Shoe Culture "Go" Into The Museum

China is one of the earliest civilized countries in the world to make shoes. The appearance of shoes appeared on Chinese pottery 5000 years ago in the clans' society. The Huaxia shoe Culture Museum covers an area of more than 800 square meters, which is mainly divided into six parts, including the history of shoe development, shoe folklore, folk shoes, three inch Golden Lotus theme, exquisite display and scene restoration. Among them, the history of the development of shoes includes ancient stage, Shang and Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties, the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, Tang, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the Republic of China until the founding of new China. As the museum commentator said, "the history of shoes can be traced back to ancient times. In the historical exhibition area, it covers all kinds of footwear from ancient times to new China. Visitors can browse the history of the Chinese shoe culture in the six exhibition areas."

In order to match the local characteristics, the exhibition area of Tianjin is specially set up. Tianjin, as an important shoe industry base in the north of China, plays an irreplaceable role in promoting the development of shoes culture. The Huaxia shoe culture museum enables more people to understand the history of the footwear industry of the Chinese nation, and guides and promotes more people and understand the shoe culture through the way of physical presentation and historical description.

Museum Boutique to Shanghai Expo

There are many "baby" features in the exquisite Museum of Huaxia shoe culture museum, such as cheating shoes and dragon shoes. Unlike ordinary shoes, the sole of a cheated shoe appears to be a concave square, which appears to be only a few square centimeters. According to the museum's commentator, "the shoes used in cheating in the imperial examinations are called" entrapped shoes ". The candidates put the pocket edition of the test essay into the sag and cover the insole, and it is not easy to be found in the examination, so they can bring the model into the examination room. Generally, dozens of pages can be stored in shoes, and more than 400 words can be printed on each piece of paper. Through cheating shoes, we can see from the side that the advanced degree of printing technology in China at that time. " In ancient times, in order to pray for unlimited access to heaven, people in court wear shoes and shoes, and the higher the shoes, the higher the status. The collection of shoes with shoes is precious because the ancient emperors' articles will be burned down and rarely preserved. The reason why the Dragon shoes in museums are handed down is that the tomb guards took a pair of shoes out of danger and the value was obvious.

In addition, a group of clay sculpture works showing the eight major handicrafts of the old China shoes were also exhibited in the Tianjin Pavilion of World Expo, Shanghai. In order to welcome the opening of the museum, the exhibition that just attended World Expo was brought back immediately. {page_break}

Shoe culture and folk customs

In ancient times, different stages of life, different places of communication, different wishes, people's shoes were also different, so the styles of shoes were different. The "shoe folklore" part of the museum shows thousands of shoes culture to thousands of shoes: Ping Anfu shoes, spice drawer shoes, step shoes, farm shoes, hand-made embroidered shoes, foot binding shoes, boat shaped shoes, thousand layered shoes, cloud top silk and wooden floor shoes, and so on. These more than 1000 shoes of different periods and shapes, including both ancient relics and later imitations, display folk customs.

The commentator introduced the "three inch Golden Lotus". She said, "many young people have only heard of" three inch Golden Lotus ", but little is known about its specific contents. Therefore, the museum not only introduces the historical background and production materials of the three inch Golden Lotus shoes, but also shows accessory accessories and different styles of provinces and cities. Three inch gold lotus shoes products do not exist alone, but to be equipped with a lot of accessories, mainly including two kinds of silver and silk accessories and metal ornaments, such as leg belt, foot ring and so on. And the product of three inch Golden Lotus shoes in different regions is not the same. In order to let visitors have a macroscopic understanding of the old custom of foot binding, the museum also produced "old area shoe binding display sandbox". In addition to the custom of binding feet, people's habits and customs such as birth, old age, illness, death, marriage and funeral, worship and ancestor worship are all related to shoes. Tiger heads, tiger shoes, children's shoes, farm shoes and longevity shoes for tiger worship do not need to explain ancient people's thinking consciousness and cultural etiquette. In order to introduce the relationship between the evolution of shoes and folklore in the past 100 years, the origin, use and folk custom of all kinds of shoes are described in detail in the wall inside the showcase.

To visit the shoe culture museum, we can not only understand the historical knowledge of shoes, but also see the handicraft show the shoemaking process at the experience area of the museum, and understand the shoe making processes such as the thousand layers of floor, shoes, linen, embroidered shoes and so on. In the museum, sitting behind a long table, holding a lamp, hand scissors, rulers, fiddling with ancient shoes, personally sewing cloth shoes, as if through time and space, do not have a lasting appeal. The museum opens every Wednesday and Saturday. You might as well go with your family to appreciate the Chinese shoes culture in the millennium.