Embroidered Shoes, Also Known As The Culture Of Chinese Shoes.

In the footwear family, the Chinese embroidered shoes perfectly integrated with the embroidery art are the original handicrafts of the Chinese nation. This kind of practical products rooted in the national culture is known as "Chinese shoes" by the world.

Since the pformation from matriarchal society to paternal society in the ancient Chinese land, the social division of labor between men and women has been formed. Successive generations of women inherit the ancient embroidered techniques, and on the shoe materials of the square feet, they tell the beauty, culture, ethics and fashion values of various dynasties.

The embroidery and embroidery techniques of embroidered shoes follow the aesthetic fashion of Oriental decoration, focusing on the rules of shoe upper and the presentation of upper, and with the decoration of shoes and sole.

The colorful silk thread is embroidered with gorgeous patterns from toe to heel, even sole and insole.

Embroidered shoes embroidered theme comes from life, the main melody is folk culture and folk customs, the basic cases include flowers and birds, grass and insects, birds and beasts, claw pedicle flowers and fruits, mountain scenery, drama characters, etc.

Auspicious cases include Reo Takako, a hundred pears, two butterfly flowers, and dragon flying dance, which symbolizes the praise of life and a happy life.

When and where did the embroidered shoes originate all over the river?

There are no textual research on the relics handed down from the present.

The legend of "Jin Guo shoes" widely spread in southern Shanxi may give us some enlightenment.

Two thousand and six hundred years ago, during the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, Shanxi was a small country. It was a small country in Jin Dynasty. In the six hundred and sixty BC, when Jin Xian became a prince, he worked hard to expand the territory, and annexed ten princes and small Kingdoms in one fell swoop.

In order to make the people of the whole country always remember his martial arts skills, he ordered all the women's shoes on the palace to be embroidered with ten kinds of flower and fruit patterns, such as pomegranate flowers, peach blossoms, fingered citron, grapes, and so on. At the same time, it was ordered that the "ten fruit shoes" embroidered with the embroidered pattern should be used as the wedding shoes for the nationally civilian women to marry, so that they could not forget the outstanding achievements of the Jin Dynasty.

At that time, the embroidered shoes of this pattern were called "Jin Guo shoes".

Since then, the embroidery technology of Jin State has been extended to embroidered clothes and other articles with embroidered shoes.

Three hundred years later, in three hundred and thirteen BC, Xunzi, the great philosopher of ancient China, was born in the hometown of embroidered shoes.

Xunzi attached great importance to the local embroidery industry. An article in his masterpiece, Xunzi, recorded the embroidery process to popularize embroidery with iron needles, and praised the embroidery needles from the angle of philosophers. He believed that iron needles could not only embroider flowers on shoes, but also "lay down the people and adorn Emperors", contributing to the prosperity and stability of the social economy.

Until modern times, the silk weaving and embroidery in the area were known far and wide. Local women began their career of embroidering shoes from childhood. They could not get out of doors or two doors. They spent more than ten years to embroider shoes with hardships, embroidering needlework needles and needlework lines on their upper surfaces, showing their loyalty to love and pursuit of happiness.

The change of history makes embroidery shoes production and embroidery level a prerequisite for evaluating a girl's ingenuity.

From their wedding day to the full moon of their children, from their birthday to the funeral of the old man, they all displayed their talent and wisdom and artistic charm with a pair of embroidered shoes at all occasions of great importance in life.

In minority areas, there is a similar legend of "ten fruit shoes" in the pursuit of embroidered shoes in ethnic minority areas: the security clan in the big river family in Jishishan, Gansu Province, has still retained the national tradition of wearing embroidered shoes.

GA Mei is peony I pick up, brother is green leaves. "

After preliminary investigation, more than 20 Ethnic Minorities in our country regard embroidered shoes as the dress characteristics of our nation.

Embroidered shoes have become the common cultural wealth of the whole nation in the great family of the Chinese nation. Embroidered shoes are truly "Chinese shoes".