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Shoe Culture: Chinese People'S "Spring And Autumn"

2011/8/8 10:59:00 33

In the book of changes written in the book of changes written more than 3000 years ago, the word "shoe" representing shoes has appeared.

Sun Bin, a soldier of the Warring States period, had broken the kneecap and was unable to walk because he was spoiled. He used hard leather to cut into "bottom" and "Gang".

boots

Son, the Museum of Chinese history has a collection of leather more than 2000 years ago.

Later, as shoes were made of materials, styles and uses, the types of shoes began to enrich.

According to the different materials, shoes can be divided into three types: straw, cloth and leather.

Among them, cloth shoes refer to shoes made of hemp, silk, silk, brocade and other fabrics.

The Han Dynasty was mostly bifurcated, and the bottom was knitted with hemp thread, also called double pointed warped head square shoes. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the two animals were embroidered on the front of shoes.

In the Northern Qi Dynasty,

Clogs

Become a kind of

fashion

It is a shoe with wooden teeth, made up of three parts: flat, line and tooth.

Made of leather, cotton felt, etc.

leather shoes

Leather boots, also known as "riding boots" or "high boots", are worn by nomadic people in the north. They include dry boots, flower boots, leather boots, felt boots, single boots, cotton boots, cloud top boots, goose top boots and so on.

According to legend, Sun Bin is the ancestor of boots, which was widely spread in the north and South during the northern and Southern Dynasties and spread to the south of the Yangtze River until the Tang Dynasty.

Leather shoes were also popular in the Song Dynasty. Men wore small leather shoes. Women had round heads, flat heads or head curling. They also decorated all kinds of flower and bird patterns.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, women's cloth shoes with high toe and flat shoes began to appear.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the method of making shoes gradually merged with styles, and became more and more sophisticated.

Most of the shoes in the Ming Dynasty were thick and thick, and the North wore more rhombohedral shoes.

In the Manchu rule period of the Qing Dynasty, men's shoes were mainly made of pointed shoes, and they were made of satin in summer and autumn, and used to build velvet in winter. They had thick bottom and thin bottom. They were used as single beams or double beams.

The women's shoes in Qing Dynasty were the most distinctive. The soles were mostly wooden, ranging from one inch to five inches. The bottom was wide and round, and was called "horseshoe bottom", also called "flower pot bottom".

The vamp is often made of silk and embroidered with multicolored embroidery, and some aristocratic women are also inlaid with various jewels on their vamp.

But because of the inconvenience of walking, elderly women or people with low status wear wooden flat shoes.