High Heeled Shoes &Nbsp; Symbol Of Ancient Identity.

09, 28, 1980s, the movie "burning Old Summer Palace" is hot. On TV, you can see the wonderful chapter of the film. High-heeled shoes What does it look like? Look at Ci Xi's shoes - all the shoes are high heels, and ancient ones. shoes It's the middle height...

Later I learned that in ancient China, not only women wore high heels, but men also wore them. Gao Cun High heels. But the "clogs" were made of wood, not as high as Ci Xi wore, but rather high at both ends. Xie Lingyun, a poet of the Jin Dynasty, invented a famous "Xie Gong Cun". Each shoe had its own front and back teeth (that is, shoe heels). It was a kind of special climbing shoes. It went up the mountain to its front teeth, went down the hill to the rear teeth, and walked on the slope where it was on the ground. Xinjiang has unearthed an ancient "high crow" with three wooden teeth on its sole, and the whole shoe looks like a three legged stool.

Wearing two stools on the street is hard enough for our predecessors.

Why did the ancients wear high heels? There must be some aesthetic considerations, but I think more should be for hygiene. Ancient high officials travel, pay attention to "loess pad Road, clean water splashing street." The reason is that the road condition was too bad at that time. In his book of late Qing Dynasty, British Timothy Timothy said: "in the 678 month, when the rainy season comes, the roads are flooded with water and dust mixed to form an impossible marsh. The traffic on the road has been interrupted. In the past three months, business has generally stopped. All of the funds are locked in the cabinet without any profits, causing huge economic losses to China. "

When I was a child, I lived in the countryside. I was very impressed by the so-called "dirt road". It was windy all over the earth, and it rained all the way. And the shoes they wear are made at home. The sole of the shoe is made by the old woman, but it will wear thin or even wear for a long time. Walking on a sunny day, walking on the road, walking on the road in rainy days, the sole of the cloth is soon dripping, wet and sticky, and how uncomfortable it is to feel uncomfortable. If you step on a piece of mud or dog shit, you can't wipe it off clean, and quickly spread from the sole to the upper. I often thought that it would be nice if the heels were thicker.

Having a pair of solid, invincible fire shoes has once become a dream of my life.

In ancient farming society, commodity consciousness was not strong, and shoes were mainly made by their own families. When faced with the situation I encountered, the grass-roots class could only endure as I did, and with a sense of petty bourgeois consciousness, he would think of himself. High coffer is one of the options. It can be imagined that high heeled shoes are definitely uncomfortable, but clean. Step on the water inlet, shake it off, feet will not be wet, step on the mud, rub on the ground and then fall off, do not worry about wet shoe upper.

In comparison with cleanliness and comfort, people with status generally prefer to be clean; therefore, those who wear high heels in ancient times should be people of status.