Have A Pair Of Long Clogs

Clog, the ancient "crow" or "drawer", is commonly known as wooden shoes and wooden slippers.

Generally, it is made of light wood and has a slightly larger shape than the bottom of the foot, and there are some small holes used for tether tapes.

In the early days, it was mostly flat bottomed clogs, and then came the teeth (heel), which was the most popular footwear in the ancient wet and rainy southern areas.

"Clogs", "Guang Ya Jie Jie" said: "wooden drawer is also"; "anxious article" Yan Shi Gu note: "clogs, wood for it, and the application of two teeth, you can practice mud."

Yan Shi Gu's "teeth" used to "practice mud" and "Shing Ming Jie Che" are known as "paper mulberry", that is, today's "heel", mostly for walking light, especially for rainy days to prevent slippery roads and muddy water splashing feet.

The famous Japanese painting "fan FA Hua brochure" depicted the feet with high heels and clogs eager to avoid the rain, which is a vivid illustration.

In June 1984, Zhu Ran, a famous Soochow king of the Three Kingdoms excavated in the outskirts of Ma'anshan, Anhui, was unearthed with a large number of valuable cultural relics because he was buried with his wife and concubines.

Especially the lacquered clog unearthed in the tomb is a sensation to Japan, which has aroused strong reflection. Some Japanese friends also published an article saying that they had always thought that clogs were something unique on the feet of Japanese people. "They never thought of the root of this clog, and they actually tied it to Wu Guo in the three country of China."

The root of Japan's clog is indeed in China, but it is not the Soochow of the Three Kingdoms.

Archaeological findings show that the earliest clogs in China were excavated in 1988 at the original social site of the lake in Ningbo, Zhejiang.

A total of two clogs were found. They were all toothless (flat) clogs with a flat front face and a little larger than the feet. The front left side was slightly curved on the left corner, so they were all clogs with their left feet.

Among them, the number is T503 (above): 1 of the clogs, the plane approximate corner (front left) shaped rectangle, the surface is smooth, the middle of the front and the middle of the crest plate and the sides of the back end are chipped with a small circular hole, and the bottom of the floor is excavated with a horizontal shallow groove (width 1 cm) between the middle and the rear end of the circular hole, so that the rope inserted into the lacing can be embedded in the slot, so that it does not wear away when walking.

The cages are 21.2 cm long, 8.4 cm wide at the front end, 7.4 cm wide in the heel, and 1 cm in round holes.

Number T302 (upper): 1 clogs, the front part of the palm is wider, and the left side oblique arc; heel is narrower and slightly square, and the surface is smooth.

Each side of the front end is chiseled with a circular hole (one of which has been worn), and two pairs of circular holes are chipped on both sides of the middle and back side, and the bottom surface is also cut with pverse shallow grooves between the circular holes.

Its cages are 24 centimeters long, the front palm 11 cm wide and the heel 7 cm wide.

The two clogs were reasonable in structure and ingenious in production. The results of carbon dating dating from specimens collected from the same layer of clogs were 5365 + 125 years ago (tree rings were positive), roughly equivalent to the period when the culture of the Song Dynasty turned to the Liangzhu Culture in the pitional period of the fourteen years.

It is the earliest clogs in China and even in the world. It is a kind of shoe that the primitive ancestors invented to adapt to the natural environment such as hot and humid climate in the south of the Yangtze River.

Clogs are popular in warm and rainy Wu and Yue areas because they are simple and cool.

In the first half of 2004, 1 high teeth clogs were found near the bottle kiln town of Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The cages were slightly rectangular, 21.5 centimeters long, 8.5 centimeters wide, and 1 centimeters thick. The surface of the cages was smooth, with a small circular hole of 0.5 centimeters in diameter at the front end, and a rectangle (long 2.2, wide 0.6 cm) flat hole was also cut on the left and right sides of the middle part of the rear part. This is the same as the small round hole at the front end, apparently for wearing a tether, so that the clogs can be fastened to the feet without falling off.

The bottom of the crest (that is, the bottom of the ground) is made of dowel tenon, with a flat high tooth (heel) equal to the width of the crest plate around the front and back. The tooth thickness is 0.9 and 5 centimeters (to the surface).

According to the structural characteristics of the clogs and the coexistence with the collected products, their age is roughly the Eastern Zhou Dynasty or later.

It can be said to be one of Wu Yue's shoes.

According to legend, during the late spring and Autumn period, when the kingdom of Yue became a state of Wu, Wu Wang Fu received a beautiful beauty from the country. He specially built a museum with a newly built Palace on the mountain of Ling Yan on the Bank of Taihu, southwest of Suzhou.

