Traditional Chinese Wedding Customs Related To Shoes Culture

In traditional Chinese wedding custom, shoes are a mascot. This is a symbolic folklore produced by the two pairs of shoes and the homophones of "shoes" and "Xie".

There are also gifts for marriage; there is a necessity for getting married; there are congratulations on being happy.

　　“大婚禮鞋”繡花鞋

Embroidered shoes embroidered theme comes from life, the main melody is folk culture and folk customs, the basic cases include flowers and birds, grass and insects, birds and beasts, claw pedicle flowers and fruits, mountain scenery, drama characters, etc.

Auspicious cases include Reo Takako, a hundred pears, two butterfly flowers, and dragon flying dance, which symbolizes the praise of life and a happy life.

After preliminary investigation, more than 20 Ethnic Minorities in China regard embroidered shoes as the national dress characteristics, and call them "Chinese shoes".

The legend of Jin Guo shoes circulated in southern Shanxi.

In the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, Jin was originally a small country. Jin Xian became a ruler after he became a prince. He expanded his territory and swallowed up ten princes and small states in one fell swoop.

In order for the common people to remember him forever, he ordered all the women's vamp on the palace to be embroidered with ten kinds of flower and fruit patterns, such as pomegranate flowers, peach blossoms, fingered citron, grapes, and so on. At the same time, it was ordered that the "ten fruit shoes" embroidered with the pattern should be used as wedding shoes for the nationally civilian women to marry.

At that time, the embroidered shoes of this pattern were called "Jin Guo shoes".

Since then, the embroidery technology of Jin State has been extended to embroidered clothes and other articles with embroidered shoes.

Coincidentally, there are similar legends of "ten fruit shoes" in tracing the whereabouts of embroidered shoes in ethnic minority areas: the Baoan people who live in the Dahe area of Jishishan, Gansu Province, still retain the national tradition of wearing embroidered shoes. This ancient poem art "flower", which is handed down in this ethnic area, is sung like "green satin and vamp slanting,"

GA Mei is peony I pick up, brother is green leaves. "

　　與鞋有關(guān)的婚俗

　　欖子鞋

Maonan people, young men and women, feel good about each other. On the night of the moon, they invite each other to the flower yard to talk about each other's heart and love their affection. They call it "sitting on the night". As long as the two sides are willing to make a hundred years of good luck, they will give each other token when they are sitting at night.

Girls generally give young men a pair of "olive shoes", that is, with the sole of the white line to form a group of square cloth shoes.

A young man usually gives the girl a "flower bamboo hat", giving each other token to represent two people who have entrusted their lifelong happiness to each other.

　　年鞋

Shoes play a role in linking up the feelings of young men and women in the mud race.

Under normal circumstances, the Mu nationality girl secretly measured the size of her lover's feet in the "walking slope" activity, sewed according to the size of the fine needle thread, made the shoes and made them steamed for more than ten minutes, then dried them, and gave them to him as a token of affection when they met with their lovers.

Because the gift is the same age, so this shoe is commonly known as "the same year shoes".

    花屐

The folk customs of the Jing nationality are more interesting.

After the love between men and women, the man asked the matchmaker to send a self made love silk and a colorful wooden clogs with flowers into the woman's house.

The girl also took out a flower crow from the girl's room.

If the two sides match the right and left sides of the crow, this is a natural match for the lover; if it does not match, it means that there is no relationship between lovers.

When the clog is paired, it is called a gift box, which is called "send flowers and clog".

    絲麻鞋

In the northern part of the Han Dynasty, when the Han nationality was married, men had to send silk shoes to the ladies' families to take auspicious harmony, and they would never be separated from each other.

At the same time, silk shoes also include new women wearing silk shoes and sedan chairs. They use silk and flax to be tough and harmonious.

So as a gift for marriage, shoes also contain auspicious harmony.

　　偕鞋

When the family of Wuhu in Anhui prepares their own wedding for their daughter, they will each pair a pair of shoes for the bride and bridegroom.

The locals also put the bride's shoes in the shoes of the groom.

When the bride gets married, she brings her shoes to her husband's home.

In Hefei, on the wedding day, when the bride enters a bridal chamber, she exchanges shoes with the groom. The bride and groom wear each other's shoes, "homing shoes" and "homing" homophones.

    蹈婿鞋

The "Dao son-in-law shoes" of the Han nationality in the south of the Yangtze River is the ceremony for the bride to enter the sedan chair for the first time to enter the husband's house. That is to say, the bridal sedan chair must be replaced by the shoes of the groom, so it is also called "stepping shoes".

"Shoes" harmonics.

Symbolize the meaning of "old age".

　　換腳鞋

When the Naxi people do their wedding in Lijiang, they welcome the bride to the house, and the bride first gives her parents a pair of shoes.

At the entrance to the bridal chamber, the woman delivered a pair of shoes to the bridegroom and threw them to the bottom of the new bed, forcing the bridegroom to bend over to the bottom of the bed to remove the shoes and then pull them on.

This shoe is called "changing shoes", and it also takes the meaning of husband and wife.

    搶新娘鞋

In the civil society, there is another saying that wearing bride shoes to worship the heaven and earth will bring auspicious benefits to the husband's family, and then gradually evolve into an activity in making new houses.

For example, in Anhui, Huizhou and other areas, girls marry and their wives make shoes for brides.

Before the bride did not worship the heaven and earth, she always tried to get the bride's shoes, forcing the bridegroom to change their shoes with happy cigarettes and wedding sweets, so that everyone could laugh.

There are many ways, such as Qian County folk, "take off" shoes people hesitate to climb over mountains and mountains, rather than staying up all night in the bride's way to the husband's family, so as to seize the opportunity to rob shoes.

Xiuning County folk, in the bride's bridal sedan into the mother's house, take the bridegroom to the bride from the back of the chair, the house owner deliberately crowded before squeezing, the bride is not ready to take off the shoes.

Because the bride's feet were taboo, the bridegroom had always carried her on her back.

　　解懷脫鞋

In the Haizhou area of Jiangsu, there are also wedding customs to solve the problem.

When the couple went into the bridal chamber and the delivery room was withdrawn, the groom released a button for the bride, commonly known as "Huai Huai" (also known as "happy").

It is commonly known as women who begin to have children.

After the solution, the bridegroom sits on the edge of the bed, and the bride takes off shoes and socks for the bridegroom. It is commonly known as "take off boots" to show respect for her husband and to take care of her husband's life for life.

The bride wears tiger shoes. What is more interesting is the custom of wearing tiger shoes in Chongming Island.

On the island, when a woman gets married, she must wear a pair of tiger shoes.