Outline Of Shoes Culture Of Ethnic Minorities In China

The growth of ethnic minorities in China is in the southern and northern part of the motherland. From the icy snow and frozen Changbai Mountain to the southern subtropical climate, people of all nationalities fought the struggle against nature in order to protect themselves and beautify their lives.

All ethnic groups create beautiful products by using unique materials such as animal skins, plants, plants and handmade fabrics.

The primitive society of the northeast and northwest minorities mainly hunt, "eat their meat, dress their skin", and have a large number of animal leather resources.

The minority nationalities located in the western regions of China used to make leather shoes four thousand years ago, and reached the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (302 BC).

Up to now, there are about 16 ethnic minorities in Mongolia, Tibetan, Uygur, Uzbek, SZU Bai and Oroqen ethnic groups in the western, northwest and northeast parts of China. They still use animal skins as the main materials for shoemaking.

The Oroqen and Ewenki peoples used to make shoes with the skin of the roe deer, and decorated the fawn with fawn, cubs and flower patterns. The patterns were concise and clear.

Leather boots are not only accompanied by their life, but also the leather boots worn after death.

Daur people like to wear leather boots called "odd Kami". They usually use captured squirrels, lynx leather shoes, and embroider all kinds of geometric patterns, which are beautiful and light.

The Uzbek boots are made of sheepskin and are light and warm.

The leather boots are closely related to the etiquette and custom of the Xi Bai people. The sbai people use red, blue and green colored leather as vamp and embroidered flowers. When the new year is thirty, people hang their boots outside until the second day of the second year.

The Russians wore "jade belt" leather boots made of horse skins, while red shoes were used in expensive shoes.

Hezhe has always been engaged in fishing and hunting. People make fish skin boots with cooked Huai tou, zhe fish and pike. The shoes are generally 30 centimeters tall. When the boots are filled with grass, they are strapped to the calf with fish strips. They are both cold and comfortable.

The Tibetan boots are mostly made of horses or yak skins, hard bottom soft pads, and shoes lined with woolen fabrics. The rear part of the tube has 10 centimeters long openings to facilitate the wear and tear. The style is generous, comfortable and beautiful, showing the beauty of rustic simplicity.

The most common resources of land vegetation in North and South China are woody plants and herbaceous plants. In Northeast China, Southern China, southwest and other regions, the minority nationalities make full use of grass stems and wood to make shoes.

Especially the grass species are strong in adaptability, so the minority nationalities wearing straw sandals are almost all over the country.

From historical records, the grass shoes of Buyi, Dong, mu, Korean, Yi, Yao, Dong and other minorities are traditional ethnic handicrafts.

Li, Dai, Jing and Changbai Mountain are also good at making wooden clogs in the southwest and southern regions.

The customs of the Zhuang people used clogs for a long time, and became the daily necessities, and extended to the national traditional sports activities to form the clogs.

The Hani nationality's clogs are almost the same as those of the modern Japanese nation. Before the clogs, there is a type of knot, which is clamped on the toes, and the clogs are fixed at the foot. There are two teeth in the bottom of the clogs.