Raise Knowledge: Did Ancient Shoes Even Split?

Why did the ancients wear shoes?

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In ancient times, it was called "foot shoes". The ancients did not wear them. In the thousands of years, the ancients wore shoes.

Is it difficult to wear shoes? The material of ancient shoes is mostly very soft, such as grass shoes and hemp shoes, that is, the use of animal skin is also very soft.

Moreover, the shoes worn by the ancients are relatively loose and the size is large, so they will not wear or rub their feet.

What is interesting is that the ancient shoes do not speak the same size, but only the shoe numbers.

Although shoes are not equal to the left and right, the ancients bought shoes or left and right sides.

When you try shoes, you usually stretch them first.

As long as the left foot can be worn, the right foot won't have to try.

This is because the left foot is usually slightly longer than the right foot, which is just the opposite of the hand.

In ancient times, some people were also famous for their long left foot, such as Sun Shuao, the Prime Minister of Chu, and Xunzi's "non left".

Because shoes are not equal to each other, there are only one shoe last shoe used in ancient times.

In fact, shoes are not the same as foreign countries. Western shoes are less than 200 years old. They appeared in the United States in 1818.

The first pair of leather shoes in China was born in 1876 and was successfully produced by Shen Binggen, a Pudong native in Shanghai.

Shoes that are not equal to each other are also called "straight foot shoes", also known as "straight foot shoes".

Why did the ancients' shoes not distinguish from each other? It may be related to the "mandarin duck shoes" worn by the ancient people in different colors and styles.

In the eyes of the ancients, two shoes must be exactly the same. Two different "mandarin duck shoes" are regarded as unclean. Only the untouchables wear it, which is totally different from the fashion of modern avant-garde people.

People who collude with officials and bandits are commonly known as "

The two way is related to "Yuanyang shoes".

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.

The emperor Wei Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who had a profound influence on the ancient Chinese costume culture, had stipulated in the "reform of service system" that the colors of shoes were "green, green and white".

In the Western Jin Dynasty, the merchants of the Western Jin Dynasty stipulated that all the Philistine must wear white shoes and wear black shoes, which are "mandarin duck shoes".

This pair of shoes is divided into two black and white phenomena. The ancients call it "black and white two way".

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".

Why do old shoe heads have high "shoes"?

Or "step by step" or hidden blade used as a female self-defense device.

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

Mandarin duck is regarded as "love bird". It is not uncommon to embroider mandarin duck and a bird pattern on shoes.

Especially after the Han and Tang Dynasties, women used to decorate their shoes with mandarin ducks.

Linghu Chu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said in a poem "farewell to the song of the song": "the weaves of mandarin duck and gold, and the emerald curtain of gold."

The "mandarin duck" is not a pair of mandarin duck shoes with different colors, but rather exquisite women's shoes with fine workmanship and embroidered mandarin ducks on their toes.

In addition to embroidering mandarin ducks, there are embroidered patterns on the toe, such as "phoenix head", "bird's head" and "Pigeon".

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

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

In ancient times, men's shoes and women's shoes were all cocked up.

The shoe warping design had already appeared in ancient times, and a revolutionary design of "split head" appeared in the Han Dynasty.

Hunan, Changsha, Mawangdui Han tomb No. 168, Hubei Jiangling Lantau Peak, Han Dynasty tomb, have been unearthed double pointed head warped head.

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.

The design of the shoes is quite exquisite, for example, the more high-grade high head cloud, the white cloth as the shoe, the green cloth as the high, the cloud head vamp, the green cloth as the left and right sides, each side crosses six, symbolizes December.

Even after the five generation, "

"That is, the toe shoes worn by women on foot do not give up the design of shoes.

Why do ancient people care about shoes? There are many ways inside.

First, the shoe and the sole are integrated, so that the sole and the upper are not suitable for cracking and wear. Furthermore, the ancients wear more skirts, and shoes can lift up the skirt, so they will not fall on the sole.

In fact, the shoe design also contains the good wishes of the ancients. Wearing shoes with high toe shoes is not a "step by step". Moreover, the design of shoes and the upturned roofs are a concept that makes shoes lighter.

The secret of shoes is not limited to this, it also has the self-defense and self-defense considerations.

The Miao women in Guizhou used to hide their blades in their shoes when they were making shoes. In the face of sexual assault, the blade was a secret device to repel the wolf and protect the chastity.

Why did ancient poor people borrow clothes instead of shoes?

There are several versions of the "broken shoes".

It is not unusual for ancient poor people to borrow clothes, but rarely seen "borrow shoes", or "borrow clothes without borrowing shoes".

This is because shoes are too cheap, grass and hemp can be used to make 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".

According to its origin, the late scholar Hu Kao in his novel

"There is such a saying:" the so-called "northerners" shoes, actually refers to the rural soil sex workers.

Because it is poor, the clothes of a prostitute are borrowed from others, but only a pair of shoes can not be borrowed, but they still have their own shoes. This is the end of the shoes. "

In addition, there is another version of the word "broken shoes", which is said to have originated from eight hutongs in the past in Beijing. Some of the prostitutes and prostitutes who provide sex services to poor men often mark an embroidered shoe outside their own room.

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

Broken shoes, in the mouth of Beijing people, are also known as "broken goods".

However, some people have questioned the above two statements.

It is considered that the appearance of the word "broken shoes" should be a variant concept of ancient sexual worship. In the eyes of the ancients, shoes are the symbol of female reproductive organs and an important sexual cultural symbol.

The birth of this "sexual symbol" is related to the life of the late Zhou Dynasty ancestor.

Hou Ji's mother is the emperor Gao Xin's yuan Fei Jiang Jiang. Jiang Ji stepped on the giant footprint and conceived the queen.

This is the so-called "Shiji Chou Benji" in the so-called Jiang Zai "practice (footprints) and body movement as pregnant".

Shoes, especially in ancient women, have been linked with sex and marriage.

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.

Embroidered shoes are also known as "embroidered shoes" and "Zha Hua shoes". They are also known as "Jin Guo shoes" in the south of Shanxi.

The legend of Jin Dynasty is related to Jin Xian Gong. After completing the Imperial occupation, he asked the imperial concubine to embroider 10 patterns of flower and fruit, such as pomegranate flowers and peach blossoms on their vamp.

At the same time, it is also stipulated that the women of Jin State should wear embroidered shoes when they get married, and "embroidered shoes" have become popular since then.

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 "maozi girls" go "slope", they will secretly measure the size of their feet and make pairs of embroidered shoes.

Why are ancient women keen on shoes?

In ancient times, shoes were also a kind of divination tool, the so-called "shoe divination".

Shoe divination seems to be a superstition today, but the ancients are very keen.

In the eighth return of "Jin Ping Mei", Pan Jinlian, who is in love with the divination of the lover and the master of the lotus, listens to the sound of adultery, and talks about the thing that Ximen Qing uses to divination and hope for Ximen Qing.

With no feeling at all, take off two red embroidered shoes on the feet with a slender hand, and try to play a lovesickness hexagram.

Qing Pu Songling "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi" "Fengyang scholar" section, there are also shoe divination plot, the husband went out six months later did not return, the young wife sang: "dusk wears off makeup, the window west wind cold yarn."

Listen to the banana sound, a shower of rain.

Where is it easy to crack your teeth? You can't see your home. Your tears are numb. You think of him and hate him. Your hands are red embroidered shoes.

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, they should go home and make wooden slippers.

The bride's test 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.