The Secrets Of The Ancients' Shoes: Love And Marriage

Today, people are used to shoes and feet, but in ancient times, shoes are not divided into feet, or they will be regarded as unclean.

In fact, many places of ancient shoes are different from those of today's shoes.

It can be used as a weapon.

There are many different kinds of swear shoes.

Shoes are divided into left and right feet. This is a common sense that we all know, but it was quite unusual 100 years ago.

The shoes around the ancient times are called "foot shoes". In the thousands of years, the ancients wore shoes.

Ancient shoe making materials are mostly very soft, such as grass shoes and hemp shoes, and the shoes worn by the ancients are relatively loose and the sizes are large.

In ancient times, shoes were not spoken in size, but only shoes.

Although shoes are not equal to each other, buying shoes is still about speaking.

When you try shoes, you usually extend your left foot. If you can wear your left foot, you don't need to try your right foot.

This is because the left foot is usually slightly longer than the right foot.

In ancient times, some people were famous for their long left foot, such as Sun Shuao, the Prime Minister of Chu.

Western shoes are less than 200 years old, and appeared in the United States in 1818.

China's first pair of leather shoes, born in 1876, was successfully made by Shen Binggen, Pudong, Shanghai.

Why don't the ancient shoes be left and right? It may be related to the "mandarin duck shoes" that the ancient people taboo in color and style.

In the eyes of the ancients, two shoes must be exactly alike, while mandarin duck shoes are regarded as unclean.

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In ancient times, the shoe grades were strictly differentiated, for example, during the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, there were strict rules for the colors of shoes worn.

Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty had stipulated in the "reform of service system" that the colors of shoes were "green, green and white".

The court of the Western Jin Dynasty stipulates that all philistine must wear white shoes and wear black shoes, which are "mandarin duck shoes".

Because businessmen are so numerous, they are colluded with officials and businessmen, and their relationship is complex, which leads to the modern meaning of "black and white two way".

Shoe design has many functions.

Although the ancients hate mandarin duck shoes, they do not hate mandarin duck.

Mandarin duck is regarded as "love bird". It often embroiders mandarin duck and bird pattern on shoes.

In addition to embroidering mandarin ducks, embroidered Phoenix heads, finches, and pigeons on the toe of shoes are also referred to as "phoenix head shoe", "sparrow head shoe", "Fu Jiu tou" and so on.

The common feature of these shoes is that the shoe tips are cocked up and the ancients call them "shoes warped".

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Although the shoe design is not unique to China, it is a typical feature of Chinese ancient shoes.

The shoe warping design appeared early in ancient times, and appeared in the Han Dynasty.

After that, even the grass and linen shoes will be designed with high head shoes.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the styles of women's shoes changed mainly on the toe of shoes, or round or square or pointed, or divided into several petals, or increased to several layers, but they were all designed with high head shoes.

Even after the five generation, there appeared "three inch Golden Lotus" and did not give up the design of shoes.

Why did the ancients care about shoes? First of all, shoes are warped and soles together, so that the soles and the upper are not easy to crack and wear. In addition, the ancients often wear skirts, shoes can lift up the skirt, and will not step on the sole and fall.

The shoe design also includes the simple desire of the ancients, putting on shoes with high toe and "advancing step by step".

Also, the design of shoes and the upturned roofs are a concept that makes shoes lighter and more prominent.

In addition, the women of Miao Nationality in Guizhou used to hide their blades when making shoes.

Embroidered shoes are often made for love.

It is not unusual for ancient poor people to borrow clothes, but rarely borrow shoes.

Therefore, the ancient grass shoes are called "not borrowed".

In the past, women who had bad manners and failed to observe courtesy were called "broken shoes".

To his origin, the late scholar Hu Kao said in his novel "Shanghai": "the northern people's so-called shoes are actually the rural prostitutes in the countryside.

Because it is really poor, the clothes of a prostitute are borrowed from others, but only a pair of shoes can not be borrowed.

There is another version of the origin of "broken shoes", which is said to originate from eight hutongs in Beijing.

After a long time, embroidered shoes became "broken shoes", and shoes became a special kind of shoes.

Some people also question the above two statements, and think that the emergence of the word "broken shoes" should be the variant concept of ancient sexual worship.

Shoes have been linked with sex and marriage in the eyes of the ancients, especially the ancient women.

Nowadays, embroidered shoes, which are regarded as "Chinese shoes", are often used as a kind of auspicious things in ancient times, and have become customs in Tang and Song dynasties.

The legend of the emergence of embroidered shoes is related to Jin Xian Gong. After completing the Jin Dynasty's hegemony, he asked the palace princess to embroider 10 kinds of flower and fruit patterns on pads, such as pomegranate flowers and peach blossoms.

It is also stipulated that women in Jin Dynasty should wear embroidered shoes and embroidered shoes when they get married.

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In fact, embroidered shoes are not unique to the Han nationality, but also in the minority nationalities.

If Maonan girls and boys are "sitting on the night", they will give each other "olive shoes". When the girls are walking on the slope, they will secretly measure the size of their feet and make pairs of embroidered shoes.

Divination of shoes

In ancient times, shoes were also a kind of divination tool, that is, shoe divination.

"Jin Ping Mei" refers to Pan Jinlian's shoes divination and Ximen Qing's pleasure.

As for ancient times how to use shoes to divination, different places have different methods of occupation.

It is a very unique form of divination, which is popular among ancient women. It is used to predict when their husbands and lovers will come back or whether they will come back.

Shoe divination is evil, whether it is good or bad, depends on the direction of the toe and shoe.

The last four lines of the poem "shoe divination" by Li Kaixian, a playwright, are like this: "do not come, follow the children to the heel."

At the beginning of the season, the head was holding the head of the festival, and the child was full of words.

Shoe divination is also popular among minorities.

The Yao people in Guangxi used to have an engagement ceremony for "shoe matching", which is also a kind of shoe divination: when both men and women intend to go home and make a wooden slipper each other, if they can match, they will agree with heaven.

Guizhou's bride's shoes are more typical.

In the past, Hmong girls must wear straw sandals when they get married. It is not that they have no money to buy shoes, but to try shoes divination.

Pick out a long and white "sticky rice grass". Please ask those who are parents and children in the village to play a pair of straw sandals for themselves. When they get married, they will wear these sandals to the husband's home.

After wearing a straw sandal, you take off the shoes, look at the shoes, look at the shoes, the shoes and the wear of the heels. See which section is worn out first and which is solid and nondestructive, so as to predict the fate of her life.