Have you ever seen this kind of straw shoe?
These few days of cooling down, I suddenly remembered the straw shoes I wore when I was a child. It is particularly warm and you can walk on the mud and snow, because the bottom is thick and it is also vaccinated by tide. If you wear cotton shoes, the road that encounters mud and snow will soon get wet, and you can't dry for ten days and half a month. The disadvantage of grass shoes is that they are bulky and grind their feet. Therefore, when wearing it, you must wrap it in a shroud, otherwise the socks will be worn out at once, and the feet will hurt.
The sole of the straw shoe is mostly made of paulownia, because the paulownia is lighter and lighter to wear. Drill a small hole in the side and connect it with a strong hemp thread and the upper upper.
The upper of the shoe upper is made of reed cherry blossoms and hemp silk, which is stuffed with some soft wheat straw, which seems simple, but it looks good and easy to wear if you want to twist it, but it is not so easy, and it is also a technical job. The straw shoes twisted by people with poor skills are like old turtle nests, and the twisted grass shoes with good skills are as beautiful as the official boots worn by singing on the stage.
The soles of shoes can be thick or thin, and the general elderly wear thin points and walk steadily. Young people can wear a little thicker, and some will add two pieces of wood to the bottom of the shoe, walk like stilts, can walk on mud, and are not afraid of wet feet. It was just walking up and clicking, and I heard it from afar.
I once had a teacher who loved to wear straw shoes in winter. Before anyone had entered the classroom, they heard the sound of walking in the distance. It clicks like the Japanese walking on clogs in the movie.
In fact, there were clogs in ancient China, and straw shoes are only one of them.
The Song Dynasty Ye Shaoweng's "Garden Visits Are Not Worth It" wrote:
You should pity the teeth to print the moss, and the small buckle wood door will not be opened for a long time.
The spring color of the garden could not be closed, and a red apricot branch came out of the wall.
The teeth here are wooden shoes, and the soles have high heels in front of and behind them, called cavities.
I think it should be like the raised straw shoes we wear, because our hometown dialect calls that kind of straw shoes also call mud claws.
When I was a child, I ran wildly in the snow and water in my grass shoes, running for a while, my shoes were full of snow, and when I met anyone who was roasting the fire, I would surround me, take off my straw shoes, take off the shroud and bake it on the fire, and the wet athlete's foot would be roasted into steaming heat and disappear. Then wrap it in a hot shroud and it's very warm. Some people do not have to wrap their feet by hand, but only cover the shroud on the mouth of the straw shoe, and automatically wrap it up and put it on when they go down.
Wearing straw shoes to walk the snow is more troublesome, because the snow will quickly stick to the bottom of the shoe, step higher and higher, and become a large round ball, making people stand unsteadily. After a short walk, you have to remove the snow under the soles of the shoes on the corners of the walls and on the trunks. Therefore, if you go a long way, it is best not to wear straw shoes. Otherwise, halfway to the road, there is snow everywhere, and if you want to find a brick with snow, you will wait to step on stilts and cry.
When the snow closed the door, wearing a pair of straw shoes, sitting at home, whether it was spinning rope, playing cards, making needles and threads, nagging would not freeze the foot pain. In the era of limited conditions, grass shoes can really be said to be a kind of cold artifact.
Later, the living conditions were better, and all kinds of cotton shoes replaced grass shoes, and young people did not look good and did not wear them. The dirt roads have also been built into cement roads, and straw shoes have slowly withdrawn from the stage of history. Now people want to see it again, and they may have to go to the museum to see it.