China'S Brand Export Commodity Europe Exhibition Tianshui Hemp Shoes Favored

In order to further promote the development of economic and trade relations between China and EU countries and enhance the EU market's understanding of Chinese brands, the Ministry of Commerce held the first "China brand export commodities Europe Exhibition" during the Bermingham spring consumer products Expo.

The exhibition area of China is about 3500 square meters, with nearly 80 exhibitors.

Our province organized 12 enterprises to exhibit products such as bags, gifts, shoes and so on.

The shoes of Tianshui in Gansu province are very green, attracting many foreign businessmen to ask questions.

The production of hemp products has been widely circulated in the Tang Dynasty, and has become a folk handmade product enjoying a long reputation.

It reached its peak in the Republic of China.

Hemp shoes are one of the main products. They are made of pure natural linen, linen, cotton and related knitted utensils.

For several days, our province's Linen shoes can receive orders from foreign businessmen every day: link Tianshui hemp shoes and Tianshui are located in the middle reaches of Wei River. They belong to temperate monsoon and semi humid area. The rainfall is moderate and suitable for planting hemp. It has a long history of cultivation and has a history of more than 5000 years. It is one of the main producing areas of Longma hemp.

Cannabis cultivated in Shimizu, Zhang Chuan and Gangu county is white and shiny, moist and resistant to decay, tough and long elastic.

In l995, only 663 thousand kg was produced in Gangu county.

Because Tianshui produced high-quality cannabis, it began to produce hemp shoes before the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the long run of production and weaving practice, the craft has been continuously improved. It has been widely circulated in the Tang Dynasty and has become a folk handmade product enjoying a long reputation.

Du Fu once had a poem with "two feet of sleeves".

The shoes of the Xinjiang Turpan ASA Tang tomb unearthed are similar to those of today's Tianshui shoes.

In ancient times, the people of Tianshui traveled south and North, wearing shoes of hemp.

In 1920s, the right-wing Ching army defeated Qishan, and was blocked by the southeast. Sun Zhongshan went to Longnan to see him in Guangdong Province. He went through Qingshui county and put on his flute shoes. He wrote that "old farmers are proud of themselves, and they are good at producing sesame shoes."

He will go to the southwest tomorrow to help him to go to Shu Road.

In 1929, general Ji Hongchang stationed in Longnan, held the National Games in Tianshui, provided a set of clothes to the participants, and also specially produced the water and hemp shoes for use in competitions.

During the war of resistance against Japan and the war of resistance against aggression and aid Korea, the people of Qingshui donated a lot of shoes to the front, so that the officers and men could fight against the invaders lightly.

All the counties and counties under the jurisdiction of Tianshui are producing sesame shoes.

The shoes of Qingshui, Wushan, Qinan and Maiji are woven into sole with hemp rope, and the upper is woven into various designs with cotton linen or dyed cotton thread. The top of the shoe is decorated with single or multicolored cotton ball, and it is fine and light.

Gangu hemp shoes have distinctive characteristics. After making the shoes, they should also penetrate a thick layer of coarse cow dung into the bottom of the shoes. After drying, the sole of the shoes is like a cowhide. It is very suitable for walking along long roads and mountain roads, and running a hundred miles a day.

The production of Gangu's Hemp products reached its peak in the Republic of China.

Hemp shoes are one of the main products. They are made of pure natural linen, linen, cotton and related knitted utensils.

When making, first make the big green hemp PLAITED BRAIDED, then put the linen plait in flat case, set up the braid dish sole, make the linen tightly "thousand layer bottom", use the hemp rope to tighten the left and right sides, and fix the sole; at last, use the crochet hook to hook out the twist braid shoe upper, the shoe ear, the nose bridge before doing the work, use wooden last shoe to support the shoe, and help the beam, shoe ear and nose bridge to run through the endurance hemp rope, the shoes become.

The pattern has a unilateral rope net less partial help and cattle nose bridge, has the rope net instead of the nose beam to form the round mouth baldness's bottom, a boat, also has three string, the cloth wrap and so on.

In addition to natural white color, there are also dyed red, yellow and black colors, which combine practical and ornamental value.

Gangu shoes are not only practical products, but also a kind of folk arts and crafts. They have profound cultural implications.

The tip of the tiptoe is the red mother's ear, which means "Jiang Weisui's Zhu Geliang's expedition" and "mother's heart and child's Angelica". The "single whip savior" originates from the story of the Tang Dynasty, which was rescued by Li Shimin by a steel whip.

In the Dragon Boat Festival, there are custom women who give men craft shoes to express love customs.

With the advent of modern means of pport, the change of people's aesthetic concepts, especially the pursuit of a better life, has been treated with cow dung, and the custom of wearing shoes with shoes in daily life seems to have become history.

However, in the twenty-first Century, Gangu, from children to the elderly, from farmers to cadres and workers, generally wore shoes with flax, forming a fashion.

The main reason is that the shoes are cool, moisture-proof and anti-skid, and have the function of absorbing sweat and breathing to treat beriberi. Wearing shoes with flax can massage the foot sole points, and also have the function of dredging meridians, activating the life and extending the health.

Gangu county "desert line hemp weaving Shoes Co., Ltd." (formerly Gangu County Social Welfare Factory) seized the shoes and shoes, natural and craft two beauty together, wearing comfortable, adapted to the characteristics of green consumption.

According to market demand, the shoes produced in L were put into the market in 995 years. The following year, the American eco dragon company spotted the unique physiotherapy effect of Gangu shoes with strong natural flavor and strong folk flavor, no side effects, anti fungus and bacteriostasis, shielding radiation, dissipating sound waves and preventing static electricity, and protecting physical and mental health. It has been imported in large quantities from L 996 years ago.

Shoe companies also combine management with traditional Chinese and Western technology, combine manual technology with mechanization, combine traditional and modern technology, maintain traditional ecological characteristics in production, improve technology and work hard in practicality and ornamental value. Nowadays, hemp shoes have not only become the summer consumer goods of high consumption groups such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but also are popular products of low and middle consumption groups and farmers.

The products are exported to 5 countries, including L, USA, Japan, Italy, Spain and France. They sell Hong Kong and Taiwan and earn 3 million US dollars annually. They are one of Gangu's major foreign exchange products.

In October 2005, Gangu shoes were rated as the best selling products by the third China Agricultural Products Fair. It has been recognized as a pollution-free, pollution-free green product (see photo).

Gangu County Ma Ma shoes company produces 600 thousand pairs of products, including 95% hemp shoes, hemp slippers and casual shoes, and sells them overseas. It is the only enterprise in China that produces hemp products with cannabis as the main raw material.

In Tianshui, the hemp industry represented by Gangu hemp shoes has driven the hemp cultivation and semi finished production in Qingshui, Zhang Chuan and other counties. The planting area of the hemp in the city has reached more than 100 thousand mu, and only 4000 farmers or more farmers have participated in semi-finished production in Gangu county.