Talk About The Relationship Between Chinese Shoe Culture And Shoe Enterprises

As the saying goes, "no

"Poor half" shows that shoes are very important in a person's clothing.

Along with thousands of years of civilization, shoes have been coming all the way. It is closely related to people's life. It is closely related to the pace of human progress. Like other ancient civilizations in the world, the emergence and use of shoes has a long history in the history of Chinese civilization.

Chinese shoes culture has a long history

Luo Chongqi, the author of the history of Chinese shoes culture and the research of shoes culture, has a long history of Chinese shoe culture. According to historical textual research, the earliest pair of shoes in China were sheepskin boots, which had been excavated for four thousand years in Kroraina, Xinjiang, China. This pair of leather boots is estimated to be at 23 meters, which is worn on the feet of a female corpse of a 18 year old girl in Xinjiang. These boots are not only the objects of the earliest unearthed shoes found in China, but also the earliest unearthed shoes in the world.

From four thousand years ago

Since then, the shoes of the main styles of every dynasty in China have been unearthed in kind, which is unique in the world.

Luo Chongqi: in the military, they all wore a dress robe, they fought in chariots, and began to wear boots from the king of Zhao Wuling. After wearing boots, he could wear pants, trousers and boots, and then develop a horse riding tactic. In military affairs, Chinese shoes culture played a significant role.

A statue of terracotta warriors in the Qin Dynasty unearthed from Xi'an. From the back, the bottom of the shoes worn by the soldiers kneeling on one leg clearly shows a dense trace of the nanowire. This shows that at least in the Qin Dynasty, the technology of Chinese shoe sole has been produced, which has enhanced the tenacity of the soles and extended the wearing time of shoes. To this day, this ancient shoe making technology is still used in the production of traditional cloth shoes.

With the rise and development of China's silk manufacturing industry, Chinese people began to make silk fabric shoes. They were both Imperial relatives and dignitaries at that time.

In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the boots had a further development, and there was a great change in the whole political etiquette, because before the Qin Dynasty, when all the officials entered the palace, they all had to take off their shoes, even to take off their socks, but after the Tang Dynasty, the officials could go into the court in boots, and even the women could wear their husbands' boots on their feet and ride around the horse. This was a development of the political enlightened culture.

Chinese shoe culture: three inch Golden Lotus

When it comes to China's shoe culture, we must talk about the "three inch Golden Lotus". This kind of abnormal social phenomena that bind human nature reflects the discrimination and persecution of Chinese women in two aspects of spirit and body in feudal society.

　　中國在世界上鞋文化里面獨一無二的是三寸金蓮，三寸金蓮的起源有各種各樣的說法，甚至有說是孔夫子和秦始皇開始的，那時候因為什么呢?孔夫子時代和秦始皇時代就把選美的標準之一，定為婦女的腳要小，從歷史上來看，一般都認為是南唐的李后主，他非常喜歡音樂和美色，經常叫一些宮女在宮殿里面跳舞，地上鋪著金箔剪成的蓮花，還有六尺高的金色的蓮花臺，讓那些宮女腳上面都要纏著布，把腳纏得很小很小!這樣跳舞，這樣跳舞的特點是什么呢，就是婦女搖擺得非常厲害，搖擺得非常厲害是一種畸形的享受，李后主是作為一種美色的畸形的享受，從這個以后，就把婦女的小腳和金蓮聯系在一起，然后一點點就從宮殿里面傳到了民間。

The foot binding of Chinese women began in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the song, yuan and Ming Dynasties.

Moreover, in the Yuan Dynasty, all kinds of boots of Mongolian were introduced into the Central Plains and combined with the shoe making techniques of Central Plains, which made China's boots industry develop greatly.

In the Qing Dynasty, the shoes made by the Manchu women who did not wrap their feet and advocated the feet of heaven became a landscape in the history of Chinese shoes culture.

Chinese shoe culture: come in high profile

Foreign leather shoes were introduced into the late Qing Dynasty.

And began to become popular in big cities in China in two and 30s of twentieth Century. At that time, many dignitaries and fashionable men and women wore western style leather shoes and high-heeled shoes to the dance floor as a symbol of new fashion life.

