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The practice started declining due to Christian missionaries in the 1800s. The Boxer Rebellion kicked that rate of decline up a notch. By the time it was officially outlawed under the CCP, it was practiced by a tiny minority of the population, and was wholesale banned in Taiwan.

Some of the orgs from that time were hilarious in retrospect. The Heavenly Foot Society sounds like a meme group made up by Quentin Tarantino and Dan Schneider.