Grandmother'S Embroidered Shoes With Sheep'S Horn And Feet

My grandmother lived to 92 years old, melon seeds face, a bright silvery silk, her eyes were bright, and the voice came to the ground with a smile. The young men and women called elder brother, elder sister, middle aged uncle, aunt, and younger than her, all of them were called "Gong and Po". They were the most courteous old people in the six villages above and below.

When the grandmother was born, the feudal ideology in the village was very serious. The women had no status. The marriage of men and women was based on the "three inch Golden Lotus boudoir show".

Women's feet are reduced to slaves.

When the girl was five or six years old, she had to "wrap the foot". Her grandmother said the pain of "bag foot" and the tears should go down: "when I was 6 years old, choose a good day, my mother put my feet into the table of the eight immortals table, the foot and waist bridge (foot bow) down to the bottom, forming a horn shape."

Use two feet and five or six inches of "gauze cloth" to tie the feet tightly, and sew them with a needle, so I can't untie them.

My feet are very painful and forced me to walk.

At night, the feet are burning in the quilt.

It took three or four months to see if the foot shape did not change until the foot gauze was washed away.

At that time, it was difficult to walk, walking with crutches. After more than a year, we could walk with crutches.

Walking is always a step in a hurry, and it's very urgent to encounter important things.

Grandma's little feet were "beautiful and thin feet" before and after three villages, which was a comfort to her.

Grandma's needle and thread is one of the best in the village, especially her embroidered embroidered shoes.

She made her own shoes, cut her own patterns, embroidered herself, her feet were like sheep's horn, and her little embroidered shoes were very beautiful.

We take the "official promotion" (formerly measuring rice container) to give the grandmother a try and put it into the "official promotion".

At that time, there was such a custom in the village that a pair of embroidered shoes with fine feet could be put into "official promotion".

Grandma is very particular about embroidering shoes. The embroidered shoes for children are peach blossoms and pear flowers, and flowers and leaves are small.

The embroidered shoes for the old woman are lotus flowers.

If you do "send old shoes", soles are usually soft bottom, but also do lotus, except stems and leaves, bud, flower buds, lotus and so on, there are 12, very good-looking.

There are at least 5 colors, 8 or 12 kinds of silk for shoes.

I have seen grandma embroidered shoes, red flowers, green leaves, very bright, like true lotus on the upper.

When I heard my grandmother was married, Grandpa sent someone to take up the dowry. Grandma put the number of embroidered shoes into the "big disc" and put it on the small eight fairy table and carried it to the outside village. Everyone saw it and said, "this bride's feet and shoes are beautifully done!"

At the age of more than 80, Grandma had become a burden to her when she had seen the scenery for a while. There were several times when she fell down because of her unstable feet, causing her hands and feet to fracture, and the action became more and more inconvenient.

My grandmother left us when she was 92 years old, and her exquisite embroidered shoes were always in our memory.