Marriage Custom Of China's Millennium Shoe Culture

Shoes are an important part of clothing culture. In ancient China, shoes were widely known as "full clothes". Besides having decorative functions, some shoes were marked by grades. In ancient times, Chinese people even had very strict etiquette standards.

　　 Marriage custom of Chinese shoe culture

Olive shoes

Maonan people, young men and women, feel good about each other. On the night of the moon, they invite each other to the flower yard to talk about each other's heart and love their affection. They call it "sitting on the night". As long as the two sides are willing to make a hundred years of good luck, they will give each other token when they are sitting at night.

Girls generally give young men a pair of "olive shoes", that is, with the sole of the white line to form a group of square cloth shoes. A young man usually gives the girl a "flower bamboo hat", giving each other token to represent two people who have entrusted their lifelong happiness to each other.

Annual shoes

Shoes play a role in linking up the feelings of young men and women in the mud race. Under normal circumstances, the Mu nationality girl secretly measured the size of her lover's feet in the "walking slope" activity, sewed according to the size of the fine needle thread, made the shoes and made them steamed for more than ten minutes, then dried them, and gave them to him as a token of affection when they met with their lovers. Because the gift is the same age, so this shoe is commonly known as "the same year shoes".

Flower clogs

The folk customs of the Jing nationality are more interesting. After the love between men and women, the man asked the matchmaker to send a self made love silk and a colorful wooden clogs with flowers into the woman's house. The girl also took out a flower crow from the girl's room. If the two sides match the right and left sides of the crow, this is a natural match for the lover; if it does not match, it means that there is no relationship between lovers. After the matching of flower cages, the gift box is selected for the selection period, which is called "flower delivery cages".

　　 Silk shoes

In the northern part of the Han Dynasty, when the Han nationality was married, men had to send silk shoes to the ladies' families to take auspicious harmony, and they would never be separated from each other. At the same time, silk shoes also include new women wearing silk shoes and sedan chairs. They use silk and flax to be tough and harmonious. So as a gift for marriage, shoes also contain auspicious harmony.

　　 Pair shoes

When the family of Wuhu in Anhui prepares their own wedding for their daughter, they will each pair a pair of shoes for the bride and bridegroom. The locals also put the bride's shoes in the shoes of the groom. When the bride gets married, she brings her shoes to her husband's home. In Hefei, on the wedding day, when the bride enters a bridal chamber, she exchanges shoes with the groom. The bride and groom wear each other's shoes, "homing shoes" and "homing" homophones.

　　 Son-in-law shoes

The "Dao son-in-law shoes" of the Han nationality in the south of the Yangtze River is the ceremony for the bride to enter the sedan chair for the first time to enter the husband's house. That is to say, the bridal sedan chair must be replaced by the shoes of the groom, so it is also called "stepping shoes". "Shoes" harmonics. Symbolize the meaning of "old age".

Shoe changing

When the Naxi people do their wedding in Lijiang, they welcome the bride to the house, and the bride first gives her parents a pair of shoes. At the entrance to the bridal chamber, the woman delivered a pair of shoes to the bridegroom and threw them to the bottom of the new bed, forcing the bridegroom to bend over to the bottom of the bed to remove the shoes and then pull them on. This shoe is called "changing shoes", and it also takes the meaning of husband and wife.

　 Bride shoes

In the civil society, there is another saying that wearing bride shoes to worship the heaven and earth will bring auspicious benefits to the husband's family, and then gradually evolve into an activity in making new houses. For example, in Anhui, Huizhou and other areas, girls marry and their wives make shoes for brides. Before the bride did not worship the heaven and earth, she always tried to get the bride's shoes, forcing the bridegroom to change their shoes with happy cigarettes and wedding sweets, so that everyone could laugh. There are many ways, such as Qian County folk, "take off" shoes people hesitate to climb over mountains and mountains, rather than staying up all night in the bride's way to the husband's family, so as to seize the opportunity to rob shoes.

Xiuning County folk, in the bride's bridal sedan into the mother's house, take the bridegroom to the bride from the back of the chair, the house owner deliberately crowded before squeezing, the bride is not ready to take off the shoes. Because the bride's feet were taboo, the bridegroom had always carried her on her back.

　　 Huai Huai shoes

In the Haizhou area of Jiangsu, there are also wedding customs to solve the problem. When the couple went into the bridal chamber and the delivery room was withdrawn, the groom released a button for the bride, commonly known as "Huai Huai" (also known as "happy"). It is commonly known as women who begin to have children. After the solution, the bridegroom sits on the edge of the bed, and the bride takes off shoes and socks for the bridegroom. It is commonly known as "take off boots" to show respect for her husband and to take care of her husband's life for life.

The bride wears tiger shoes. What is more interesting is the custom of wearing tiger shoes in Chongming Island. On the island, when