Ningbo'S Lao Zi'S Tiger Shoes Are Inherited Strictly.

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< p > Ying Mei Juan is a real rural woman who has never learned the craft of tiger shoes, but when she closes her eyes, she will think of the figure that her mother was doing under the kerosene lamp.

"In fact, it is also a kind of heritage, which makes me feel so familiar with needlework."

Slowly, the old man said.

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< p > don't look at a pair of small tiger shoes. The production of tiger faces from shoe upper, upper, lining to toe ends has 13 working procedures.

The old man said that the most important thing to do is not to talk, the most important thing is to be smart, more important is to be serious, patient, and a little careless.

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< p > gradually, everyone in Hedong Village knows that a woman who can make tiger shoes is living in the village. The old man's home has also become a tiger shoe workshop: the cramped cabin is full of shears, cloth and tools used for making tiger shoes, and there are various works on the desk.

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< p > although the number of people seeking shoes is more and more, but for many years, the tiger shoes sold by the elderly have always been sold for only 50 yuan a pair.

She told reporters that such a pair of shoes, not cloth design patterns and workmanship, just to make a pair of 2 days.

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< p > as you grow old and your partner is not in good health, you need to take care of yourself in bed.

Now the old man spends most of his time in caring for his wife, so she sprouted an apprentice to inherit her craft. She had a son and two daughters. Although the two daughters sometimes helped themselves to do some work, they all had their jobs after all, and now they have entered retirement age, and their families and lives need to be taken care of.

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< p > 2005, when Gu Haohua, a newly graduated female college student from Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, returned to Ningbo, she began to learn the art of designing folk traditional skills.

Gu Haohua traveled all over Yinzhou and eventually found the old man.

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< p > 2008, the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and the Ministry of culture jointly sponsored the "Chinese story" cultural exhibition. After a series of selection, Mei Juan's senior tiger shoes were selected as part of the cultural exhibition.

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< p > taking into account the high age of the elderly, Gu Haohua decided to represent the elderly as one of the two representatives of our province in the Olympic Park.

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< p > now the old man has 3 apprentices. When he speaks of his experience of making tiger shoes, the old man feels very much that she hopes that this skill in her hands can be handed down forever.

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< p > "inheritance is not simply duplication."

The old man said that she could still recall that the kerosene lamp which was not very bright when she was sewing needles, and the kindly figure. Making tiger shoes was a memory of her mother, and also a continuation of her family tradition.

Although her two daughters did not inherit their craft, the rigorous and conscientious attitude of their children is the best interpretation of their attitudes towards life.

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