Foot Style -- The Dowry Shoes Of Tu Girls.

In the eastern part of Qinghai Lake and at the south foot of Qilian Mountains, known as the hometown of the rainbow on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, there is a mysterious and industrious nation - the Tu people.

The customs of this nation are always associated with beautiful rainbow.

You see, the sleeves of the Tu women are made up of seven colors of rainbow. They are also called "colorful sleeves". The red symbolizes the sun and happiness. Yellow symbolizes the earth and harvest. The blue symbolizes the sky and tranquility, and the white symbolizes cattle and sheep and auspiciousness.

The people of the rainbow hometown dress themselves up with gorgeous colors, beautify their lives, convey friendship and trust their feelings. Therefore, the art of color expression of embroidery has become an indispensable part of people's life.

Tu is an ancient ethnic group living in the northwest of China. It was originally nomadic and gradually engaged in agriculture.

There are still many arguments about the origin of the Tus. The main idea is "Tu Gu Jun", which means that the Tu ancestors migrated from remote Liaodong to today's Gansu and Qinghai provinces.

Currently, they live mainly in the area of Qinghai mutual aid and Datong, and are deeply influenced by Tibetan and Mongolian in terms of language and cultural customs.

The shoes of the Tu nationality are characterized by cloth shoes. Men, women, old and young love to wear embroidered cloth shoes. Only in terms of color, men's shoes are elegant and women's shoes are gorgeous.

The cloth shoes of Tu nationality are mainly made by hand, with fine workmanship and compact stitches, which are very durable.

Winter boots and shallow summer shoes.

Men's shoes are typical double beams and cloud dragon ornamentation; women's shoes are embroidered with showy flower patterns.

These women's shoes are unique in shape and bright in colour.

Tu Nationality Children's shoes are mainly cloth shoes, shallow mouth "summer shoes" and Gao Gao's "winter shoes", thousands of floors, more than two beams, hand sewing.

The difference between male and female children's shoes is mainly the color of cloth. Generally, boys' shoes are coloured with black, blue and white, while girls are colorful, such as red, yellow, green, pink and purple.

Boys have no colored POM balls on their toe, but girls do.

Here is a pair of boys' summer shoes, thick soles, made of hemp thread dense, strong and wear-resistant, very suitable for lively and hyperactive children wear.

This pair of children's shoes are meticulous in their work, with white cloth as the face, with blue side matching, and white cloth with decorative moire to decorate, forming a unique decal, without charm.

The two sides of the vamp are symmetrically embroidered with a few flowers, plain and generous.

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"Also called" bride shoes "," horse shoes ".

Here is a "trousseau shoe" worn by a Turkish bride in Ledu County of Qinghai province. The shoes are long and the shape is completely like boots.

Because it is wedding products, so the vamp uses red and purple two kinds of festive colors, embroidered with "spoon" flowers before the upper, with happiness and good luck.

The sole of the shoe is made of silk and hemp rope, and the stitch is more refined than the ordinary shoe, which is interesting to the exquisite embroidery pattern on the upper.

This pair of shoes is beautifully crafted. It is a good opportunity for the bride to expose her needlework and show her ability to do housework in front of her relatives and friends.