Li Xiuge: Making "Cat Shoe Shoes" Skillfully

Recently, a reporter saw Pingxiang County looking for Li Xiuge, an old man in the village of North Stream Village. She was stitched in the palm of her hand with a pair of cat shoes.

A thousand layers of sole of a white cloth, red cloth for help, and an embroidered cat shape on the upper.

Small shoes, such as "eyes", "mouth" and so on, are matched with woolen beard and the mighty "King" on their forehead, which adds a lot of "tiger spirit".

The cat shoe shoe is a traditional Chinese folk handicraft.

Also known as tiger shoe.

A cat like tiger with a body shape.

The sole of the cat shoe shoe is wide, not only comfortable, but also convenient for children to practice walking, and the soft shoe body plays a good role in maintaining the feet of children.

Li Xiuge old man said, although the shoes are small, there are many processes: making lining, cutting appearance, sticking patterns, putting soles, shoes, and rolling.

At least a dozen processes before and after, need repeated practice to do well.

The old man learned from his mother when he was young, when his mother made cat's head shoes very famous in the neighborhood.

She, who is ingenious and clever, learned a lot of her mother's skills after several years.

With the changing times, fewer and fewer children wear cat shoes now.

There are few people.

Many neighbors asked her to help to make a pair of beautiful hand-made shoes. Li Xiuge, the warmhearted old man, always agreed happily. The children in the village would pick one or two pairs on their birthday or full moon.

Over the years, Li Xiuge has made thousands of cat shoe shoes for neighbors.

Now, Li Xiuge is already 67 years old, but she can't stop to play with her cloth. She stitches the cat's shoes in the bright sunlight with her heart and soul. It's the most agreeable thing in her life for decades.

Although she was nearly 70 years old, she had no eyes and ears.

She said that as long as her body is allowed, she will stick to it and even want to pass on this traditional handicraft.

Encouraged by her encouragement, her daughter-in-law and young women in the neighborhood joined in the team making the cat's head shoes, some of which increased by more than 5000 yuan a year by selling cat shoes.

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"If you look at it carefully, you can see that now the girl's body has changed a lot in the past, and the" thin arms and legs "are more, and in general, it looks better.

Xu Youdi, chief physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the first hospital of Nanjing, said, "compared with the previous women, the girls are much narrower now. It seems that the bone shelf is smaller and the clothes are better looking."

This change is related to changes in living conditions.

But this is not a good phenomenon, but it means that the difficulty of childbirth will increase, especially for women who love high heels.

With the progress of society, the diet structure has changed, and the living condition has changed. Especially the progress of walking tools has reduced exercise and the bones of women are also changing quietly.

From the perspective of posture, it looks better, but it has an effect on the delivery of women.

As the pelvis becomes narrower, the important "passage" of the baby's mother is narrowed down.

"Now, many eighteen or nine year old girls in the street are pushing high heels with ten centimeters or more, which is actually very bad for the body.

Because the body is bound to lean forward in high heels, so the pressure on the pelvis is aggravated. Both sides of the pelvis are forced to shrink, and the inclination increases, which results in stenosis of the pelvic inlet.

"Doctors advise," in order to better childbirth in the future, it is recommended for women under 18 years old not to wear high heels regularly. Even adult women should not take it lightly. The effect of perennial force will also change the skeleton.