A few years ago, Mr. Zhang Qilong talked to me about young people's shoes, and yesterday he left a message asking me to talk about the problem of young people's shoes from the perspective of traditional folk customs.
To put it bluntly, it means to wear shoes without mentioning the back upper, and directly press the upper down with the back of the foot, and walk to form a pull shoe.
Why do people destroy shoes and don't mention them? Besides, it also brings inconvenience to walking.
When it comes to slippers, there are deep customs behind this. Only during the death of parents and the period of filial piety, do they pull shoes. Why do people pull on their shoes at funerals?
As the saying goes, "The head of filial piety flows everywhere." "In the abundant area, there is a funeral at home, and those who come to mourn filial piety and help, in addition to their own surnames, they will kowtow to people with foreign surnames when they see them, and they will be exempted from three generations during this period.
Even if someone with a foreign surname usually calls you grandfather, your parents are old, and you have to kowtow to him. The father-in-law wants to kowtow to his son-in-law, and the son-in-law wants to return the courtesy.
Parents died, children were overly sad, their voices were hoarse, filial sons kowtowed and their faces were covered with mud, their filial clothes were unclean, their shoes were stretched, and their faces were full of sadness. This is a true portrayal, showing that the filial son is sad, regardless of his appearance, he doesn't care about mentioning his shoes, and he is not in the mood to mention it.
Over time, the shoes have become a filial piety etiquette, and they have also become a symbol of filial piety for thousands of years.
Before the Qing Dynasty, there was a three-year ritual of filial piety, and as long as people saw someone pulling shoes on the road or on the street, they knew that their parents had died less than three years ago. Therefore, people usually taboo to pull shoes, and no one will pull shoes without mourning!
There should be a deep taboo about slipping shoes. Nowadays, some young people like to take slip shoes as fashion, deliberately step on the back upper and wear it on their feet, indicating leisure, expressing individuality, and showing youth and uninhibitedness. Walking on the street deliberately smells, but I really don't know how to pee!
Summer is coming, and there are many girls who wear shoes. Teacher Zhang Qilong is a person with traditional education, and when he sees the shoes on the street, he has an inexplicable anger.
You can disrespect others, but you can't disrespect your own parents, you may not know etiquette, but you must know taboos! This is not superstition, this is the traditional custom of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.
Public order and good customs must be observed! There is an inexplicable magnetic field in the world, isn't pulling shoes just cursing one's parents to death?
Mr. Zhang also asked me to explain what it means to "poop and poop to the root of the shoe leaves, can't mention it", which is a common saying in the abundant area, which means that someone has a very poor moral character and can't mention it!
2024 was written four days after the rain in the valley
About author:Ji Langyou, a scholar of local literature and history, has a special collection of century-old textbooks and has cooperated with local museums for many exhibitions.