The Origin And Development History Of Chinese Leather Shoes

Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of human beings wore them.

The habit of using animal skins to wrap up and make leather shoes to modern leather shoes has a long history in leather shoes.

According to legend, when Huang Di was in office, he used to use leather to build doors and make leather shoes.

This can be said to be the origin of Chinese leather shoes.

Tanning and tanning in Shang and Zhou Dynasties

The production technology has been very mature. Many of the inscriptions on the bronze ware of Western Zhou Dynasty include the production of leather shawls, leather aprons, raw leather, drum skin, shoes, cheese skin, dyed skin and raw board.

At that time, there were five official positions: "gold, jade, leather, work and stone".

It can be seen that leather production and leather shoes production were quite developed at that time, so that full-time officials in the court should be managed.

According to historical records, Yi Yin, the Prime Minister of the Shang Dynasty, used "leather to make shoes" and calculated that the history of shoes made in China was more than 3000 years ago.

The modern leather shoes making technology has been pmitted from abroad to China for a long time, only 100 years.

In the Warring States period, Sun Bin, a famous strategist, joined the pun in his youth to learn the art of war.

Later, Pang Juan became a general in Wei state.

He knew he could not reach Sun Bin and conspire against him.

One day, he invited Sun Bin to Wei du (Kaifeng) in Henan today, and he used the punishment (kneecap) on Sun Bing to make him handicapped and put it under house arrest.

Later, he was helped by Qi envoys and secretly returned to Qi state.

He also recommended Tian Ji to Qiwei king. Wei Wang asked about the art of war.

Sun Bin, for the sake of Pang Juan's broken feet, personally directed 100 thousand drill soldiers.

But because of the fact that both feet could not walk and could not be supported, the design of the two parts of the tiptop (shoe upper) and sole was designed based on the original leather shoes, and the wooden shoe last was made. The shoemaker used hard leather to make a pair of "Gao Yong Zi shoes" according to the pattern.

These high waist leather boots are divided into two parts: the bottom and the bottom. They are the embryonic form of modern leather shoes. They can be considered as the originals of leather shoes in the world. The first pair of leather shoes in the world were born in China.

Sun Bin put on these leather shoes and depended on the supporting power of the stiffer boots and shoes.

So he took command of the 100 thousand army.

The victory of the Wei army and the defeat of Pang Juan were defeated by the tactics of "overthrowing and overcoming the deficiency", "walking the beam" and "attacking the enemy to rescue".

The war took place in 353 B.C., and was called the battle of Qi and Wei Guiling (northeast of Heze, Shandong) in history.

Sun Bin created the first pair of leather shoes sutured to the bottom, which is a great pioneering work in the history of shoemaking.

Later, some famous shoemaking teachers hung the portrait of Sun Bin at home to commemorate him, remembrance.

At that time, anyone who had a portrait of Sun Bin showed that he was making shoes for his career.

Sun Bin was later praised as "the ancestor of shoemaking".

Modern leather shoes are from abroad.

Originally used in China

Shoes that are made are called boots, and the styles are different.

It is divided into several categories because of its poor usage.

If you wear a single bottom fast boot, the shape is similar to the clam type cotton cloth shoes; horse riding boots are called riding boots; in rainy days, they are called nail shoes, which are made of leather and bottom, and iron nails are underneath the soles.

This "spiked shoes" became very popular in 20s.

In 1876, there were self-made leather shoes in Shanghai. At that time, there was a shoemaker named Shen Binggen in Pudong.

He used to make leather shoes for rainy days. Later, foreign leather shoes entered Shanghai. Shen Binggen also made repairs and shoes polishing business.

He is an ambitious man who carefully ponders and studies the style and structure of leather shoes during the repair and repair of leather shoes.

The first pair of modern leather shoes, including "straight foot" shoes with no feet and feet, evolved into shoes with split feet, which is a major development of Chinese shoemaking technology.

Since then, China's modern leather shoes production has been gradually developed.

In 1876, Shen Binggen raised funds in Shanghai Yongan street to set up the first modern leather shoes factory in China, with many apprentices, thus the technology of making leather shoes spread, and Shanghai gradually formed the leather shoes industry.

Many old workers in Shanghai, regardless of whether they know or not, mention Shen Binggen. They all respect him and call him "the founder of modern leather shoes" in China.

Leather shoes are usually made up of upper, sole, heel, inner Baotou and main heels.