What is the development history of Chinese shoes

During the Neolithic era, Chinese ancestors used grass, hemp and kudzu to weave shoes. There were many names for shoes, such as "Li", "Lu", "Yi", etc. Among them, acenaphthene was the most prominent. Among them, acenaphthene is the most prominent.

The types of shoes in ancient times can be categorized into three kinds: kudzu, cloth shoes and leather shoes. Cloth shoes are shoes made of hemp, silk, silk, brocade and other cloth shoes. In the Han Dynasty, the toes of cloth and silk shoes were mostly split, and the bottoms were woven with hemp threads, which were called double-pointed shoes. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the front end of the shoes was usually woven with double animal motifs, with a harmonious color scheme and beautiful shoes; during the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was popular to wear shoes with wooden teeth from the emperor down to the people, with flat shoes, lace-up shoes, and shoes with teeth.

Men in the Song Dynasty wore shoes with small heads, and women wore shoes with round, flat or upturned heads, which were also decorated with various patterns of flowers and birds.

Men's shoes in the Ming Dynasty were mostly thick-soled and made of a variety of materials and styles. Generally speaking, they wore diamond-shaped shoes in the north and brown hemp shoes in Jiangnan. In addition, women's cloth shoes with high toes and flat soles were also popular in the late Yuan and early Ming. It makes people look extraordinarily slender.

Men's shoes in the Qing Dynasty were mainly pointed shoes, with the material of satin in summer and fall, and velvet in winter. It is thick and thin bottom, the surface of a single beam or double beam, the upper part of the thorn or toe cap for the Ruyi head rolled clouds; women's shoes in the Qing Dynasty are still quite distinctive. Their soles are mostly wooden, ranging from one inch to five inches high, with a wide top and rounded bottom, known as the 'horseshoe sole'. The uppers of these shoes were usually made of silk and satin, to which colorful embroidery was applied. Some aristocratic women also inlaid the uppers with a variety of My Brilliant Life pearls. Older women wore wooden flat shoes.

Boots, originally worn by nomads in northern China, were also called 'horse boots' and 'high boots'. The styles of boots include dry boots, flower boots, leather boots, felt boots, single boots, cotton boots, cloud boots, goose top boots and so on.

During the period of the North and South Dynasties, boots were widely popular in the north and spread to the south of the Yangtze River. By the Tang Dynasty, boots were officially in Xianyi; women's boots appeared in the Song Dynasty; by the Yuan Dynasty, Korean boots were prevalent; and by the Ming Dynasty, although the court ordered that ordinary people be forbidden to wear boots, there were still a lot of short boots that looked like boots. In the Qing Dynasty, men wore civilian clothes, mainly shoes, and men wore official clothes, only boots. The boots were mostly made of satin, velvet and cloth, and the face boots were square-toe boots, while the folk were all pointed boots.

Folklorists believe that foot binding in China began in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Commonly known as 'three-inch golden lotus', the shoes are shaped like a bird's head, and the soles are wooden and bent like a bow, so they are called 'bow shoes'. Bow shoes initially referred to shoes with curved soles, and later generalized to small footwear worn by women with footbinding.

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that only women from wealthy families were allowed to have their feet entangled. Bow shoes of this period had 4-5 inch high soles. By the Qing Dynasty, Han Chinese women's 'three-inch golden lotus' won over Manchu women. The Qing government banned foot-binding for flag bearers on several occasions, but the ban was repeated, and many flag bearers still practiced as they did, and foot-binding was extremely prevalent. There are many styles of shoes, including sleeping shoes, changing shoes, pointed shoes, foot-stomping shoes, tennis shoes, lotus shoes, cotton shoes, set of shoes, funeral shoes, kun shoes, and Hop Face shoes. The delicate bow shoes are embroidered with various auspicious patterns on the toe, sole, inside and upper. The bow shoes of women from rich families are decorated with pearls and other ornaments.

In China, sandals first evolved from slippers. Slippers, anciently known as shoes, began