Traditional culture handmade cloth shoes, looking for partners
since ancient times, China has admired "pigs" very much, showing traces of "pig culture" everywhere. Since ancient times, pigs have implied good luck and wealth (blessing). Therefore, adults make a pair of traditional pig-head shoes for children, suiting people's good wishes that children can eat, sleep and thrive, and the rich (blessing) are constantly popular among people, commonly known as children's "easy to keep"!
Handmade cloth shoes look like pigs, and the whole body is sewn with black rough flannel. The front part has pig's ear and vivid pig nose, while the back part has pigtail, like a lovely pig. This shoe is popular in the Luanhe River Basin of Yanshan Mountains and originated in Yin Shang culture. It is a reflection of the original worship of Chinese folk and is suitable for children around the age of one.
The shoe is a thousand-layer cloth bottom, flat trapezoidal head, the upper is sewn with black, red and blue flannel, and the front of the footwear uppers is shaped like a pig head, with blue, green, yellow, black, orange and pink wool embroidered facial features, pig head edge and shoe mouth are rolled with orange and brown velvet respectively, lined with flannel on both sides. The shape and color matching of shoes are unique, meaning that children grow up healthily and healthily like pig babies! Pig also has "foot", which is the elegant title of foot. Gutso is also the meaning of wealth. Therefore, wearing pig shoes also represents rich "foot" and expensive "foot", expressing people's good wishes to children! A pair of hand-made "Pig shoes" which are very beautiful and have various good meanings not only express the working people's yearning for a better life, but also reflects the smart wisdom and artistic beauty of the working people!