Cangzhou Retired Cadres Love "Zodiac Shoes"

On the morning of March 8th, in a residential building in Xinhua Road, Cangzhou, Yin Zhi, a 62 year old retired cadre in Cangzhou, opened a box. The reporter could not help but brighten up her eyes: 12 pairs of bright red baby shoes were placed, and each pair of shoes was embroidered with Chinese Zodiac patterns with specific meanings.

Yin Zhihe said that this is the "Twelve auspicious lucky cultural shoes" invented by his son and he has already won 12 patents of the country.

The birth of Chinese Zodiac shoes

In January 2003, Yin Zhi and his retired wife at home, in order to find something to do for themselves, learn from their neighbors to make baby shoes, and set up a stall.

The old companion's action has given Yin Zhi and inspiration: can this little baby shoe dig deeper?

With the deepening of thinking, Yin Zhihe's mind has a blueprint for "Twelve lucky animals and cultural shoes".

After more than half a year's design, with the help of his son and his relatives and friends, Yin Zhihe's "lucky animal shoes of the twelve zodiac" have been successfully published.

In order to solve the beard problem of zodiac animals, Yin Zhi and his family have tried many times, and the bristles, horsetail and down jacket cores have been tried.

Finally, Yin Zhihe's old mother-in-law solved this problem. The old man recommended a silver thread for embroidery.

From February 2005 to August, the "twelve zodiac Culture Shoes" won 12 national patents.

Xiao shoes, the University asked.

For the "Twelve auspicious auspicious culture shoes", Yin Zhi and through the excavation and textual research of the twelve traditional Chinese Zodiac culture, endowed each zodiac with different auspicious propositions.

For example, "rat shoe", the auspicious proposition is "rat newspaper has a good son".

The theme design of the toed shoe is "rat snow". A snowflake is embroidered on the forehead of the mouse. It takes the meaning of "a spring in the spring," which means that the weather is good and the grain is good.

The auxiliary pattern of the left ear is to use the Chinese seal character to embroider a "lamp". Next to it is a little mouse eager to climb up. This is "little mouse on the lampstand". The auxiliary pattern of the right ear is a Chinese character "Jing", with five little mice around it. This is "five rats make Tokyo".

In addition, tiger's life is peaceful, the rabbit is peaceful, the Dragon prayer is all the best, the serpent prayer is forever healthy, the horse relies on the dragon bone, the sheep is filial piety, the monkey is smart and clever, the cock is big, the dog is the best.

Each pair of "Zodiac shoes" has a strong auspicious meaning and interspersed poems, allusions and customs.

Yin Zhi he and his "Zodiac shoes"

Entrepreneurship plan

Yin Zhihe has successively held the leading positions of many departments and colleges in Cangzhou. He said he liked painting and calligraphy and literature when he was young. He also participated in various fairs in addition to appreciating and playing with his twelve lucky lucky cultural shoes.

The surprise of the audience gave him great motivation. He registered the company. Now, the "Twelve lucky lucky cultural shoes" are mainly sold in the market of Beijing and Tianjin.

Yin Zhihe said that his biggest wish now is to hope that his invention can increase the income of more laid-off workers, and enable the empty nesters who are busy with their work to have a good way to embody their own values and loneliness.

In addition, Yin Zhi he also specifically put forward the "520 yuan start business plan", that is, as long as spend 520 yuan can buy 30 pairs of Shaw shoes stall for sale, in the dissemination of traditional culture, but also solve a real problem.