China On Embroidered Shoes -- The Future Prediction Of China'S Embroidered Shoes Brand

As the saying goes: people eat their food, so with "China on the tip of the tongue", we will not discuss "China on the tip of the tongue" today. We have to listen to "China on the tip of the shoe", and what kind of beautiful story is there in the middle?

Blue sky overhead, feet on the ground.

Naturally, it becomes a necessity in our life. With the improvement of living standard, we are very particular about its craft, function, design, style, color and material. In the "tongue of China", many special techniques and methods of ancient features give a gourmet soul and vitality, and a pair of shoes with soul and story.

It is the unique costume art of the Chinese nation. The history of its craft can be pushed back to the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (around 700 B.C.), with the development of the textile industry protruding; the Tang Dynasty made some progress in its production techniques, and gradually became popular in the folk since the Song Dynasty; before 1950s, the embroidered shoes had spread throughout the whole country's urban and rural areas and ethnic minority areas.

Nowadays, it is hard to find, and can only be seen from the remains of frescoes and archaeological excavations. Therefore, it is particularly important to excavate, sort, copy, reshape, and inherit skills.

Status quo: embroidered shoes, the traditional technology to disappear?

Now, the topic of "the traditional craft that will disappear soon -- handmade embroidered shoes" has attracted more and more attention from the society and media.

(1) Ji'nan, Shandong: the traditional handicraft embroidered shoes will soon disappear.

In January 17, 2009, the traditional crafts embroidered cloth shoes were sold on the market in Ji'nan suburb of Shandong.

This kind of cloth shoes are also called tiger head shoes and foot shoes. This kind of shoes is complex and needs to be used.

The technology of making stitches with flowers, seeds and other needles is usually made. The vamp designs are usually embroidered with tiger heads and various colors.

Because of the complexity of the production process, few young people are now learning the production of this kind of shoes, and nowadays few children wear traditional hand-made shoes. As time goes by, these shoes will gradually disappear from our lives.

(two) Zhuang nationality embroidered shoes gradually disappear

In the East Lan county of Hechi City, Guangxi, several women buy Zhuang embroidered shoes at the stalls.

With the rapid development of modern industry, embroidered shoes that reflect the creative work of women and emotional sustenance of Zhuang women are fading away from people's lives.

At present, there are only a handful of Zhuang elderly people in Guangxi who live in Zhuang communities. They can master the production techniques of embroidered shoes. They occasionally make one or two pairs and sell them on street stalls.

(three) the traditional skills of out of print hand-made embroidered shoes fade away.

"In my grandfather's time, ladies and ladies of the aristocracy, warlords, and rich businessmen wanted to buy shoes, and the masters took their shoes and cloth to serve the government, and they ordered tailored embroidered shoes for them in the backyard of these wealthy families."

Mr. Chen Hongyi, the third generation of embroidered shoes in the small garden in west gate, described the situation of the rich ladies buying shoes.

Up to now, the ups and downs of traditional industries have placed several pairs of embroidered shoes which are no longer available for reproduction. This is the product of the last generation's shopkeeper's father's passing down. Now, the master has no longer been able to make this shoe type. In the era of no strong glue and sewing cars, all of them rely on the teachers to roll out the shoes, the wooden shoes and the nails to strike out the bottom shoes and leather. The hard work behind them has evaporated with sweat. Only this dozen pairs of embroidered shoes still retain the elegant demeanor of the times. This small garden embroidered shoe, located in the west of Shanghai, was built in 1936, and opened from 1949 to Taiwan.

In addition to keeping traditional skills, the shopkeeper who has passed on to the third generation also knows how to make new clothes on the cloth, so that guests can put on embroidered shoes for easy clothing. Generally, the embroidered shoes on sale outside are mainly made of nylon cloth, while the embroidered shoes in the small garden include silk, tannin, brocade, linen, cotton and cowboy cloth. The traditional materials and fashion design make their style rich; the shoe pattern is no longer confined to the Dragon Phoenix, mandarin duck, plum blossom and peony that used to represent auspicious wishes. Now there are many flowers and popular pearls on the vamp, and the new cheongsam buckle shoes and Chinese classical style.

