Secret: High Heeled Shoes Worn By Ci Xi In Qing Dynasty Palace

Exploring high heels shoes In the history of the Qing Dynasty, the double height on the feet of the harem women. Bottom shoes Absolutely attracted the public's attention with its special posture. From the usual Qing palace drama, we can often see the figure of women in the Qing palace. Watching their feet tread on the heels of high heels, they can still walk with flying feet. What is the historical significance of such a special shoe style?

In fact, the feet of ancient women were called "three inch Golden Lotus". This extreme aesthetic began from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. It is said that after the Southern Tang Dynasty, the main Li Yu was in a state of desolate politics. All day long, he was burdled with a voice and a dog. A concubines, with the help of Li Yu, became a crescent shaped with silk binding feet and bent to make a dance dance on the golden Lotus platform. Since then, the imperial concubine, in order to maintain this stunt and maintain the favor of the latter, has often used white silk to wrap up her feet. As time passes, she has wrapped her feet in the "red diamond" and "crescent moon type". In this case, people compete to emulate, and after the five generation, they gradually formed the trend and became popular in the marketplace. In the Song Dynasty, women's golden lotus feet had already been associated with the beautiful peony of Luoyang and the fragrant tea of Jian Zhou and Xin Yu. In the Yuan Dynasty, if a woman did not bind her feet, she would be regarded as a great shame. The queen empress of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was laughed at by having a pair of big feet.

Ming and Qing Dynasties, the two generation. Foot-binding The wind is particularly popular. Han women wear many bow shoes, while Manchu women do not foot their feet. The rulers of the Qing Dynasty were extremely disgusted with women's foot binding, and had not yet entered the customs. Taizong Huang Tai Chi edicts in the three year of Chong de (1638) that he is "effective in other countries' clothes and crown, and he is also responsible for serious crimes." After the queen mother, the queen of the Xiaozhuang said, "there is a penalty for women entering the palace by foot binding," which is the most severe punishment for foot binding of Manchu women. In the seventeen year of Shunzhi (1660), the imperial court demanded that women in the world no longer bind their feet, but eventually they could not change their habits. But the eight banners have never been banned, and the Emperor Daoguang reiterated the ban in eighteen (1838).

After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, although the Manchu women never bended their feet, according to the general aesthetic standards, Bigfoot was definitely not beautiful. In order to solve this problem, Manchu women invented a kind of high sole shoes, hiding their feet in their skirts, and they would not appear easily.

The origin of high sole shoes worn by Manchu women is another way of saying. According to one theory, Manchurian people have a custom of "cutting wood for shoes" since ancient times. In the past Manchu women used to collect wild fruits and mushrooms on the mountain, so as to prevent insect bites from biting, they tied up wooden blocks on their soles, and later became more sophisticated and developed into high floor shoes. Another way of saying is that the ancestors of Manchu people learned the appearance of white crane and tied high branches on their shoes in order to cross the mud pit and take back the city occupied by the enemy. Finally, they won the victory and achieved the goal of revenge and disgrace. In order to remember those miserable days and commemorate the merits of high heel shoes, women put on these shoes and passed on from generation to generation.

Manchu women usually wear flag Kun shoes when they are wearing flagships. The flag type shoes can be classified as a "high shoe". There is also a shoe sole with a middle height of several inches, with a thin middle and a square bottom. There are two kinds of high heel shoes, one is open and convergent, and the other is called "flowerpot bottom". The other is thin and wide, flat and round, and its shape and floor mark are all like horseshoe, so it is named "horseshoe bottom". Its wood bottom height is usually 5 to 10 centimeters high, the highest can reach 25 centimeters.

High floor shoes are decorated with embroidered patterns or decorative pieces, such as cicada butterflies, except for the upper. Wooden parts are also often decorated with embroidery or beads. Some of the shoe tips are decorated with silk thread, which is long and accessible. The heel of these shoes is strong, often with broken upper and sole intact. The shoes of high bottom flags are mostly worn by middle-aged and young women aged over thirteen and over, wearing these shoes, walking on the road, graceful and graceful, dignified and graceful. The flag shoes worn by old women and working women are flat and wooden embroidered shoes, also known as "net cloud shoes".

After the destruction of the Qing Dynasty, the foot binding ban on Manchu women has become waste paper. Manchu women live mainly for the purpose of intermarriage with the Han nationality, imitating the Han nationality women's foot binding, but the wind of foot binding is now at the end of the battle.