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Embroidered shoes are
Chinese nation
original
handicrafts
This is rooted in
National culture
The daily necessities in the world are known as "Chinese shoes".
- Chinese name
- Embroidered shoes
- alias
- Chinese shoes
- categorize
- Traditional dress
catalogue
The leading Chinese embroidered shoes in
Chinese nation
On the ancient earth ever since
Matriarchal society
Convert into
Patriarchal society
after
[1]
Will form a male ploughing and female weaving
Social division of labor
Generations of women from generation to generation inherit the ancient embroidery shoe skills, in the surplus
Square chi
On the shoe material, they tell the story of the various dynasties
Aesthetic concept
,
Cultural tradition
,
Ethics and morality
With fashion value.
The embroidery modification of embroidered shoes follows the aesthetic fashion of Oriental decoration, paying attention to the rules of the upper, and the spread of the upper, and with the craft trim of the shoe mouth and sole.
Apply colored silk thread from toe to toe
heel
Even the soles and insole are embroidered with elaborate patterns. The theme of embroidered shoe embroidery comes from life, and the main theme is
Folk culture
And folk customs, the basic ginseng case has flowers and birds
Grass and insect
Birds and animals, fruits and flowers of PAWS,
Mountains and rivers
Dramatic characters, etc. Auspicious reference cases have lotus birth, pomegranate open hundred, double butterfly love flowers, dragon flying Phoenix dance, etc., meaning the hymn of life and a happy life.
Widely spread in Shanxi
The south of Shanxi
's"
State Jin
The legend of the shoe may give us some insight. Two thousand six hundred years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the State of Jin, then located in Shanxi, was a small country in 660 BC
Duke Xian of Jin
After he became the king, he tried his best to expand the territory, annexed ten vassals and small countries in one fell swoop, and began to claim hegemony. In order to let the people of the country always remember his literary and martial arts skills, he ordered all women in the palace to have their shoes embroidered
Pomegranate flower
,
Peach blossom
, Buddha hand,
Grapes
Such as the ten kinds of flowers and flowers patterns, but also ordered the civilian women in the country must be married with this pattern of "ten fruit shoes" as big
Wedding shoes
So that generations will not forget the Jin Xian Gong's Herculean record. At that time, the embroidered women's shoes with this pattern were called "Jin shoes".
Since then, the embroidery process of the State of Jin has been extended to embroidered shoes and embroidered clothes and other articles. Three hundred years later, that is, 313 BC, the great ancient Chinese philosopher
Xunzi
Born in the hometown of embroidered shoes. Xunzi attached great importance to the local embroidery industry, and an article in his famous book Xunzi records its popularization
Iron needle
The embroidery process of embroidery, and praised the embroidery needle from the perspective of a philosopher, that iron needles can not only embroider on shoes but also "cover the people below and decorate the emperor", and contribute to social and economic prosperity and stability. Until modern times of the region
Silk weaving
With the reputation of embroidery, local women from childhood began to embroider on shoes career, they do not leave the door, two doors do not step, with more than ten years of time for marriage to embroider shoes, the girl's pure love needle and thread embroidered to the upper, to express the loyalty of love, the pursuit of happiness. The historical change has made the production of embroidered shoes and the level of embroidery a local evaluation of a girl's dexterity
prerequisite
. They from their own wedding day to the child's one-month old, from the family's birthday to the old man's death, all life events with a pair of embroidered shoes to show their talent, wisdom and
Artistic charm
.
Over 5,000 years ago
Neolithic age
Leather boots have appeared in the historical stage of the Chinese nation, and then with the different times and regions, different materials and styles of footwear have been developed. Like the tip of a shoe sticking up
Cocky boots
The sole is equipped with double teeth and is also tied
shoelace
the
clogs
It is limited to the lagoons worn during hajj and sacrifice, and the height is in
ankle
Made of leather above
jackboot
. But also because of the variety of materials and styles, so since ancient times there are many called shoes, such as
Foot coat
Shoes, clogs, boots, lagoons, etc. refer to shoes.
