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The Origin Of Manchu Women Wearing High Heels

2010/4/7 14:08:00 31

Those who like to see the Qing palace dramas must be no stranger to the high heels worn by women on the feet of the Hakkas, and watch the girls running up and down with their high shoes.

Such a strange shoe style has become a distinct feature of court costumes in Qing Dynasty and court costumes of other dynasties. What exactly is this shoe?

How high is it?

Ancient women's feet are beautiful, called "three inch Golden Lotus". This extreme aesthetic emotion began in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

After the five generation, the atmosphere gradually became popular and swept the whole society.

In the Song Dynasty, women's golden lotus feet had already come to the world with the beautiful peony of Luoyang and the fragrant tea of Jian Zhou.

In the Yuan Dynasty, if a woman did not bind her feet, it would be regarded as a great shame.

In the two dynasties of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the wind of foot binding was especially popular, while Han women wore more bow shoes than Manchu women.

After entering the Central Plains, influenced by the Han culture, the wind of foot binding is increasing.

Although Manchu women never foot bindings, according to the general aesthetic standards, big feet are definitely not beautiful.

In order to solve this problem, Manchu women invented a kind of high sole shoes, hiding their feet in the clothing group, and will not be easily displayed.

In addition, there are still other reasons for Manchu women to wear high sole shoes.

According to one theory, Manchus are said to have the custom of "cutting wood for shoes" since ancient times. Manchurian women used to collect wild fruits and mushrooms on the mountain, so that they could bite insects and snakes.

Sole

The wooden blocks were then tied up and made more sophisticated and developed into high sole shoes.

In addition, there is a legend that the ancestors of Manchu people learned the appearance of white crane and tied high tree branches on their shoes in order to cross the mud pit and take back the city occupied by the enemy. Finally, they won the victory and achieved the goal of revenge and growth.

In order not to forget those miserable days, and to commemorate the merits of high shoes, women wore such shoes and passed on from generation to generation, becoming more and more beautiful and beautiful, thus becoming a very national dress, called flag type Kun shoes.

Flag type Kun shoes can be classified: a kind of high inch, front and rear micro vacant, known as "inch bottom shoes."

There is also a shoe sole with a middle height of several inches, a medium fine, and a lower bottom square, called "high sole shoes", commonly known as "horseshoe bottom" or "flower pot bottom".

Silk shoes of this kind of wooden floor are usually decorated with embroidery or beads because of the wooden places where they can not reach the ground. They are named "horseshoe bottom" because of the shape of the sole of the shoe. The bottom of the other shoe is flowerpot shape, so it is called "flower pot bottom shoe". The middle sole of the shoe is generally 5-10 centimeters tall, and some can reach 14-16 centimeters, and the highest can reach 25 centimeters.

Usually wrapped in white cloth, then placed in the middle of the sole of the shoe.

The shape of the heel usually has two kinds, one is open and convergent, and the other is the inverted trapezoidal flowerpot.

The other is the upper and lower width, the front and the back, the shape and the floor mark are horseshoe.

Named "flower pot bottom" and "horseshoe bottom".

Besides the embroidered patterns or decorative pieces such as cicada butterflies, wooden parts are also often decorated with embroidery or beads.

Some of the shoe tips are decorated with silk thread, which is long and accessible.

The heel of these shoes is strong, often with broken shoes, and sole still intact.

The shoes of high bottom flags are mostly worn by middle-aged and young women aged over thirteen and over, wearing these shoes, walking on the road, graceful and graceful, dignified and graceful.

The flag shoes worn by old women and working women are flat and wooden embroidered shoes, also known as "net cloud shoes".

Manchu

Women's Shoes

There are embroidered flowers on the surface, and socks are mostly cloth. The bottom of the stockings is also patterned. The front ends of the socks are slightly sharpened, so that they can walk.

Source:

Huicong shoe net