Chinese Embroidered Shoes

In the footwear family, the Chinese embroidered shoes perfectly integrated with the embroidery art are the original handicrafts of the Chinese nation. This kind of practical products rooted in the national culture is known as "Chinese shoes" by the world.

Since the transformation from matriarchal society to paternal society in the ancient Chinese land, the social division of labor between men and women has been formed. Successive generations of women inherit the ancient embroidered techniques, and on the shoe material of the square feet, they speak of the aesthetic concepts, cultural traditions, ethics and fashion values of various dynasties.

The embroidery and embroidery techniques of embroidered shoes follow the aesthetic fashion of Oriental decoration, focusing on the rules of shoe upper and the presentation of upper, and with the decoration of shoes and sole. The colorful silk thread is embroidered with gorgeous patterns from toe to heel, even sole and insole. Embroidered shoes embroidered theme comes from life, the main melody is folk culture and folk customs, the basic cases include flowers and birds, grass and insects, birds and beasts, claw pedicle flowers and fruits, mountain scenery, drama characters, etc. Auspicious cases include Reo Takako, a hundred pears, two butterfly flowers, and dragon flying dance, which symbolizes the praise of life and a happy life.

When and where did the embroidered shoes originate all over the river? The legend of "Jin Guo shoes" widely spread in southern Shanxi may give us some enlightenment. Two thousand and six hundred years ago, during the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, Shanxi was a small country. It was a small country in Jin Dynasty. In the six hundred and sixty BC, when Jin Xian became a prince, he worked hard to expand the territory, and annexed ten princes and small Kingdoms in one fell swoop. In order to make the people of the whole country always remember his martial arts skills, he ordered all the women's shoes on the palace to be embroidered with ten kinds of flower and fruit patterns, such as pomegranate flowers, peach blossoms, fingered citron, grapes, and so on. At the same time, it was ordered that the "ten fruit shoes" embroidered with the embroidered pattern should be used as the wedding shoes for the nationally civilian women to marry, so that they could not forget the outstanding achievements of the Jin Dynasty. At that time, the embroidered shoes of this pattern were called "Jin Guo shoes". Since then, the embroidery technology of Jin State has been extended to embroidered clothes and other articles with embroidered shoes. Three hundred years later, in three hundred and thirteen BC, Xunzi, the great philosopher of ancient China, was born in the hometown of embroidered shoes. Xunzi attached great importance to the local embroidery industry. An article in his masterpiece, Xunzi, recorded the embroidery process to popularize embroidery with iron needles, and praised the embroidery needles from the angle of philosophers. He believed that iron needles could not only embroider flowers on shoes, but also "lay down the people and adorn Emperors", contributing to the prosperity and stability of the social economy. Until modern times, the silk weaving and embroidery in the area were known far and wide. Local women began their career of embroidering shoes from childhood. They could not get out of doors or two doors. They spent more than ten years to embroider shoes with hardships, embroidering needlework needles and needlework lines on their upper surfaces, showing their loyalty to love and pursuit of happiness.

The change of history makes embroidery shoes production and embroidery level a prerequisite for evaluating a girl's ingenuity. From their wedding day to the full moon of their children, from their birthday to the funeral of the old man, they all displayed their talent and wisdom and artistic charm with a pair of embroidered shoes at all occasions of great importance in life. Coincidentally, there are similar legends of "ten fruit shoes" in tracing the whereabouts of embroidered shoes in ethnic minority areas: the Baoan people who live in the Dahe area of Jishishan, Gansu Province, still retain the national tradition of wearing embroidered shoes. This ancient poem art "flower", which is handed down in this ethnic area, is sung like "green satin and vamp slanting," GA Mei is peony I pick up, brother is green leaves. " After preliminary investigation, more than 20 Ethnic Minorities in our country regard embroidered shoes as the dress characteristics of our nation. Embroidered shoes have become the common cultural wealth of the whole nation in the great family of the Chinese nation. Embroidered shoes are worthy of the name. Chinese shoes "

Once described by the literati, the ladies who walked on the road were graceful and graceful, especially when they moved in and out of the skirt. Under the skirts, they could not see their shoes. They might be a peony and a beautiful peacock with a beautiful look. They were so beautiful that they were full of flowers. They were both charming and charming. It was no wonder that for thousands of years, women never gave up competing on the embroidered shoes to compete with others.

5000 years ago in the Neolithic age, leather boots had appeared on the stage of the Chinese nation. Then, with different times and regions, shoes with different materials and styles were developed. For example, the head of a shoe with a raised toe, a shoe with a pair of teeth and a shoestring, is restricted to Hajj, the leather boots worn at the time of sacrifice, the boots that are high above the ankle, as well as the shoes on the flowerpots worn by the Manchu women during the Qing Dynasty. And because of the variety of materials and styles, there are many ways of shoes since ancient times, such as shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, etc.

54 after the campaign, the bad habits of foot binding were gradually abolished. Women had the right to own feet again, and they wore normal size embroidered shoes. However, embroidered shoes are made of expensive silk and made of silk and embroidered flowers and birds. But in Shanghai, ladies and gentlemen are frequent in social occasions. They can not compete with each other, thus creating the emergence of professional Street for embroidered shoes. There are more than 100 professional workshops in Beijing and Shanghai, and the embroidered shoes displayed in the window are colorful and colorful.

In the 40s of last century, the distinguished personages were still the main ethnic groups in embroidered shoes. The service mode was customized, that is, measuring the size of the customers' feet, and after selecting the colors and embroidery patterns, the customers first handed in the drawings for the special people, then embroidered the patterns by the embroidered women workers, then cut them into the upper ones, then cut the leather into the bottom of the shoes, lay a layer of cloth bottom, and then stitched the upper and sole into a pair of hand-made embroidered shoes.

After that, the embroidered shoes were gradually converted into shoe sales with fixed sizes. In addition, with the appearance of plastic and strong glue, the soles were changed from leather to cheap plastic bases, and the upper and soles were glued together with strong glue, which saved the production hours and the prices gradually dropped. As long as the beautiful women could wear such lightweight, comfortable and elegant shoes, embroidered shoes became the most popular fashion at that time.

By the middle of last century, sneakers, casual shoes and new fashionably fashionable. High-heeled shoes It has become a popular index for gentry ladies to pursue fashion, and the embroidered shoe industry is facing a survival crisis. In the 90s of the last century, the revival of the ancient style of wind swept away the embroidered shoes, which had been quiet for 20 years, and pushed them back to the prevailing trend. And the businessmen also see that the embroidered shoes must be innovating in tradition to catch the hearts of young consumers, so the pattern is no longer fixed to flowers and birds, and the color matching is more daring. For example, black, white and denim fabrics used in taboo are also applied to vamp, and even the top of the last stage has sharp or square style, and the heel also has flat bottom and high heel.

In recent years, the embroidered shoe industry has fallen to the bottom of the valley. The trend of fashion will turn again. Embroidered shoes No one can tell. But as embroidery women workers are hard to find, hand embroidery has gradually been replaced by electronic embroidery. It is becoming more and more difficult to find embroidered embroidered shoes embroidered with hand needles in the future. Using a boss's words, "in addition to the old lady's understanding of embroidery, young people can't distinguish the difference between electronic embroidery and manual embroidery."

Yes, after the rotation of first Century, young people may not know that the embroidered shoes were once more than 1000 years old shoes. Who cares about the difference between electronic embroidery and hand-made embroidery?

Hubei province Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Xianfeng County Tian Da national embroidery is specially engaged in manual embroidery production. In Qingyang, there are still a large number of embroidered embroidered shoes.