at the end of the Tang dynasty to give poetic images visual form.

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