Typical Features Of Ancient Shoes In China

In the spring and Autumn period, attention was paid to the head raising and special records. "Yili Shi funeral" said: "steaming is attached to, even gorgeous." Gorgeous is the decoration on the toe of the ancients, it has holes and can be tied to shoelaces. It was only in the Han Dynasty that there was a difference between the head and the head. The tombs of Mawangdui No. 168 in Changsha, Hunan, and the tomb of Jiangling Lantau Peak No. 3 in Hubei were unearthed from the double headed pointed head. During the northern and Southern Dynasties, shoes were decorated with rich and varied styles, mainly on shoes. For example, there are Jin tou tou, Ju Yun Lu, Liang Zhi tou Lu, Li Feng Lu, Weng tou Lu, Chen Yu Hua Fei Fei tou, and there are also turtle heads in Western Jin and Yongjia. Among them, Feng tou, Li Feng and Yu Hua fly head are worn by women. Others are usually for men. At that time, women's shoes were warped and multi petal shaped, usually with high toe ends. The origin of the early development of the ancient and modern Pu grass, Ma Ge, its toe ends are also decorated with Phoenix heads, pigeons and mandarin ducks.

During the twenty years (600 years) of emperor Kai Kai's tomb, Wang Tao's tomb was dug out of a pair of pottery shoes and his shoes were warped.

The silk paintings of Tang Dynasty unearthed from Ashtar, Turpan, Xinjiang, where women are tall and gorgeous. The differences between women in the Tang and two dynasties were mainly on the toe of shoes, or round, or square, or pointed, or divided into several petals, or increased to several layers, but all of them were high warped forms. This kind of shoe decorations can be found in the Tang Dynasty poetry. Such as Wang Ya Poetry: "cloud top shoes." Yuan Shi day: "Jin Hou Tai Tai Fu." He said, "the red shoes are all fine." In the Tang Dynasty, many kinds of shoes were left behind. Such as: a pair of high head brocade excavated in Turpan, with a variety of flower shaped brocade, with a red front flower and bird pattern, and a six colored striped flower lining.

In ancient times, this kind of cloud island with high head and shoes was made in this way: white cloth is used as shoes, green cloth is high, and cloud top vamp is left, and the green cloth is arranged on the left and right side, with six sides on each side as if it were December. From the five generation, the "foot shoe", the "three inch Golden Lotus", came into the Song Dynasty. The female figure in the "filial piety" picture painted by the Song Dynasty is the red and pointed shoe. The tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty even unearthed shoes with seven or eight feet of shoes.

In the Ming Dynasty, with the influence of Yuan Dynasty costumes, boots developed further. But because of the strict rule of wearing shoes in Ming Dynasty, the general people still wear shoes, and the improvement of shoemaking skills is still marked by shoes. In the forty-one year of Wanli (Ming Dynasty) in the suburb of Huqiu, Suzhou (1613 AD), Wang Xijue and his wife buried a pair of cloud heads, such as white stripes, yellow Satin men's shoes. In the novel "journey to the west", there are many descriptions of shoes such as cloud head shoes and so on. Such as: "Ma Jing Ge Wei Yun tou Lu", "Bu Yun Lu", "cloud tip phoenix head shoe", "cloud shoes heaping beautiful", "Yun Fu Huang Brown", "cloud head embroidered mouth without excellent performance", as well as "embroidered shoes dew dew double hook Phoenix" and so on. Usually, novels are the reflection of social life. This tells us from another angle that the shoes of the Ming Dynasty are also very colorful.

About the production method of cloud head shoes, there are also special works in the Ming Dynasty: two taped with soap thread, about 43 to A7 centimeters long, folded in flexion, and bent at the end of the work. The bottom of the work takes two of the head. The rest of the remaining articles are crossed on the surface, divided into two ends, and the two edges of the shoes are gorgeous. After the Qing Dynasty, women generally wore high floor shoes, "Golden Lotus" and round head round shoes, and men wore shoes without shoes. Therefore, a new pattern of "flat shoes" has been formed in the Qing Dynasty. Only the king's shoes and the front of the soles are slightly rolled up without obvious shoes.

After the Qing Dynasty, ethnic minorities in the southwest and northwest and Mongolian and Korean shoes still wore strong shoes. Up to now, the embroidered shoes of these regions and nationalities, traditional boots and Korean shoes are all decorated with high shoes.

Why do ancient shoes appear shoes?

This is not only China's but also the topic of shoe culture in the world, because Chinese and foreign ancient shoes have had the history of shoes for thousands of years. The Chinese shoe's style and regulation can basically come up with the following four answers:

First, ancient Chinese men's and women's clothing is mainly made of skirt and gown, and shoes can be used to hold skirts without slipping.

Second, walking shoes are warped. It has a warning function to protect wearers from injury.

Third, the shoe is usually warped up with the sole, and the fastness of the sole is much better than that of the upper.

The above three points are the laws of the ancients in the long term practice, which have certain practical value and scientific nature. )

The fourth point is a strong sense of feudalism and superstition. The upturn of the toe of a shoe is similar to that of the ancient building. It is the result of belief and reverence for heaven.