Exotic Shoes Culture: Holland'S Valentine'S Day To Give Wooden Shoes To The Most Favorite

In the eyes of overseas students, Holland

Wooden shoes are made from Holland's unique hard and tread poplar.

Because it is easy to clean, raw materials are cheap, and everywhere, it is not very difficult to process, so the Dutch can almost always make wooden shoes.

Wooden shoes are also the safest protective footwear, because they protect the toes effectively.

Wooden shoes have been in Holland for hundreds of years.

Holland farmers use wood to build a boat like shoe, stuffing straw into their shoes and so on. They can protect the cold from the cold, and are comfortable and durable. Therefore, the wooden shoes have been handed down from generation to generation.

Until now, many farmers and fishermen in Holland still have the habit of wearing wooden shoes.

A good shoemaker is actually a sculptor.

For example, in Holland history, it is said that there is a pair of brothers named Weitz Jerzy Faith whose shoes making skills are superb. No matter what type of foot the customer is, the shoes of his brother always fit perfectly.

The brothers usually use a variety of tools or machinery to do the initial processing, and finally complete the production of shoes by hand.

At present, there are 20 wooden shoe factories in Holland, with an annual output of about 4 million 500 thousand pairs, of which 1/3 are used for practical wear, and the other 2/3 are sold as souvenirs.

Wooden shoes became souvenirs began in the 60s of last century and were produced outside Holland.

Later, with the improvement of the automation of shoemaking process, the cost of production was greatly reduced, and the Dutch eventually began to make wooden shoes for handicrafts.

Today, the practical value of Holland's wooden shoes has been greatly reduced, and few people have worn them.

It's a tourist's favorite. It's a souvenir that must be bought, because the shape of the wooden shoes is very cute. It looks like a small boat, which can be used as decorations and vases.

Even the Dutch would not want to throw it away.

If it comes to "both" and "Ma Gan", the whole city is wearing wooden shoes.

Another important reason is that wooden shoes are essential engagement gifts for Dutch people.

In the "Zaanse Schans", we will see a huge wooden shoes, the wooden shoes are 3 meters long, carved from a block of wood, painted yellow and red two colors outside, the largest wooden shoes in the world.

We are also interested in visiting factories that produce wooden shoes.

Workshop area is small, only more than 20 square meters, there is no machinery and equipment, no process, all hand-made, similar to the original workshop.

While performing, the staff explained the origin, evolution and development of the wooden shoes.

Tourists can also pay to buy the newly made wooden shoes at the scene.

In the absence of machinery, wooden shoes were made by hand.

Don't look at the small wooden shoes, the style is very simple, but it is not easy to make the shoes symmetrical and fit.

If you want to do some tricks on the wooden shoes, you need to work harder.

Therefore, making a pair of exquisite wooden shoes is time-consuming for a week.

Today, mechanical production can produce three pairs in one minute, showing the power of machinery.

In Holland, after the birth of a baby, parents need to prepare a pair of wooden shoes for the baby, so as to say that Dutch people should always be accompanied by wooden shoes.

When a young man in Holland falls in love, he should try to measure his girlfriend's foot shape and size quietly, hand in hand her a pair of wooden shoes, and engrave his girlfriend's name.

When he was married, he gave his wooden shoes as a token of love and put them on his own hands.

Wooden shoes are also gifts for Dutchmen to give to relatives and friends in daily life. If someone gives you a pair of shoes that you can just wear, that means you are his most honorable friend.

Since these shoes are so important, they must work hard.

But because the production of wooden shoes is not easy, when the Dutch are doing primary school, they are instructed by the teacher, and they will grow more experience in the future. Maybe they can make better wooden shoes, so the road of marriage will be much more smooth.

Now, if you visit a family in Holland, you will see a pair of beautifully made wooden shoes in the most conspicuous place in the living room. Needless to say, these wooden shoes are one of the engagement gifts of the year, and they do not reduce the romantic feelings of those years because they are old.

In Holland, there are world-famous wooden shoes Museum, which has the richest and most colorful wooden shoes in the world. All kinds of wooden shoes of various colors are dazzling. The big ones are like a wooden boat that can ride dozens of people, and the small can put 12 pairs in a match box.

The so-called "wooden shoes" have long gone beyond the scope of wood, only from materials, there are dozens of gold, silver, bronze, aluminum alloy, diamond, crystal, jade, jade, agate, plastic, rubber, glass, stone and so on.

There are two other purposes.