Hop Village Embroidered Shoes Won The Gold Medal Of Zhejiang Tiger Shoes Competition

Three inch Golden Lotus, hi shoes, longevity shoes, spring shoes.

These days, the whole village was stitched into an art gallery by silk thread.

This is the experimental base for the construction of embroidered shoes in the new rural mass culture business in Zhejiang province.

Along the ups and downs of the roadway, the roadside Shimen plate, Shimen mortar, and all kinds of embroidered shoes and insoles hanging from the doorways of every household are seen vividly.

"As early as the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the villagers began to make embroidered shoes."

Li Fenge, an old woman with embroidered shoes on the side of the village, said that the history of the embroidered shoes in the village was much longer than that in her hand. The local women began to embroider their shoes from childhood. They could not get out of the door and had two doors. They spent more than ten years to embroider their shoes. The production and embroidery level of embroidered shoes had always been a prerequisite for a girl to be clever and dexterity.

Far from being famous, the embroidered shoes of the village are different from other embroidered shoes. Embroidery techniques follow the aesthetic fashion of Oriental decoration, pay attention to the rules of shoe upper and the presentation of upper shoes, and match with the technical decoration of shoes and shoes.

The colorful silk thread is embroidered from the toe to the heel, even the sole and the insole.

These embroidered themes come from life; Reo Takako, a hundred flowers, two butterfly flowers, dragon flying dance......

These auspicious patterns symbolize the praise of life and a happy life.

In 2006, the handcraft of "he village embroidered shoes" was appraised as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in Hangzhou.

From generation to generation, the ancient techniques of embroidered shoes are handed down. On the shoe materials of the square feet, the villagers of the village speak of the aesthetic concepts, cultural traditions, ethics and fashion values of various dynasties.

Today, the village people regard shoes as a mascot, and the three generation embroidery girl Jiang Genhua laughs, because "shoes" and "harmony" and "Chi" homophones contain the meaning of "harmony".

At the age of 13, he began to work as a hand-made apprenticeship shoe maker, Mao Wenyong, who had over 50 years of history of cloth shoes. He was a famous local shoe shoemaker in Hangzhou, and also the first batch of intangible cultural heritage successors in Hangzhou. Many people came to ask him to make shoes from the field.

I remember in the past few years, in order to save the embroidered shoes, Mao Wenyong sold embroidered insoles in cloth shoes, but unexpectedly, these embroidered handicrafts, such as "fish opera Lotus", "butterfly love flower" and "Peony Phoenix", brought a new world to the well embroidered villagers.

"With orders, you can inherit the skills of embroidered shoes," said Chen Aihua, a folk artist who worked in the village in the past 60 years.

Since last year's receipt of the order of Shanghai World Expo, Chen Aihua began to ponder how to make the embroidered shoes of the village more far.

"Inheritance is more than restoring techniques."

Chen Aihua took out the newly embroidered flower of Chimonanthus praecox. A petal was embroidered with a single color line. One used at least several lines with similar colors. The gold was embroidered together and lifelike. "This is the addition of modern embroidery techniques, with a more stereoscopic sense, which is called inheritance."

Inheritance means the continuation of vitality.

Jin Wei, head of Hehei village, said that in August last year, Hehei village invested in the heritage base of "embroidered shoes making techniques", and specially formulated the "Five Year Plan" to inherit embroidered shoes. Chen Aihua and veteran artist Ma Genying shoulder the important task of innovation and inheritance of the R & D center. Chen Ai Hua is responsible for digging new seedlings in this township, and Ma Genying is looking for information everywhere.

"I have to attend more than 10 exhibitions all over the country a year, not to sell products, but to bring back the echo of embroidered shoes."

Ma Genying pointed to a tiger's shoe hanging ornament at the window. Last year, a customer said he wanted to buy a pair of embroidered shoes to hang on the wall to seek evil spirits.

This reminds him that embroidered shoes can also be made into decorations, hanging on walls, cars and bodies.

Now, the development of tiger shoes has been selling crazy.

Not long ago, the village invited the provincial and provincial embroidery masters, free training villagers, open new ideas.

In the R & D center, three inch of Golden Lotus handicraft, Jiangnan tiger shoes and other creative products are placed in full display. This is the result of more than 400 villagers participating in the design training.

He knows that the embroidered shoes that contain the perfect combination of shoe culture and embroidery art are handicrafts created by the Chinese nation and are truly "Chinese shoes".

At the moment, he village is looking forward to it. The embroidered shoes on the Shanghai World Expo stage can shine brilliantly and come into the eyes of more foreigners.