The Glory And Decline Of "Old Shuangsheng" Cloth Shoes

"If you don't have good shoes on your feet, you will be half as short as others". This sentence common saying Explain the importance of shoes in people's wear. Shoes are a kind of culture, which is particular about wearability, comfort, appreciation and brand. At present, the middle-aged and old people in the society have formed a group playing with old cloth shoes. Nowadays, the old cloth shoes of Chasing Chong are mostly Beijing's Neiliansheng, Buyingzhai, Tongshenghe and other brands. To put it in an unrealistic way, 40 or 50 years ago, we people in Shunde Mansion didn't have to leave for Beijing to buy hand-made old cloth shoes. You can realize your long cherished wish of wearing hand-made old cloth shoes by going to the "Old Shuangsheng" shoe store on the north street of Shunde Mansion.

"Old Shuangsheng" Shoe shop It is located in the west of Beidajie Road, south of Tongtaixiang Snack Shop. There are two stores on the street, with a signboard of the old Shuangsheng Shoe Store hanging at the door, a stone trough plate gate, a row of wooden shelves against the wall inside, and two wooden counters. On the counter, a steel cutter of more than one foot is placed at the south end, and the production workshop inside can be accessed at the north side. Old Shuangsheng is a one-stop production and marketing system with front stores and back factories.

"Old Shuangsheng" footwear industry It is one of the earliest shoe industries in our city. Huo Xing, two shareholders of Zhai Xingji Village, Baita, Xingtai County, has given full play to their smart wisdom and excellent quality of honesty since others took over the workshop, and created a scientific and strict management system: using materials carefully, producing strictly and carefully, doing both wholesale and retail sales of products, and receiving customers warmly and thoughtfully. In the past, due to the unevenness of roads and the high labor intensity, most people required that shoes should be durable first, and the durability of shoes was mainly on the bottom. Some manufacturers cut corners to reduce costs, and used waste cloth as the bottom material. "Old Shuangsheng" is not the case. It is made of new materials. Local people don't need to check the authenticity of shoes when they buy them. When passing strangers have questions about the soles of shoes, the shop owner has a sharp tool to solve them. Let the customer choose a new shoe and put it on the steel chopper, and "click" it into two. The new cloth fiber pulled out by the shopkeeper has verified the integrity of the seller. As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Xingtai shoe industry has become large-scale. Laoshuangsheng and his colleagues sold their excellent products to the three provinces outside the Shanhaiguan Pass and the generation of Hubei and Sichuan along the Yangtze River. From the top officials and dignitaries to the farmers and traders, they chose to wear "Laoshuangsheng" cloth shoes.

Xingtai's "old Shuangsheng" cloth shoes were among the logistical equipment of the army in the War of Liberation and the War of Resistance against US Aggression and Aid to Korea. After the founding of New China, Xingtai's shoe industry has become more mature and stronger. In particular, after several adjustments and combinations, Xingtai's cloth shoes have entered the high-end market in Zhengzhou and Tianjin. Even Beijing Wangfujing Department Store has a Xingtai cloth shoes counter. In 1983, the "Old Shuangsheng" cloth shoes were even exported to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.