What Shoes Did Women Wear In The Qing Dynasty?

< p > 100 years ago, Chinese women judged whether they were beautiful or not. The most important criterion was not that they had beautiful appearance and full figure, but that their feet were small. "Three inch Golden Lotus" was a judgement on women's aesthetics at that time. In the home of Mr. He Zhihua, a connoisseur in the Qing Dynasty, the reporter saw a pair of "three inch Golden Lotus" with exquisite workmanship and vanished. Most of these "Golden Lotus" are smaller than the palm of the reporter. < /p >
Less than P, foot binding, which is a common name, which is famous for its opium intake and men's braids, has been listed as the three most scandalous and barbarous things in modern Chinese society. The evil trend of male worship in the patriarchal society has been going on for thousands of years from generation to generation. Folklore believes that foot binding in China began in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Commonly known as "three inch Golden Lotus", the shoes resembling the head of the head, the sole is wooden, curved like a bow, so called "arched shoes". The bow shoes originally refer to the curved bottom shoes, and generally refer to the feet shoes worn by women. < /p >
< p > there were provisions in the yuan and Ming dynasties that only women who had rich families had feet binding. The shoes of this period are 4 to 5 inches high. In the Qing Dynasty, the "three inch Golden Lotus" of Han women was very popular among Manchu women. The Qing government banned the banners' foot binding for many times, but repeatedly banned them. Many flag girls were still imitated. Arched shoes have many styles, such as sleeping shoes, changing shoes, pointed shoes, tramway shoes, net shoes, lotus shoes, cotton shoes, slippers, shoes, Kun shoes and face shoes. The exquisite bow shoes are embroidered with various auspicious patterns on the toe, sole, shoes and upper, and the rich women's bow shoes are also decorated with jewellery and ornaments < /p >.
< p > boots: the form of the following "overshoes" and the upper "trousers" are popular in the late Qing Dynasty and flourished in Hebei and Shandong. < /p >
< p > net shoes: it was popular in the Ming Dynasty and distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Gansu and other places. The toe is sharp, conical, and the upper is made of two threads. < /p >
< p > hi shoes: the bride wears a yellow or red color. It is also called "Hi boots", "upper hall shoes" and "trampling shoes". < /p >
< p > cusp shoes: the most popular form at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The upper is made up of two pieces and the toe is thin and sharp. When walking, only a thin narrow pointed toe is exposed. < /p >
< p > overshoes: the most commonly used shoes at home in the late Qing Dynasty in Hebei and Shandong. The soles of the soles are bent in the middle, such as bows, some of which are embedded in the small golden bell, and are walking along the road. Sleeping shoes: to avoid loosening the bedding cloth while sleeping, you need to put on your sleeping shoes when you sleep. < /p >
< p > square mouth two cut shoes: popular in the Republic of China for about twenty years, mostly made by shoe stores. It is made up of three pieces of upper, an olive shape in front and two sides in the back, /p.
< p > bottom shoes: the Qing Dynasty was popular in Xi'an, Lanzhou and Shanxi. The heel is very high, and the tip of the shoe is often decorated with a chicken head and a phoenix shaped head. It looks nice, but it is very inconvenient to walk. < /p >