The Beauty Of The Feet -- The Beautiful Embroidered Shoes Of The Yao Nationality

Yao nationality is a widely distributed southern ethnic group with complex branches. It is called "Hua Ku Yao" and "flower basket Yao" by clothing.

There are many styles of shoes. There are two kinds of embroidered shoes on the border between Hunan and Guangxi: one is the "trimmed shoes" worn on festive occasions, the other is the "sea shoes" worn by girls when they are married, also known as "Deng Yun".

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The toe of the "sea shoes" is turned upside down and shaped like a faucet boat. The vamp design is like a rough and billowing cloud.

Legend has it that when the ancestors of the Yao nationality encountered a storm when they crossed the sea, only one dragon boat was out of danger.

Thus, there are dragon boat shaped "sea shoes".

The embroidered shoes displayed here are typically "embroidered". The green silk fabric is embroidered with abstract patterns of cloud top, fish pattern and bird pattern, mainly decorated with color lines, decorated with metal sequins and decorated with spiral threads.

The whole shoe is beautiful and generous, and is the representative work of Yao traditional handmade shoes.

Yao's embroidered shoes are usually "big feet shoes", but due to the influence of the local Han people, many living customs imitate the Han nationality.

The "three inch Golden Lotus" that you see now is the shoes worn by the noble women in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, whose shape and patterns are different from those of the Han nationality's "three inch Golden Lotus".

The vamp is yellow cloth, embroidering the sun, Phoenix, flowers and grass, and so on.

The shoes are wide open, black cloth trimmed, blue cloth at the bottom, and then a piece of sheepskin before and after the use of linen. It is both skid proof and wear-resistant.

The shoe is a typical Yao style, whether it is embroidery, color matching or material selection.

In ancient times, Yao nationality had "spotted clothes and feet", meaning that they were barefoot wearing colorful clothes.

Later, straw sandals were popularized, but taboos were more frequent.

The straw sandals displayed here are mixed with straw and hemp, and cloth is added to the joints to make them comfortable and firm.

This straw sandal style used to be popular in the Yao Minority Area.

Because in October 1934, the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army personally knitted the straw sandals and passed the twenty-five thousand mile long march to name the "Red Army shoes", also known as "measuring ruler".