Ancient Men Wore High Heels Too.

In the vicinity of Nanjing's west gate, there is a seemingly unremarkable alley called clogs lane. As the name suggests, it is a street lane dominated by clogs in the past. The east of the clog lane is connected with the warehouse lane, West to the Mo Chou Road, about 100 meters long, with many old cottages on both sides, and 10 of wooden clogs Lane once was "Hubei guild hall".

When it comes to clogs, you can't say clogs.

Now few people may know clogs. It is a kind of ancient clothes.

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The ancients called shoes "shoes", "clogs" is a toothed "shoes", its structure is usually composed of three parts: first, the bottom plate, which is the foundation of "clogs", usually for wood, for sole shape, drill holes with several holes, to wear rope system; two is rope belt, is called "department"; three is the gear teeth, is installed under the bottom plate, the front and rear one is vertical, flat, square and cylinder, and so on, the height is 6-8 centimeters, the height is roughly equal.

In the film and TV drama of Qing Dynasty palace, the queen, "Ge Ge" and the ladies in court wear many shoes similar to clog, but the material is different.

Clogs are good for texture and toughness, common mulberry logs made of mulberry wood, and "wooden clogs" made of sandtang wood.

In the tenth chapter of the dream of Red Mansions, Bao Yu said, "this is a complete set of me, a pair of Tong clogs, only to wear, and under the eaves", it is evident that he is wearing clogging.

In ancient times, there were no tar and cement pavements. Even in the Six Dynasties capital such as Nanjing, only the main streets were paved with "slates and stones". Other places were muddy dirt roads, where the rain was muddy, and the wooden clogs were increased at the bottom, plus the height of the double teeth soles increased, and the contact area with the ground decreased. Therefore, in the absence of rubber boots, clogs became the ideal choice for ordinary people to deal with the muddy days of rain and snow.

The first one to wear clogs is Jin Wen Gong.

Then, when and when did the clogs be invented? According to Liu Jingshu's "Yuan Yuan" in the Southern Song Dynasty, in the Song Dynasty, more than 600 years ago, Jin Wen Gong was expelled from his father and exiled in the palace.

In the Late Jin Dynasty, Wen Gong returned to the throne of Jin State under the protection of Emperor Qin Mugong, and when he was courting his courtiers wandering away, he forgot the Jie Zi. When he remembered, he pushed his mother to hide in the mountains.

Jin Wen Gong took a man to seek an interview. Unexpectedly, he pushed away and disappeared. Jin Wen Gong set fire to the mountain. He wanted to force him to come out. Unexpectedly, he pushed his old mother to hold a willow tree and was burned to death.

Wen Gong looked sad, and cut down the trees that had not been burned by tears.

Whenever we recall the work done by the meson to cut the brachial work, we will caress and mourn: "sorrow is enough!"

Nanjing people wear clogs in summer.

Although there are no brilliant history and famous figures in clogs lane, when talking about the old Nanjing place names, clogs lane is often mentioned.

The reason for this is that the ancient footwear industry in Nanjing has been relatively developed. Since its close proximity to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the clog lane has always been a commentary street in the business gathering area.

In the past, there were many clothes and shoes and caps in Nanjing as the geographical names: the valuation hall, the embroidery lane, the gauze hat lane, the helmet lane,

Camp, clogs lane, etc.

There are also "five elements" to "rank", such as "Jin Suan, clog lane, Shui Zuo Gang, Huo wa Xiang, Tu Cheng tou".

Not only that, clogs also created another poetic name in Nanjing: Pipa alley.

Pipa alley is similar to the ancient Wuyixiang. In the old Pipa lane, there was a ditch in the middle of the road. The stone slab was covered with slate.

On rainy days, pedestrians wear clogs and walk on them. Ding Dong sounds like playing pipa, so they have the romantic reputation of Pipa lane.

In the 60s and 70s of last century, in plastics

And plastic

Before being popular, many people in Nanjing wore wooden boards in summer. They were wooden clogs with no teeth. They were made of logs, and the boards made of shoes were made smooth by grinding. Then they were made of "canvas" or "belt" as a "shoe upper", which was very convenient to wear.

At that time, there was a "car wood" workshop specializing in wood processing, producing wooden buzzes and gyroscopes in winter, and processing wooden boards in hot weather.

At that time, there were so many people who wore boards, and at night, there were wooden clad boards on the stone or pebble paved roads.