During the period of the Republic of China, there was also a popular style of embroidered shoes made of leather, silk, and hand-made. It was popular with women because of its strong national characteristics and exquisite handicraft.

Nowadays, for most people, shoes are necessary in daily life, but many people feel that shoes on their feet are not worth mentioning.

But in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, people have built modern museums for shoes, and put all kinds of shoes collected on display.

Cai Wenyun, the head of China shoes and shoes culture museum, Wenzhou, known as China's shoe capital, is the largest shoe production base in China. And now it is in an advanced position in our country from the production level of footwear industry in Wenzhou. As such a shoe production position, we feel that Wenzhou people have a responsibility to fill the gap in the research of domestic footwear culture. One aspect is to rescue this shoe culture, and the other is to inherit, carry forward and develop the shoe culture. This is a sense of responsibility.

Chinese shoe culture: deep love

Colorful and dazzling exhibits are collected and purchased from various parts of China through various channels. Many enthusiasts of cultural undertakings, especially many shoe culture enthusiasts and researchers, have done a lot of work for the establishment of museums and collection of exhibits, and made important contributions.

Cai Wenyun: we still have two works in this hall. It is now under construction, and it will be opened in October of 2002. After the exhibition hall is completed, we will be more complete and more comprehensive to reflect the historical context of our whole shoe culture and the essence of all nationalities, and we are also prepared to absorb some of the contents of world shoe culture.

As far as China is concerned, because of its vast territory, the environment in different regions is very different, and there are many nationalities. The customs and habits of all ethnic groups are different.

There are many shoes and ceramic shoes made of metal shoes such as copper shoes and silver shoes in China, but they are mostly funerary objects or crafts, not practical products.

Practical shoes can be classified into four categories: leather shoes, cloth shoes, straw sandals and clogs.

This is probably the most famous wooden clog. According to legend, this kind of wooden clogs was invented by Xie Lingyun, a Southern Dynasty writer and Yongjia prefect in the southern and Northern Dynasties, so it was also called Xie Gong Cun. When he went up the mountain, he lowered his front teeth and lowered his teeth when he went down, so that he could keep his body balance and save his strength when climbing.

In the shoe culture of ancient China, it is called clogs, no matter what its shoe upper material is, so long as its bottom is made of wood or bamboo, it is called clogs.

Its upper may be straw woven, or it may be

It may also be silk or cloth, all called clogs.

Many ancient shoes, whose front part is obviously raised, and the raised part is called shoes, why do they have shoes?

One is that Chinese ancient people are wearing skirts. The biggest drawback of wearing a gown is that they are prone to wrestling. Therefore, a shoe in front of the shoe is warped, and the whole dress can be placed inside the shoes, which makes it safer to walk.

It's not a matter of stepping on a dress and walking.

The second point is to play a warning role, that is, walking on shoes, for fear of touching hard things, so after shoes are warped, he will not easily hurt his feet.

The third thing is that the most easily broken place for shoes is the toe cap, so the shoe is warped up in front of the toe of the shoe, and this shoe is usually tied up with the sole of the shoe. The shoe is made of a shoe toe with a shoe thickness so thick that it increases its fastness.

The generation of shoes is the inevitability of human development towards civilization. Through the unearthed shoes of various dynasties, people in various nationalities and regions in China are still wearing shoes, and these shoes are being produced on line and are being sold in shoe stores. We seem to have seen the history of the development of Chinese shoes culture.

As the saying goes, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. You can imagine that the role of shoes in the development of social history is very important and unique.

Luo Chongqi: from the point of view of ancient human civilization, that is, wrapping animal skins on the body or wrapping them on the buttocks, it may be a sign of civilization clearly, and from my study of shoes culture, I once imagined that in ancient times, from the very small activity area to the great activity area, the ancient man reminded him of wrapping his feet with animal skins so that he could take more roads. This more road is a progress that mankind has gradually expanded its horizons and expanded its scope of activities.

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Chinese shoe culture: Bu Shang life

In the past, there was such a saying: "there is a small garden in the South and an inner rise in the north".