In addition, he created a "ringing Gallery", that is, digging holes under the long corridor of carved beams and painted bricks, laying a row of large pottery jars, then laying a layer of elastic thin wooden planks on them, so that they could wear a dress with various kinds of jade ornaments and small bronze bells, dancing with their feet in the gallery, and dancing in the corridor. At this time, the rhythm of the wooden organ would be given out in the corridor, and it would be accompanied by the crisp and pleasant jade voice and bell tones, accompanied by the graceful and graceful dance of western style. To please the beauty of Xi Shi.

Wu Wang Fu often used it as a joy to drink and dream, which led to the tragedy of the country's ruin.

In the Song Dynasty, Wang Yu had once visited the poem "ringing the gallery". "The corridor is bad and the air is empty."

Clogs were not only popular in southern China, but also imported into the the Yellow River Valley very early.

It was said that when Confucius traveled to the state of Chu to go to the state of Chu in the same year, when Cai Guojun was too early to hire Confucius, he deliberately made various obstacles to delay Confucius.

One day, in the middle of the night, the big wooden clogs that Confucius put in the guest house were stolen, which caused a lot of trouble to Confucius and his party.

Later, until the Western Jin Dynasty, Confucius's clog appeared again and was treasured in the imperial palace as a national treasure.

According to "Jin Shu five lines Zhi", Jin Hui Wei Yuan Kang five years (AD 295) leap month Geng Yin, Arsenal Arsenal fire, "Zhang Huayi has chaos, first life to stick to it, then fire fighting."

The treasures of the past treasures in the library, Wang Mangtou, Confucius, Hanko, the White Snake sword, and the two million and eighty thousand devices were in full swing.

This is the testimony of the ancestors of the lower reaches of the Yellow River in the late spring and Autumn period.

When it was extended to the Han and Jin Dynasties, clogs were very popular. In southern and northern areas, clogs were widely used in summer, especially in rainy days and indoors.

And the clog worn by the aristocracy is luxurious.

"After Han Shu five lines Zhi" notes: "the elderly in Kyoto in Yan Xi are all clogs, and women are married to lacquer painting and multicolored."

In view of this, the high toothed clogging of the above Zhu tomb is very small, and it is obviously a concubinage of his wife and concubines.

In the Han Dynasty, there were various forms of clogging and different uses.

"Jin Shu Xuan Di Ji" has been carrying Qinglong two years (AD 234). When the emperor pursued troops against the Shu army, the tribe of Tribulus in the middle of Guanzhong and the emperor made two thousand officers of the army march on the soft wood clogs.

It shows that the kind of light flat wooden clogs with no teeth at the time was also excellent shoes for marching in thorns.

At the time of the Southern Dynasty, people also invented a kind of light clogs that can be removed from the front and back teeth (or heel) for special purpose.

In the history of Xie Lingyun's biography, the clogs worn on the feet of Xie Ling often go to the front of the mountain when they visit the mountains and rivers. When they go up to the mountain, they go to the front teeth, but they go downhill to the rear teeth. They are light and dexterous, and are not too laborious.

This kind of wooden clogs that can be loaded and loaded can still be found until the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, the great poet, wrote in his poem "farewell to a dream in heaven", "it is a card to thank the public for their feet."

Clogs went to the Korean Peninsula and Japanese archipelago very early, as well as Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries.

The high wood clogs, which are seen in the Japanese yako era and the Kamakura era paintings, the fan FA Hua brochure (the second half of twelfth Century) and the Ming Hui Shang Ren Tu, are the same as those found in the high toothed clogs found in Yuhang's bottle kiln and in the tomb of the latter Zhu ran tomb.

Because clogs have many advantages, with various forms and simple production, especially suitable for the hot, rainy and wet southern areas, especially for close and indoor use, l is deeply loved by the southerners. It has been used for quite a long time and has formed two distinctive footwear systems in the north and south, which is a special feature of Chinese traditional culture.

"We should care for the clogs of the clogs, but not the small ones."

This popular poem written by Ye Shaoweng in the Southern Song Dynasty not only made us feel the worthless mood of the poet's garden but also made us feel that the author's foot was writing a clogs, and he had long been buckled in the spring.

Until modern times, farmers in the vast areas of South China, East Asia and Japan and other places still wore clogs, but the shape changed. They had flat clogs, low heels and high-heeled clogs. They were made of lumber, and the lace used to cover the sole of the foot was often replaced by a wide flat leather (or cloth) belt or a "human" belt.

With the development of science and technology and the rise of foam plastic slippers, clogging has completed its historical mission. It gradually withdrew from the stage of history in the 60s of last century and gradually disappeared.