Old Leather Shoes Are Now Collectibles.

The straw rope is used as sole and the reed as the upper, and the winter shoes that do not have frostbite in winter are remembered by many people 30 years ago.

Yesterday, reporters in Jiangyin Port Development Zone Jiangshi community Zhai Shizhong home, saw his good shoes.

What you may not expect is that these shoes that are nearly lost will also be "ordered" production.

Auntie Guo, Zhai Shizhong's wife, said that Lao Zhai was 67 years old. He followed his previous generation to learn to do reed shoes when he was a teenager.

At that time, people wore winter shoes to spend the winter. Many people in the village would do it. They often picked up the whole bunch of shoes to sell in Changzhou, and the most expensive one was sold for 28 Fen cents.

"At that time, only 20 Fen of the work day was done, so there were many people doing it.

Later, from the fields to the households and to the enterprises, all of them did not do so. Lao Zhai had not done any of them for over 30 years.

Now, Zhai has reclaimed the 30 years of his old skills which had been abandoned for a long time. It originated from an accidental conversation between Guo Auntie and Zhu Chunmei, an art teacher in Jiangyin Ligang experimental primary school.

One day in October, Mr. Zhu saw some people cutting flowers at the riverside. Suddenly, he remembered the shoes he had been wearing when he was a child.

"My grandparents would do that at that time.

Is there anyone else who can do the reed shoes? "Guo aunt told her: my wife would.

When Aunt Guo made a pair of Lao Zhai

When Mr. Zhu was in front of him, Miss Zhu was so excited that she took down his shoes and put them on a local Internet Forum in Jiangyin.

Soon, there was a netizen to follow suit, and contacted her, asked to make the reed shoes.

Mr. Zhu found that the request for custom made reed shoes was either a childhood aftertaste or a collection of traditional handicrafts.

She put the shoes in the school.

Let the students sketch.

She told reporters that she would wear it occasionally.

"I remember when I was a kid, I put some straw on the bottom of my shoe, so it was very warm.

None of the students has passed, and the grass shoes are very fresh.

Zhai received a total of 40 pairs.

The minimum size is 22 yards, the size is 46 yards.

"The riverside flowers are very good this year. We can probably make about 60 pairs of the reed flowers that we cut back."