Today, located in the front gate of Beijing, on the commercial street of the big hurdle, Beijing's inbound shoe store, which originally thought that the palace was producing all kinds of boots, was full of customers.

In the three years of the Qing Dynasty, Xianfeng was founded in 1853.

It is nearly 150 years old. During the past hundred years, it has experienced ups and downs. In 1900, it was also destroyed by the war of Eight Allied forces. It can be said that its fate is a microcosm of the development of modern Chinese national handicraft industry.

Cheng Laixiang, general manager of Beijing inbound shoe store: the location at the beginning of the store was to serve the court, mainly to play the court boots. At that time, it was serving the court, so it included the name, all of which cost a lot of mind. For example, what is the meaning of the three words in the inner League? It refers to the palace inside, and the union is actually a homophonic meaning, meaning the shoes that wear in the league. The official career can be promoted to three levels.

From the beginning of the creation, Zhao Ting, the first boss who was directly affiliated to Wuqing County, set the rules of "real materials, fine work and meticulous work". Because of the accurate location of the name of the Geely market, soon, the rising boots made by the company were welcomed by the then Imperial relatives and officials.

There is a book in the inner League, which is written in the book "on the middle of the pack". The above is a detailed account of the people who have made boots in the inner League, the size and weight of their feet, their preferences and special requirements for their shoes and fabrics, that is to say, once you have come once, you will not have to come to your shoes again, and then there are often some local officials who come to Beijing to find the shoes files of the court officials who are going to see them in the inner League, and make a pair of boots as a meeting ceremony.

Cheng Laixiang: at that time, there was a social gathering of Ma Yuan Yuan, wearing an inner League, wearing a Rui Xiang, four Daheng Heng, at that time, the four Daheng is four banks. What does that mean?

At that time, it was especially famous in the society. The shoes of the upgraded shoes, the silk cloth of Rui Xiang and the credit of the four banks were actually some identities at that time. If we had these four points, we could be regarded as celebrities in the society.

After the Qing Dynasty, the adjustment strategy of internal alliance was changed from "the idea of meditation to sedan chair" to serve the common people. Of course, the integrity and integrity of the business philosophy and exquisite manufacturing process were invariable, and a series of products dominated by thousand layers of cloth shoes were formed.

Cheng Laixiang: the famous actor Huang Zongying's brother Huang Zonghan is now in a department of our district. He went to the United States for inspection in the first two years. He came back to tell me that he didn't have pedometer in his waist. They walked all day long and kept visiting everywhere. Some other old comrades wore leather shoes, and they could not get back, even some feet were bubbling. He told you at the time that I didn't have anything in this shoe. It's a traditional product with Chinese characteristics. It is easy to wear it.

Over the past few years, leaders, celebrities and even ordinary people from all walks of life have praised the hand shoes of internal rise. Overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese have always been attracted to visit and buy in the inner League. Not only that, many foreign friends are also fond of hand made cloth shoes.

Cheng Laixiang: like in 70s, when China and the United States did not establish diplomatic relations, the United States had a liaison office in Beijing. The then director was the father of President Bush, Bush. When he left office, he came to our store and bought several pairs of cloth shoes.

One year, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mrs. Bandaranaike, visited China. At that time, she suffered from a serious foot disease. She was a specially designed pair of shoes for her to complete her journey to China successfully.

The leaders of the inner League recognized the importance of culture in the progress of enterprises and the development of modern business. They overcome difficulties and set up special space in the two layers of the shop, and held the exhibition of "inner lift shoes culture" all the year round, so as to establish the image of Confucian Businessmen and enhance the cultural quality of enterprises, so that customers can have a better understanding of Chinese shoes culture.

The production and demonstration of a shoemaker is more impressive.

In recent years, the company has made great efforts to vigorously develop product quality, develop new products and expand sales channels. In the face of market competition, they have made bold innovations in technology and fabrics. Besides traditional cloth shoes and embroidered shoes, they also produce leather shoes, craft shoes and other products, and introduce fashionable colors and fashionable styles into the design and production process of products.

