The Last Straw Sander In Sandal Village

The village of Li Zhou Village, Siming Mountain Town, Yuyao, was once a very old "straw shoe village". Every household in the village had straw sandals and straw sandals, and it was handed down from generation to generation.

However, with the

Straw sandals sold for 40 yuan a pair.

Thick straw, blue

"40 yuan and one pair."

Uncle Wang worked while he responded to customers' enquiries.

He told reporters that straw shoes in the past is the outfit of poor people, playing straw sandals is the manual work of every villager. "Now it is different. If people wear straw sandals on the streets, they are not taking TV dramas, they are tourists taking photos."

However, for Uncle Wang, wearing straw shoes is no ordinary matter.

Every morning, he goes to the mountains with his own straw sandals to look after his garden. There are dozens of flowers and plants, such as red maple, Begonia, cherry blossoms, and so on, which is his greatest hobby in his later years.

Family history from Xuan Tong

"Sandals feel uncomfortable when they are on their feet. They will only be better after several days."

Uncle Wang said that every time the feet of the new straw shoes were made, they would frothing and grinding their ankles.

But he missed his mother's straw shoes.

The mother will put some cloth on her straw sandals, and her feet will be cool and comfortable, especially in summer.

"Our family started to learn to make straw sandals from my father," he said.

Uncle Wang said that when he was a child, his family was very poor. He could not afford to release his shoes, and his family had 8 brothers and sisters.

These straw sandals are shoes for everyone every year. They wear their own straw sandals for uphill work.

"Old, only one pair a week."

The complete set of tools for straw sandals includes straw shoes, harrow teeth, straw sandals, straw sandals, straw sandals, five wooden shins and a pair of scissors.

In addition, a cloth belt should be attached to the waist of the straw sandal, so that it can be tied to the waist.

"In the past, everyone wore dozens of pairs of straw sandals a year. In the past, there were ancestral straw sandals."

Uncle Wang said, at the same time, he demonstrated: first use his hands to rub the chopsticks so thick and thin, and then look at the length of the feet to make a four string rope for straw sandals.

Then use the straw sandals to repeatedly beat the good straw that is used to prepare the straw sandals, until they become soft.

After the straw shoes are finished, they can not be worn right away. They must first be put on the stones and soft with the straw sandals. Finally, they are then trimmed with scissors.

"When you were young, you could make hundreds of pairs a month. Now your eyes are old, your eyesight is not as good as before, and you can only make one pair in a week."

Uncle Wang sighed with straw sandals.