&Nbsp; Holland'S History And Culture

Wooden shoes, windmills and tulips are also known as the "three treasures" of Holland.

Nowadays, most Dutch people no longer wear wooden shoes. They are more souvenirs for tourists to buy and gifts for locals to visit relatives and friends.

But in the suburb of Zaandam, more than 10 kilometers away from the north of Amsterdam, there is also a small wooden shoe museum to make people savor the history and culture of Holland.

There is a huge wooden shoe at the door of the museum.

It is reported that this wooden shoe, which is about three meters long, is made of a whole piece of wood. The shoe upper is painted yellow and decorated with red stripes, which is known as the world's largest wooden shoe.

And into the museum, a ten meters long side of the aisle, there are hundreds of old wooden shoes on display.

"The most existing

Because wood is difficult to preserve for a long time, and hundreds of years ago, people used to burn old wooden shoes as wood, so it is hard to trace back to the exact age of the origin of wooden shoes.

But the cause of the development of wooden shoes is very clear, that is precisely because of the unique geographical topography of Holland - the country's land area is about 1/4 lower than the sea level, people in low-lying fields farming and stacked embankments and other agricultural industrial production and life, in order to protect the feet, especially toes, designed to make this unique style of wooden shoes.

"The biggest advantage of wooden shoes is safety, which can protect your feet very well," said Kapp, wearing a pair of blue shoes, stepping up his left foot and stepping hard on his right foot to show reporters "especially where the toes are prone to injury."

According to different uses, the Dutch made many different designs and improvements to the wooden shoes.

For example, adding a larger area of rubber pad under the traditional wooden shoes can help people work better in the muddy land. The wooden shoes with high rubber sleeves can protect more places such as feet and legs in the dense area of the grass.

In fact, there are so many classified wooden shoes in Holland.

According to the purpose of work, there are stonework shoes, embankments, wooden shoes, peat wood shoes, earthwork shoes, fishermen's wooden shoes, ice shoes and so on. According to the use of life, there are also special shoe, weekend wooden shoes, bride's wooden shoes and so on.

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Bride shoes

Pointing to a photograph on the wall, he said, "you see, this is a picture of people who wore traditional wedding weddings decades ago, everyone wearing wooden shoes."

In history, wooden shoes once played a unique and important role in the Dutch's love affair.

"If a young man gives his wooden shoes to his sweetheart, it means that the girl is in love with him too."

Many exquisite wooden bride shoes are displayed in the museum. They are decorated with patterns of small roses, stars, magic nees and so on, expressing people's beautiful expectations for love.

"A lot of people think that wooden shoes are very heavy, but they are very light and do not believe you try!" the beautiful blue shoes on the feet of Cape Town put the reporters on very lightly, even with the weight of the sneakers that the journalists used to wear.

"But you can't walk on wooden shoes like usual, but you must hook your feet up and step forward, and your feet will hit the ground first, otherwise hard wooden shoes will hurt your ankles and ankles."

"After all, it's not the past," he said, pointing to a pair of shoes that had been painted in today's standard laced leather shoes. "Even those who like wooden shoes want to make shoes like shoes," suddenly the grey haired old man sighed, "they did it."

In his eyes, there was a faint melancholy.