Tibetan Shoes: The Appearance Of Tibetan Culture (Photo)

The appearance of Tibetan culture? Tibetan shoes, Tibet plateau, vast areas, each region has its own shoes.

The shoes of Tibetan men and women are very similar to the boots worn on stage costumes, but they are made of cowhide, bottom 2 inches high, waist to high above the legs, and the vamp decorated with red and green hair. The waist has lines and patterns, and the upper is made of colored silk or colored leather, silk and gold satin.

People can judge a person's occupation and social class from the shoes he wears.

At the nine o'clock in the morning, at nine o'clock in the morning, Chi Li Qing went out of the house and arrived at the boot workshop of Beijiao Jia Cun Qu Mei on time.

Sitting on the workbench, the red Terra Tsing Tsing was tall and dressed in a light colored concealed suit, with several snuff stained on the front pendulum, and some fingers deformed with long needles.

Turning his resume, he found that he was a rare family of boots in Lhasa. His father Benbatonju was a poor shoe maker in the old society. He lived by repairing shoes and shoes for wealthy people.

This year, 68 year old Chi Li Tai Qing's character is steady and steady. He worked as an apprentice when he was 12 years old. He made shoes for 56 years. If he added the history of his parents' shoes repair, it would take longer.

In today's Lhasa, there are few people who have experienced this kind of experience.

From now on, Chai Tai Qing began to master his father's and master's skills, and gradually grasped the skill that was enough to support his family. At last he grew up to be a diligent and versatile craftsman, and began to work steadily in a corner.

When the Chicago tower came into adulthood, the democratic reform was carried out in Tibet. In the North District of Lhasa, Xia SA Su and Chong Sai Kang set up a "shoe industry mutual aid society". The eight shoemaker masters each paid 50 yuan for their shares, and Chi Li Tat Qing and his son became the first members of the mutual aid society.

"Later things became very complicated!"

Chi Li Tai Qing said.

From the changes of the name and office location, we can see that it is not an easy task to engage in the national handicraft industry.

After the Tibet rebellion, the shoe industry mutual aid society was renamed the Shengli cooperative. Later, it was also called the advance shoe and hat cooperative. Later it was called the Chengguan shoe factory. Now its name is Cai Quan national handicraft company.

The original site was near Lao Chong Kang, and later moved to the back of the Mu Lu Temple. Now, the name of the village of Jia village, which is stationed in the north of the city, has changed its name, and the address has changed.

Chi Li Tai Qing believes that as long as people are there, enterprises will have hope.

In the early days of the establishment of the mutual aid society, Mr Chai Chi Li had an unforgettable "battle years".

However, after the impetuous impulse, they found that due to the ample supply of daily necessities and the change of people's concept, the gaze only focused on the hidden boots. There was not much prospect for development, and the income was also very unstable. So they gradually increased the storage of paper, perfume, and weaving. The production of enterprises had gone through the initial difficulties and gradually moved to the right track.

"For a while, our days were really sad. At that time, people dressed in suits and casual clothes were fashionable. Our things were so good that they could not be sold in cities, only to sell them in winter.

It's much better now. There are more holidays and more activities and more people wear clothes.

Once you put on your hide and clothes, if you have a pair of shallow shoes on your feet, you are obviously out of tune.

Really, the influx of cheap light industrial products at that time had a great impact on Tibetan shoes production, and it was also a great blow to our confidence.

But after a long time, after all, there is a comparison. When I look back, many users still think that the hidden shoes are strong, the hidden shoes are beautiful, and the people who buy them are more.

Chi Li Tai Qing said.

In the most beautiful time, the Tibetan boots made by Chi Li master are popular with people in many areas. They often sell all kinds of shoes to Cuoqin and other places in Ali.

Sometimes they drive a large truck and put things and tools in the carriage to roam in Qinghai, northern Tibet, Changdu and so on. Every place, the newly completed Tibetan boots and leather goods are always sold out, and sometimes they spend more time in the local area, working overtime day and night to make urgent orders for the local people.

Chi Li Qing Qing remember that every year in August, Yushu, Qumalai and other places in Qinghai herdsmen to the Qinghai Tibet highway five beam pport station to pport wool, this time, the herdsmen brokers will take the initiative to get in touch with the shoe factory, coordinating shoes factory to two hundred or three hundred pairs of "Zhu Lang" shoes to five beams to sell to the herdsmen.

These shoes are well received by herdsmen in Qinghai, ABA and other places.

Although there are no problems with the sale of hidden shoes now, all the products made by Chi Li Tai Qing are all manual, and one of them is cumbersome and time-consuming. Secondly, the materials are fastidious and the cost is high. For example, these patterns on the toe of pine shoes, like flowers, look very beautiful and very popular with customers. But this is the manual worker sewing out by hand. It costs a lot of effort, so don't look at a pair of hidden boots that can sell more than 300 yuan. Actually, the cost is very high, and in fact, it doesn't earn much money, which is also a common problem for many manual workers.

At present, the backbone of the handicraft industry of ethnic groups such as Chi Chi tower and Qing Dynasty has made great sacrifices for the development of the industry.