May Fourth Movement
later
Because the embroidered shoes are made of expensive silk upper, and then embroidered with silk flowers and birds and other patterns, they belong to the patent products of rich wives and daughters. In Shanghai, ladies come and go
Social occasion
Frequent, no matter how beautiful, thus created the emergence of embroidered shoes professional street, Beijing, Shanghai and other places have more than 100 professional workshops, and the window display of embroidered shoes colorful, the streets dotted like flowers in full bloom.
In the 1940s, dignitaries were still the dominant group of people who wore embroidered shoes,
Service mode
Take custom, that is, measure the size of the customer's foot, and choose the color and color by the customer
Embroidery pattern
After that, the first person to draw the pattern, and then by the embroiderer women embroider patterns according to the pattern, then cut the pattern, sew it into the upper, and finally cut out the shape of the sole of the leather, padded with layers of cloth, and then sew the upper and sole, is a pair of solid hand-made embroidered shoes.
After this, embroidered shoes were slowly converted into use
Shoe tree
Sell shoes of fixed size; In addition, with plastics and
Super glue
The appearance of the sole changed from leather to cheap plastic bottom, and can be strong glue the upper and sole bonding, saving production hours, the price slowly declining, as long as the beauty of women can wear this light, comfortable and elegant shoes, embroidered shoes became the most popular fashion.
Last century
Middle lobe
By the middle of the last century,
sneakers
,
Casual shoes
And new and trendy
High-heeled shoes
Has become
Gentlemen and ladies
The pursuit of fashion indicators, embroidered shoes industry is facing an existential crisis. The retro style of the 1990s blew up, and the embroidered shoes that have been silent for 20 years, re
Push back
On the popular trend, the formation of goods as long as the shelves sold out of the grand situation. And the industry also sees that embroidery shoes must be innovative in the tradition, in order to seize the heart of young consumers, so the pattern is no longer fixed in flowers and birds, the color is more bold, such as the past taboo black, white and denim fabric is also used in the upper, even the last also appears pointed or square style, and the heel is both flat and high.
In recent years
In recent years, the embroidered shoes industry has fallen to the bottom, when the popular trend will turn to embroidered shoes, no one can say. But with embroiderers hard to find,
Hand embroidery
It has been gradually replaced by electronic embroidery, and it will be more and more difficult to find embroidered shoes with a needle embroidery by hand in the future. To paraphrase one boss: "Except
Old woman
They also know whether embroidery is good or bad, and young people can't tell the difference between electronic embroidery and manual embroidery."
Yes, after a century of rotation, young people may have long been unclear embroidered shoes have been red shoes for more than a thousand years, who will care about the difference between electronic embroidery and hand-embroidered?
1 Because the upper material is cloth, do not use it in rainy days to prevent water immersion.
2 Do not be exposed to the hot sun and fire to prevent discoloration and deformation.
3 Do not touch acid, alkali, oil and other chemicals to prevent contamination and damage to shoes.
4 Dyed cloth, such as boiling water, fire and exposure to the sun will produce a slight fading phenomenon.
5 Suggestions and others
Beautiful shoes
Often change the wear, in order to extend the service life of embroidered shoes.
6 Do not collide with hard objects, scratches, and sharp, sharp things to avoid damage.
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Read micro cottage notes
": When Changji built the city, digging the earth to more than five feet, red silk embroidered shoes, delicate production, not yet all rot. Yu Urumuqi
Miscellaneous poems
Said: "The building of the city dug deep soil, evil Xu called ten thousand pestle sound. Strange sound all eyes, half hook crescent moss flower invasion." Chant this matter also. Why is it not bad when it is buried to more than five feet in the ground and even to the nearest few decades? If the Erut women did not bind their feet, why did they make bows like bows, and why were they only three inches? There must have been a reason. We don't know now.
When Chang Ji was building the city wall, he dug five feet into the ground and got one embroidered lady's shoe made of red silk, which was delicate but not completely rotten. My Urumqi poems say: "Building a city and digging deep earth, evil Xu exhume ten thousand pestle sound." Strange sound all eyes, half hook crescent moss flower invasion." It's a chant about this. Buried to more than five feet, recently also need decades, why not bad? Erut woman no
footbinding
Why can it be curved like a bow, only three inches
scene
? There must be a reason for this, which is not known now.