"Jing Xiu Jiang" Embroidered Shoes Declare Beijing Non Heritage

In the Beijing science fair, which brings together the world's leading technology, the charming exhibition girl is showing the world's first super mobile personal computer. In the cultural and creative exhibition hall opened by the current science and technology fair, a plain old woman is lowering her head to lead the needle.

She is the person. Jing Xiu Chiang Jiang Lijuan, the embroidered shoes she has made, has declared the intangible cultural heritage of Beijing.

Jiang Lijuan wore a thin black and white Chinese jacket to distinguish it from all the colorful shoes around her. Toddlers Tiger head shoes The shoe hangers, which symbolize the auspiciousness, and her "three inch Golden Lotus" shoes, which represent her unique skills, attract many high-tech players to stop and enjoy.

"A pair of feet and a single tear" summarizes some people's evaluation of the history of Chinese women's foot binding. But Jiang Lijuan disagrees. "If we only regard" three inch Golden Lotus "as the torture and oppression of Chinese women, we will be amused. It has also been seen as a means to show beauty, just like girls now have to cut their eyelids and get plastic surgery for beauty. After one thousand years of historical precipitation, it represents the culture of an era.

Jiang Lijuan's hand embroidered "three inch Golden Lotus" is very good both at home and abroad. market These shoes are small in size and slightly bent in the soles, also known as "bow shoes". Her other famous craftsmanship, tiger head shoes, was also collected by Papa National Art Museum in New Zealand. In Chinese traditional culture, children wearing tiger shoes can avoid evil spirits, so they have been favored by small wives.

Jiang Lijuan said, shoes can be done well, from five points of view, how about the shoe sole, the thickness of the sole, whether the size is right, whether the vamp is fine or not, and whether the shoe is comfortable or not.

Chinese traditional cultural elements are embodied in the shoes produced by Jiang Lijuan. The reunion pattern represents the pursuit of perfection. The purple on shoes symbolizes "purple clouds coming to the East", and cotton in shoes represents "step by step."

Jiang Lijuan is quite special in her colleagues. She is the first batch of craftsmen who registered himself in Beijing, and she has a good English.

Jiang Lijuan, who comes from hand-made shoes, has worked in a high-end office building in China World Trade Center, Beijing. Later, in order to better engage in handmade shoes, Chiang resigned high paid work and visited more than 10 countries in China and all over the world.

"Politics is the image, the economy is the lifeblood, and culture is the backbone." Jiang Lijuan said that what she most wanted to promote was the Chinese shoe culture.