The Relationship Between Traditional Footwear Industry And Agricultural Economy

< p > China's ancient agricultural economic system, the footwear industry is divided into two systems: one is the official camp, which specializes in the royal family.

The other system is male and female handcraftsmen scattered in rural families.

The mode of production of the "small agricultural economy" and "agricultural slack" is the basic form of the footwear industry in ancient China.

The rural labourers have been going on for thousands of years, inheriting, creating and developing the traditional culture of Chinese shoes. So far, there are still rich original Chinese cultural traditions of the original form in the shoe art forms and the folk shoe custom of the rural areas.

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< p > footwear is the most typical handicraft product in China's self-sufficient smallholder economy. There are two reasons: first, the universality and universality of the selection of shoe materials, especially the shoes made of crops as the main materials, showing the original characteristics of Chinese agricultural society.

The two is the "farm shoes" for agricultural use, and the production technology of functional shoes suitable for farm labor is also a valuable intangible cultural heritage in China.

In situ selection of shoes, the vast vegetation resources in rural areas, and livestock raised by farmers are the source of shoe materials. Farmers often use these natural forms to make shoes with different texture.

In the two years of China's small peasant economic and social structure, the folk shoes played the role of "archiving" in the ancient agricultural society and became the "living fossil" of the costumes.

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< p > straw shoes: This is an endless supply of shoes made from straw stalks.

First use the wooden hammer to make the grass knot ripe. When making straw sandals, sit on the long wooden bench. The wooden bench has teeth on the front, and there are several hemp rope on it.

Hemp rope is the warp, the straw is weft, interwoven into porcelain thick thick sole, and then a rope to make a bundle of bundles to help the children grow strong and warm.

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< p > Cao Wengxie: the vamp is interwoven with cattail, wheat straw and rice straw, wrapped in fine rope or rags to strengthen the wear resistance of the toe, the bottom is made of straw, and the grass and wand shoes are a kind of overshoes.

Therefore, the grass and shoes are generally very large, and the folk proverb says, "two feet on the grass boat, in Hebei is also in Henan".

Especially in rain and snow, adults and children use this as a shoe implement.

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< p > bamboo shoes: use the cross section of the bamboo head, drill four holes, and tie two rope. It can be fastened to the feet, rainy and snowy days.

But most of them split the bamboo head into two halves, cut the bamboo green face slightly flat, drilled tether, and rain and snow days were made on the feet as rain boots.

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< p > reed shoe: in the Central Plains area, there is a wooden bottom boot worn by rural labor. Its boots are made of reed spikes and corn ear pads. The boot is made of Tung wood plates, and the boots are covered with grass or cotton wool.

Reed nest shoes are made from their own materials and are economical and practical.

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< p > wooden slippers: most of the southern part of China has been wearing wooden slippers since ancient times, and a strip of nail can be towed or called clogs on a wooden board.

In particular, people living in the water village, rice Township, after their labor return, wash their feet, directly wear clogs, very light leisure.

In Tang Dynasty, Li Bai described this custom in "Yue Nu Ci": "long dry Wu sons and daughters, beautiful eyebrows".

The feet are like frost and no head of the head.

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< p > felt shoes; this is the winter shoe of the northern farmers and herdsmen.

First, the wool or cow hair should be spread evenly according to the size, and then rolled into felt according to the rolling felt method. Fold the felt piece according to the shape of the foot, then fill it with the shoe last.

After a short period of time, the edges should be cut.

Sometimes it is moistureproof, waterproof, skid resistant, and leather heel thick heel.

This soft and warm felt shoe is also known as "felt nest".

The high waist shoe, which is made of felt, is called "Mao GA Tai".

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< p > farmland labor effect shoes in farming activities, bipedal is often in the "lower conglomerate stubble, on the Tribulus worm snake" bad environment.

Farmers from all over the country create self-made farm function shoes, protect the feet of cultivated land, promote the development of agricultural economy, and create and develop the Chinese shoe culture.

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< p > > Wuxian, Jiangsu and other places, the "Ploughing shoes" are made of thick coarse cloth. The upper is not only high but also sewed with fine stitches, with socks on it and straight to the knees.

When farming or planting rice, it can protect bites from leeches, water drills, water snakes, etc., and also prevent the bottom of the feet from being scratched by sharp objects.

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< p > Yangquan, Shanxi, where farmers often wear shoes called "one face", with a convex face on their front face.

It is especially suitable for wearing in wilderness.

The thorns and spines will fall down with the convex toe and stiff soles.

Local women have accumulated rich experience in making shoes strong and durable. For example, they only rub their shoes on the hot summer days, because the temperature is humid at that time, so that the foundation in the wet environment is strong enough to wear.

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< p > Shandong "Qilu mountain" farmers' "nose" shoes, soles and uppers are thickly packed with thick threads to enhance hardness.

The thick soles are about 6cm longer than the upper ones, and some of them grow triangular. When the steam drum is soft and soft, the upper part is bent up and the upper part is connected to the shoe upper to form a "nose like" shape.

The nose and nose structure enhances the fastness and wear resistance of the whole pair of shoes, and is very suitable for working on wheat stubble and for climbing when climbing and cutting firewood.

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< p > Jiangnan Water Village uses a glutinous rice straw with strong local toughness to weave water paddy straw sandals, which is characterized by the ability to confuse aggressive snake and insect.

The grass shoes can not only slip when they work in rice fields, but if they accidentally step on them, the texture and smell of grass shoes are not easy to cause the attack and reaction of snake and worm, and are bitten.

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"P", the ancestors of the Mu nationality in Luo Cheng, Guangxi, are constantly improving the grass shoes suitable for their work.

The straw sandals made from bamboo shells were relaxed and slippery, and then used to make straw sandals and loosely emit crisps. Finally, bamboo sandals made of bamboo shoes were easy to make, cheap and durable.

Bamboo hemp straw shoes are made of four hemp ropes. They are woven with soft bamboo silk, first knitted toe ends, then knitted shoes, and five pairs of shoe hands are connected by two shoe beams connecting the shoe body.

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< p > the convex shoes of rural areas in Yunnan are characterized by the lack of suture on the outside of the bottom of the dry floor, leaving a width of about 1 centimeters of convex edge, and about half a centimeter higher than the middle part.

When the ground is in the middle, there is a space in the middle. When the field is working, the soil gradually fills up the low-lying part of the sole, which is like applying a layer of mud under the dry layer.

Wearing such shoes is not easy to slip and work hard.

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