Tang Shoes Of Chinese Cloth Shoes Are Facing A Lost Dilemma.

A pair of polished "Nike" and "ADI" sneakers are popular among young people. Some of the hand-made shoes handed down by older generations are being forgotten. "Tang shoes" is one of them.

Yesterday, reporters in Liwan District, Guangzhou, Zhou Men street, a more than seventy old craftsman Liang Guangze, over 50 years of shoemaking experience has made it the only remaining handicraft of "Tang shoe" craftsman in Guangzhou. In the early years, Liang Bo began to worry that the craft of shoemaking would not be lost in the near future.

The old Xiguan people in Guangzhou may remember that there was a famous old shop, Baoan Zhai Tang shoes, on Baohua Road, 49. The shoes of this shoe store were all hand sewn, not only exquisite workmanship, but also very comfortable to wear.

Liang Guangze, the owner, was also known as the "Tang shoe king".

However, along with the relocation and pformation of the old city area, "foot safety Zhai" has disappeared for a while.

After many twists and turns, yesterday afternoon, the reporter finally visited the famous "Tang shoe king" at room 304, 148, Zhou Men street.

Tang shoes

    過程從原料到成品需5個小時

Liang Guangze is 70 years old this year. Although he is in his prime, he is very hearty and talkative.

The most noticeable living room in the small living room is the finished products of several black Tang shoes on the table. The soles of the shoes are clearly printed with a few hot stamping characters of "foot safety Zhai".

Liang Bo said that he did "Uncle shoes" and the northern popular "old Beijing" cloth shoes are also cloth shoes, but the northern cloth shoes soles are white, and plastic or cloth "nano", and the South mainly uses dark rubber soles, "taking into account the wet weather in the south often rains."

Seeing the reporter is very interested in the production of Tang shoes, Liang Bobian introduced a process together: first, according to the number of feet, cut the selected tyre into sole and grind it on the grinding wheel; in order to prevent slipping from rainy weather, we should use the shovel cone to shovel out the linear pattern on the sole.

If it is calculated from raw materials, it can be made after 5 hours of continuous work, but "every process is careless."

Speaking of the original shoe making situation, Liang bo used "forced by life" to describe it.

My brother used to be an apprentice in shoe store and learn to make shoes.

In the mid 40s of last century, it was just the era when Tang shoes became more and more popular. Liang Bo's brother chipped together to open a shoe store in Baohua road and named it "foot safety Zhai".

Liang Bo recalled that in the 60s of last century, leather shoes suddenly sprung up, which greatly damaged the sales of Tang shoes. At that time, many shoe shops under the nine roads changed their faces to introduce machines to produce leather shoes, and most of them insisted on making Tang shoes. However, most of them had gone down because of their age and skills, but "foot Ann Zhai" was thriving in Guangzhou's Tang shoes production industry.

    如今沒生意依舊堅持制鞋

Liang Bo said that there are mainly three kinds of people wearing such shoes: martial arts; secondly, performers, Cantonese Opera veteran or lion dance players. When Macao returned to Macao, the lion dance team specially invited Liang master to produce more than 10 pairs of shoes for the performance of the return day, and then there were old overseas Chinese.

From the beginning of the year, Liang Bo moved to a house on the 148 gate of Zhou Men street and sold the finished shoes as a luxury.

"One thing is that the place has been changed several times, and people do not know. Two," Tang shoes "is really not popular.

Liang Bo said that since the Spring Festival this year, no one has come to order or buy "Tang shoes".

"I may be the only one in the country who insists on making hand-made Tang shoes."

Liang Bo sighed.

Although no one came to book shoes to buy shoes, Liang Bo still insisted on making shoes. He said that once he stopped, his craft would be rusty. What worries him most is that no one is willing to learn how to make Tang shoes now.