Nowadays, the styles of shoes and shoes of various businesses are dazzling, factories are shipped out in large quantities, traditional skills are fading away, and small garden embroidered shoes still carry Chinese culture.

The earliest idea of a shop opened from father to father is handed over to the boss.

In the future, the boss will pass on this sentence to the daughter who is learning to shop, so that the handicraft of withering away, the old shoe store of years and years, with a pair of beautiful embroidered shoes, will still step out of their own way step by step under the gale of modern fashion trend.

Wang Guanqin: to embroider China on the tip of the shoe.

Wang Guanqin is the inheritor of Chinese traditional embroidered shoes culture.

In the past 20 years, she has been fascinated by embroidered shoes, searching for inspiration in literary classics, and producing hundreds of embroidered shoes of various dynasties and various national styles.

The old man said she wanted to embroider China on the tip of her shoe.

The picture shows Wang Guanqin, an old man.

Influenced by his ancestors, Wang Guanqin began to learn embroidered shoes from an early age.

When she was young, she didn't get beaten very little to learn embroidered shoes, but also made her practice a solid foundation of flying needle like a swallow.

After retiring in 1994, Wang Guanqin, like a devil, threw himself into the production of embroidered shoes. Due to his long embroidered shoes and ancient books, Wang Guanqin had problems with his lumbar vertebrae.

Because her shoes were tired, her eyesight also had problems.

Although her family did not understand it, she never gave up. She said, "embroidered shoes are like my children. I can't give up them."

It is precisely because she embroidered shoes as their own children, although many people have proposed buying the works of the elderly, she insisted on "only embroidered do not sell."

She said that she wanted to preserve the image of ancient shoes that she had recovered from her pains, leaving a model that could be followed for later generations.

Because embroidered shoes are not only a shoe, it is mainly embodied in our Chinese culture, so this must be inherited in culture.

Wang Guanqin used "looking for a needle in the sea" to describe her process of searching for embroidered shoes culture. The four masterpieces, Tang poetry, Song Ci and drama became the inspiration for the creation of the elderly.

One of the proud works of the old man, the "phoenix head", is inspired by a sentence in the note of ancient and modern China. "Emperor Qin Shihuang ordered three concubines and nine concubines to crouch."

She said, "embroidering shoes is a selfless state, that feeling is particularly comfortable, and when the peace of mind is created, the works created are more spiritual and more lasting."

Wang Guanqin is known as "master of embroidery shoes design techniques". In 2007, she was awarded the representative of the intangible cultural heritage in Beijing. In 2010, she was invited to create works on embroidered shoes in the series of intangible cultural heritage series, which recorded the contents of the embroidery techniques and historical origins of the elderly. They have been called "China on the shoe tip". In 2014, she published a series of books on embroidered shoes made in Beijing's intangible cultural heritage, which aroused widespread concern in the society.

There are nearly more than 300 pairs of embroidered shoes with distinctive features and styles in the embroidered shoes studio of Wang Guanqin's old man. They have both the Dragon boots worn by emperors and the Phoenix heads worn by imperial concubines.

In addition, the Han Dynasty's hooks, the five performances of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the female officials of the Tang Dynasty, and all the shoes of the Qing Dynasty included everything.

The embroidered shoes made by Mr. Wang attach importance to the color matching of embroidery thread and vamp, shoes and soles, and combine the traditional and modern styles of city and country with embroidery and decoration to make the embroidered shoes have a three-dimensional sense of beauty.

It has unique style, ingenious conception, harmonious color matching and exquisite workmanship. It has strong traditional charm and beautiful beauty. It shows luxurious, elegant and rich style characteristics.

Her embroidered shoes are divided into several series, such as sunset (old age), bride, ancient costume, and so on. Their works have certain value in history, culture, art, collection and so on.

What is the future development of the handmade embroidered shoes, which is going to disappear? The way of the old man's work is to interpret the protection of the embroidered shoes, and to protect the cultural heritage of the embroidered shoes. Combined with the traditional and modern style, she says, she will walk into the campus and popularize the knowledge of embroidered shoes for more students, so that we can not only learn skills, but also combine the material with the culture, and really carry forward the Chinese tradition.

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