Summarize the characteristics of ancient shoes in China, and then introduce the characteristics of shoes in different dynasties, including Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing.

In the Neolithic Age (about 6.5438+0 million years ago-about 4,000 years ago), the ancestors of China made shoes with grass, hemp and kudzu vine. Shoes have many names, such as shoes, shoes and shoes. Among them acenaphthene is the most outstanding.

There are three kinds of shoes in ancient times: kudzu vine, cloth shoes and leather shoes. Cloth shoes refer to shoes made of linen, silk, silk, brocade and other cloth shoes.

In the Han Dynasty (206 BC-23 AD), the toe of cloth shoes and silk shoes were mostly fork-shaped and the bottom was woven with hemp thread, which was called double pointed square shoes.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties (AD 220-AD 3 16), the front end of ordinary shoes was woven with double animal patterns, with harmonious color matching and beautiful shoes.

During the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 AD), shoes were popular from the emperor to the people. Wood-toothed shoes consist of three parts: flat shoes, strap shoes and toothed shoes.

According to legend, Sun Bin was the ancestor of boots in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, which were widely popular in the north and spread to the south of the Yangtze River.

Xian Yi was an official in the Tang Dynasty (it was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that the people were forbidden to wear boots, and only bureaucrats could wear boots).

In the Song Dynasty (960- 1297), men wore leather shoes with small heads, while women wore shoes with round heads, flat heads or upturned heads, and the shoes were decorated with various flower and bird patterns.

Women's cloth shoes with high toes and flat bottom began to appear at the end of Yuan Dynasty, which made people look particularly slender. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, only rich women were allowed to bind their feet. The soles of arched shoes in this period were 4-5 inches high. In the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the "three-inch golden lotus" of Han women won the favor of Manchu women. The Qing government repeatedly banned foot-binding by flag bearers, but after repeated bans, many flag girls followed suit, and the wind of foot-binding was extremely strong. There are many styles of bow shoes, including sleeping shoes, changing shoes, pointed shoes, stepping shoes, net shoes, lotus shoes, cotton shoes, overshoes, mourning shoes, Kun shoes and face-closing shoes. Exquisite bow shoes are embroidered with auspicious patterns on the toe, sole, shoe lining and upper, and the bow shoes of rich women are also decorated with pearls and other ornaments.

In the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368- A.D. 1644), men's shoes were mostly thick soles with various materials and styles. Diamond shoes are generally worn in the north, and brown Ma Xie is found in the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, women's cloth shoes with high toes and flat bottoms were popular in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. It makes people look particularly slender.

During the Qing dynasty, men's shoes were mainly pointed shoes, with satin in summer and autumn and velvet in winter. They are divided into thick soles and thin soles, with single or double beams on the surface and embroidered uppers or curly heads on the toes. Women's shoes in Qing Dynasty are the most distinctive. Most soles are made of wood, and the height varies from one inch to five inches. The shape of the bottom is wide at the top and round at the bottom, which is called "horseshoe bottom", also known as "flowerpot bottom". The vamp is usually made of silk and satin with colorful embroidery on it. Some aristocratic women will also set various gems on the vamp, which is particularly tall and straight. However, due to the inconvenience of walking, elderly women or people with low status often wear wooden flat shoes.

A brief history of world shoes

In 8000 BC, in Missouri, traces of shoes of Native Americans were found.

In 3300 BC, an ice merchant who died in a high mountain in France left a pair of primitive shoes woven with grass.

Oil paintings of shoes or shoemakers can be found in temples in Egypt in 3000 BC.

Barefoot in AD 100 was the most fundamental difference in clothing between Greek slaves and freemen.

In 200 AD, the Roman emperor Kyle Aurili announced that no one was allowed to wear red sandals except him and his heirs.

/kloc-Knights in the 0/5th century all wore shoes with long toe caps (24 inches long), and the laws that have always advocated frugality clearly stipulated the length of toe caps.

High heels were invented in the early16th century under the influence of Leonardo da Vinci.

/kloc-In the mid-6th century, 30-inch high-heeled shoes were popular all over southern Europe.

As one of the most popular decorations, shoelaces appeared in1early 7th century.

At the end of 17, due to mistranslation, Cinderella's flannel slippers in French fairy tales became Cinderella's crystal shoes.

/kloc-it took nearly a hundred years to finally replace the traditional shoe-making method in the middle of the 0/8th century, and the first shoe factory appeared. Soon, the first shoe store appeared in Boston.

Flat shoes and Greek sandals were very popular in the early19th century.

The first pair of sports shoes (also known as rubber-soled canvas shoes) appeared in the middle of19th century. Subsequently, Elias and Howe invented the first sewing machine.

/kloc-at the end of 0/9, buttons, an indispensable ornament of clothing, were also applied to shoes, and soon became a fashion standard.

Before this century, the shoemaker, like a carpenter, a blacksmith and a tailor, was a humble profession. The design of shoes is not considered as an independent work of art, but a part of the whole shoemaking process.