Straw Sandals Will Be Lost As A Souvenir.

After several searches, he finally found an old man still playing straw sandals in Lao Zhai village, Chiyuan Town, Xuanen.

The old man, Xiao Jieyu, is 80 years old.

He said that the reason why he still plays straw sandals is because his home is closer to the ancient streets of Qingyang. When it comes to the market, several pairs of straw sandals are put on the street for sale. Some tourists who come here will buy one or two pairs as souvenirs.

In addition, villagers have rarely bought them.

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In the home of the elderly, we have seen decades of "straw sandal horse horse". We saw the process of playing straw sandals, and used the lens to record the whole process of the elderly sandals.

The technique of straw sandals on the brink of being lost

Straw sandals are the traditional labor shoes used by mountain residents in China since ancient times. Their woven materials are various, including straw, wheat straw, jute, and even nylon bags filled with fertilizer.

Straw sandals have a history of thousands of years in our country. They used to wear widely, and they used to be familiar with each other.

Men and women, young and old, who work in the fields, gather firewood, cut logs, gather herbs, hunt, and so on, and wear straw sandals without rain or shine.

Straw shoes are both water and breathable, light, soft, skid proof, and very cheap, and massage health care.

On the verge of extinction

skill

Especially in summer, long walks, wear grass shoes, cool and cool, soft and hard, moderate, quick walking, two feet of raw wind, give people a sense of comfort; rainy day wear it, it is permeable and slippery; winter wear a pair of brown socks, coat full of ear sandals, both warm and anti-skid, if ice skates on the road, and then put on iron foot code, can be guaranteed nothing.

Straw sandals have become a prominent feature of the masses in the mountainous area.

In the 70s and 80s of last century, straw sandals were also a necessity for farmers in various parts of Enshi, and straw sandals were one of the basic living skills of local farmers.

Turn the harvested rice straw into the sun, remove the straw leaves with iron rake, and hammer the straw into soft straw after repeated hammering. Then the nylon pocket for fertilizer will be removed as a material for straw sandals.

After the material is ready, the shoemaking has a wooden bow shaped "saddle" in the waist. One end of the rope is tied on the saddle, and the other end is made on a special tool called "grass shoes and horse horse", which basically determines the size and style of straw sandals.

After the formation of the straw shoe skeleton, the shoemaking man rubbed the straw rope, weaving the grass rope like a woven fabric on the initial "skeleton", and finally rubbing the shoe sole with special tools and wearing the shoelace made of straw rope.

The grass shoes made by farmers themselves are cheap and durable.

With the development of the times and the improvement of living standards, straw sandals have been fading out of people's lives nowadays. They are rarely worn by people living in the mountains. Instead, they are rubber shoes, mountaineering shoes and travel shoes.

Only those nostalgic old people occasionally wear one or two pairs of pairs, or sell them at a price of 10 yuan and a pair as tourist souvenirs.

The skill of straw sandals has also been on the verge of extinction. The fate of being eliminated is probably the trend of the times.