Zhang Guolao, The Inventor Of Straw Sandals

According to folklore, the grass shoes on people's feet were originally made by Zhang Guo, one of the eight immortals. The straw sandals made by him are both bottomed and noodles, but the grass shoes worn by people later have no bottom.

Legend has it that Zhang Guo Lao is a poor man. He brought cattle to the financial masters and then worked as a long-term worker. Zhang Guo Lao was prematurely aged by overwork. When he looked at Zhang Guo, he could not work hard, so he gave him a thin old donkey and drove him out of his house.

Zhang Guo was so helpless that he had to take the old donkey every day and go up the mountain to fight for the day. His bare feet were often brunched by thorns, and the pain was unbearable. He had to bind the straw on his feet, but he could not walk a few steps, and the straw loosed. Later, he used straw to be woven like a woven cloth, and he was bound to his feet straight and straight, but it was not strong enough. After many experiments and improvements, he finally came up with a method of twisting straw into straw and making sandals. You can wrap the whole foot here. It's strong and comfortable.

Later, the rich man learned that Zhang Guo had this skill and wanted to use it for himself. make money Zhang can't go into his house any longer. In a rage, the vicious rich man knocked him unconscious with a walking stick.

Zhang Guo, too old, was bedridden. He passed nearby. Straw sandals All the farmers came to visit him. He realized that he could not live for a few days, and he decided to pass on his skills to a young man named ten thousand years. I hope he will teach thousands of peasants again, so that they will not suffer from barefoot later. But when he was taught to finish the grass sole, Zhang Guo unfortunately went up to heaven, and the young man could not learn to make straw vamp.

This is the reason why people wear grass shoes later.