Now, there is a big move in the inner League, which is to push the 150 year old brand to overseas, open shop and set up factories abroad, and strive for greater development. Let's hope that the future of the League will be better.

Shoes are not only daily necessities, but also works of art, gifts and collectibles. They are closely related to Chinese manners and customs, and can be found in literary and artistic works. In short, shoes have been given rich cultural connotations by Chinese people and become carriers of culture.

Chinese shoe culture: accumulate well

In the Chinese life, birth, birthday, marriage, funeral, at different times, different shoes should be worn at different times. For example, when a child is born, the elders will prepare him a pair of children's shoes with animal modeling. The most common is tiger head shoes, hoping that the parents and even the whole family hope that their children will grow healthily and grow healthily. Besides, there are also shoes with small animal shapes, such as pig head and rabbit head, to accompany the children to spend the first part of their life.

As for marriage, the Chinese bride must wear red shoes. It is related to the connotation of the whole Chinese culture, because the Chinese people regard red as a lucky color, because the Chinese ancestors were very early. It is red, thriving and auspicious, so when the beautiful bride gets married, she has to make a pair of shoes, red shoes, and embroider others, such as dragons and Phoenix, which also imply that after I get married, I am very happy, and the family is very auspicious.

In addition, every birthday should wear longevity shoes, embroidered with the word "Shou" or "ten thousand words", meaning longevity.

In some places, there is a custom of wearing shoes and straw shoes at the funeral, which shows the wearer's farewell to the dead with the most simple feelings.

The relationship between them, for example, in the proverb, there are many proverbs, such as Liu Bei's straw sandals, which means that you are the line of work, and Zhou Yu wears straw sandals. The meaning of them is changed, and the meaning is changed. They are used by many people in the daily life. For example, there are no places to search for iron shoes. It is very common to say that these proverbs are very common. There are also people who are not able to walk in the melon fields. This is an educating person. You can not lower your body in the watermelon fields to pull shoes. It is easy to arouse people's suspicion that you are stealing watermelons, so the melon fields are not able to carry out their shoes. Shoes are closely related to linguistics.

Yuan zaju, Ming legend and all kinds of local operas in China are full of stories related to shoes and shoes. Some even take the shoes as the center to plot the plot. The more famous ones are "Kou Zhun's back boots" and "Zhang three drunken boots". The story of "Zhang Liangshi's action" in Han Dynasty is also widely circulated.

There is a folk song in Chengdu. It is written in this way: the moon lights the moon, the little sister makes shoes, and the three calls do not feel sleepy.

So this folk song describes the girl's love for her boyfriend very much. She loves him. So, as a very practical thing, shoes contain a kind of love between men and women in the connotation of shoes. This kind of song is very popular throughout the country.

If there are five or sixty different kinds of shoes and different nicknames in Chinese characters, there are many words related to shoes in idioms and colloquial phrases, such as "Zheng Ren buying shoes", "cutting feet to fit shoes", "scratch shoes", "bare feet are not afraid to wear shoes", "feet are not afraid of shoes crooked" and so on.

In the Chinese folk New Year pictures, there is a picture called rat wedding. I collect an ancient New Year picture. When a mouse gets married, the Mouse Bride sits in a embroidered shoe as a sedan chair. It calls a mouse to take a wife's shoes as a sedan chair.

Although the sole is small, the world is very big.

Nowadays, there are many people in China who are obsessed with shoes collection and shoes culture research.

Mr. Jin Yongyu is famous for his special collection of porcelain shoes. When he visited us before he visited us, he was unable to meet in business in Guangzhou. However, we were not disappointed. His collection of thousands of different kinds of exquisite porcelain shoes made us an eye opener and loved it.

In 1986, Mr. Luo Chongqi of Shanghai had traveled all over the country on his own to conduct a self study tour of shoes culture. On the way, he was in danger for four times, and finally finished the book "history of Chinese shoes culture". He praised him as "a page of China's history for world shoe history".

Looking back at the history of Chinese shoe culture and exploring the origin of shoe culture, we can see the profound connotation of Chinese culture.

At the same time, we hope that China's colorful shoes culture will help the development of modern Chinese footwear industry.