On the morning of February 4, the CCTV news channel "Chaowen Tianxia" column broadcast "Shandong Xiajin: Good Things Become a Pair of Tiger Head Shoes, Safe and Auspicious Tight Seams", reporting on the sewing of tiger head shoes by Zhang Xiaoyun, a non-hereditary inheritor of Xia jin during the New Year Festival. The full text is as follows:
In the Spring Festival, many people will choose to buy a pair of tiger head shoes for their children, which means peace and auspiciousness. In Xiajin County, Dezhou, Shandong, the old craft of sewing tiger head shoes has been integrated with the times in the hands of the inheritor Zhang Xiaoyun and has a new brilliance. Bright colors and vivid shapes all carry infinite blessings.
After entering the Waxing Moon, Zhang Xiaoyun was busy, while designing new shoe patterns, while taking her sisters to work, in the past month has sold five or six hundred pairs of tiger head shoes, small tiger head shoes, a stitch and a thread contain peace and auspicious blessings.
Zhang Xiaoyun, the non-hereditary heir of Xia Jin's tiger head shoes, introduced: "The mouth is sewn with five stitches, which means five grains and five blessings. The white beard means that the child will live a long life and a hundred years. The heel of the shoe is embroidered with a word 'Fu', which means that the child has a post-blessing. Then make a tape, called 'generations are blessed'. ”
With the change of the times, the embroidery style is changing, and what has not changed is people's attachment to tradition and blessings for children. Nowadays, tiger head shoes are not only worn on children's feet, but also collected as crafts by many enthusiasts. Zhang Xiaoyun hopes that one day the tiger head shoes can go to the world, so that more people can feel the blessings and auspiciousness it conveys.