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Ancient Clogs = Modern High Heels?

2010/8/14 16:06:00 424

Recently, reporters found a seemingly unremarkable alley near the west gate of yam Shui. According to local residents, this lane is called clogs lane. As the name suggests, it is a street in the past, which is mainly made and sold by clogs. The east of the clog lane is connected with the warehouse lane, and the West mohou road is about 100 meters long, with many old cottages on both sides. Among them, 10 of the wooden clogs Lane once was a "guild hall".

Clogs are toothed "shoes" equivalent to modern "high-heeled shoes".

When it comes to clogs, you can't say clogs. Now few people may know clogs. It is a wooden sole worn by the ancients. The ancients called shoes "shoes", "clogs" is a toothed "shoes", its structure is usually composed of three parts: first, the bottom plate, which is the foundation of "clogs", usually for wood, for sole shape, drill holes with several holes, to wear rope system; two is rope belt, is called "department"; three is the gear teeth, is installed under the bottom plate, the front and rear one is vertical, flat, square and cylinder, and so on, the height is 6-8 centimeters, the height is roughly equal. In the film and TV drama of Qing Dynasty palace, the queen, "Ge Ge" and the ladies in court wear many shoes similar to clog, but the material is different. Clogs are good for texture and toughness, common mulberry logs made of mulberry wood, and "wooden clogs" made of sandtang wood. In the tenth chapter of the dream of Red Mansions, Bao Yu said, "this is a complete set of me, a pair of Tong clogs, only to wear it and get off under the eaves". Clog .

Ancient clogs

In ancient times, there were no asphalt and cement pavements. Even the six capital cities such as the Six Dynasties, only the main streets were paved with "slates and stones". Other places were muddy dirt roads, where the rain was muddy, and the clogs were wooden boards at the bottom, plus double teeth. Sole The height has increased, and the contact area with the ground has decreased. Rubber boots In ancient times, clogging became an ideal choice for ordinary people to deal with the muddy days of rain and snow. {page_break}

Ancient clogs

Then, when and when did the clogs be invented? According to Liu Jingshu's "Yuan Yuan" in the Southern Song Dynasty, in the Song Dynasty, more than 600 years ago, Jin Wen Gong was expelled from his father and exiled in the palace. In the Late Jin Dynasty, Wen Gong returned to the throne of Jin State under the protection of Emperor Qin Mugong, and when he was courting his courtiers wandering away, he forgot the Jie Zi. When he remembered, he pushed his mother to hide in the mountains. Jin Wen Gong took a man to seek an interview. Unexpectedly, he pushed away and disappeared. Jin Wen Gong set fire to the mountain. He wanted to force him to come out. Unexpectedly, he pushed his old mother to hold a willow tree and was burned to death. Wen Gong looked sad, and cut down the trees that had not been burned by tears. Whenever we recall the work done by the meson to cut the brachial work, we will caress and mourn: "sorrow is enough!"

Although there are no brilliant history and famous figures in the clogs lane, when it comes to old names, Clog Alley is often mentioned. The reason for this is that the ancient shoe making industry has been relatively developed, and since its close proximity to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the clogging lane has always been a commentary street in the business gathering area. In the past, there were many clothes and shoes and caps as the geographical names: the evaluation hall, the embroidery lane, Gauze hat Lane , such as helmet lane, cotton shoe battalion, clogs lane, etc. There are also "five elements" to "rank", such as "Jin Suan, clog lane, Shui Zuo Gang, Huo wa Xiang, Tu Cheng tou". Not only that, clogs also created another poetic name, that is Pipa alley.

Pipa lane is similar to the ancient one. In the old Pipa lane, there was a ditch in the middle of the road. The stone slab was covered with slate, and the stone slab was loose and dense. On rainy days, pedestrians wear clogs and walk on them. Ding Dong sounds like playing pipa, so they have the romantic reputation of Pipa lane.

The plate worn by summer people is clogs.

In the 60s and 70s of last century, before the popularity of plastic sandals and plastic slippers, many people wore wooden boards in summer, and wooden boards without teeth. They were made of logs, and the boards made of shoes were made smooth by grinding, and then they were made of "canvas" or "belt" as a "shoe upper", which was very convenient to wear. At that time, there was a "car wood" workshop specializing in wood processing, producing wooden buzzes and gyroscopes in winter, and processing wooden boards in hot weather.

At that time, there were so many people who wore boards, and at night, there were wooden clad boards on the stone or pebble paved roads.