Because of low profit and poor efficiency of enterprises, they are often in a dilemma of being unable to make ends meet. Sometimes, even basic wages can not be delivered, so they have shaken.

But they understand that this is not a simple pair of shoes, it is related to the survival of national culture, so in their own words, they are "swaying to the present".

Today, Cai Quan national handicraft industry has set up two stores in the factory and in Lhasa, and there are also several selling points. The factory implements piecework system, so that the enthusiasm of the workers is improved, and production and sales are basically on the right track.

He said that as long as the company's situation improved, it would be nothing to eat bitterness.

There are three shoe and hat factories in Chengguan District of Lhasa city. Later, for some reasons, some of them changed, and some of them went bankrupt. Some of them were closed down, and now only the cheicha national handicraft company is still insisting on the production of traditional Tibetan shoes. There are only seven or eight workers in the big workshop, most of whom are women, and a few disabled people. But they can not see the expression of loss from the workers' faces. They work while chatting with tea, and the optimistic and cheerful character of the Tibetan people will not put the secular pressure on their shoulders.

On the contrary, the "soul" of the workshop "Chi Li Tai Qing" is usually silent and not talkative, but if you ask him anything, he will tell you everything and tell you everything you know.

We visited the showroom in the factory.

Here we see more than 30 different kinds of traditional Tibetan shoes, including a pair of casual shoes, which are said to have 500 years of history, and a pair of rare "autumn (Ukraine) lock" shoes, with beautiful Babel designs on the vamp.

"In the eyes of unfamiliar people, the Tibetan men and women shoes look very much like the boots worn on stage costumes. They are made of cowhide, bottom 2 inches, waist high to the lower legs, and the vamp is decorated with red and green wool. The waist has lines and patterns, and the upper is made of colored silk or colored leather, silk and gold satin.

But the Tibet plateau has a vast territory. Every region has its own shoes. The shoes of farmers and herdsmen are very different. People can judge a person's occupation and social class from the shoes he wears.

Both shoes and shoes do not need shoelaces.

From a large perspective, Tibetan shoes can be divided into four types, namely, "pine and RAM", "Jolla" shoes, boots and "Jia Qing". There are also different kinds of shoes, such as single floor, multi-storey bottom, and so on.

"Pine Baram" is also known as pine shoes. According to different regions, the pine shoes can be divided into Zang song Ba, Jiangzi song Ba, Lhasa song Ba, etc., known for their beautiful and complex patterns.

The characteristics of the gal shoes are beautiful and strong. They are divided into two types: the gore area of the GB area, the waist of the cowboy, the cowhide bottom, the dog's nasal stripes on the top, and the popular shoes in Mozhu, Peng Bo and other places.

There are also three kinds of boots: the black lint cloth and the cowhide are called "hot Maru"; the linen cloth is called the "cloth River", and the shoe waist is all called leather boots.

Boots are mostly black with a typical Mongolia style.

"Jiaqing" is a high-grade product in Tibetan shoes. The Tibetan language is "Hongying". The two groups of lines on the upper waist and waist of the shoe are just like a beautiful rainbow. The base is very thick, and it is superposed with high-quality felt to keep it warm and strong.

At present, the "Jiaqing" shoes priced at more than seven hundred yuan are mostly used for senior officials in the past.

Hidden shoes can be divided into different shapes and materials.

The more advanced pine shoes are called "pine and ladder", which are made of cowhide and made of thick wool or cotton thread. The bottom is 1 centimeters thick, and the boots are colourful. They are embroidered with red silk, yellow, green, blue and other eight kinds of silk threads, and their boots are embroidered and gorgeous.

This kind of boots, because of their exquisite workmanship, used to be worn before the festival.

Tibet women like to wear the best "ladder horse" in the pine shoes, because the shoes have complex flower patterns on their shoes (commonly known as "fishbone tattoo", requiring their lines as sharp and sharp as fish bones). In the old society, women with good family backgrounds and noble backgrounds could afford them.

Now, of course, ordinary people can easily have it.

The shoe with a lower grade than "the pine and ladder" is called "not mixed". The base of this shoe is all wrapped in cow skin and is very strong.

There is also a shoe called "for the day", the so-called "for the day", is designed to use the thick line of the bottom, the mun sewing Gang, produced in Shannan area, because in many areas of Shannan, there is a kind of "Sun Ma hot hybrid" plant, Chinese called hemp and ramie, the farmers pull it down into a seam into the sole of the shoe and got the name.

The shoes of "for the day" are characterized by warmer, more durable, soaked and soaked in water, which are welcomed by farmers' friends.

In pastoral areas, herdsmen like to sew their own shoes, such as "Zhu Lang", which means they are produced from the boots of Chu Zhu in Ganzi, and the older generation calls them Holzer shoes.

There are also "Zhusi" shoes, which people like to wear in Yushu, Qinghai, because these shoes are strong enough to walk on snow.

In the workshop, we have demonstrated to us the whole process of making pine shoes and Carlo shoes.

We saw a big iron pan filled with tea leaves in the house. He explained that in the past, people used horse manure to make leather, and now the horse manure was not easy to find, instead of big leaf tea residue.

The finished leather is cut into sole and staple and felt together.

Linen and felt must be covered and obviously larger than the skin, because linen and felt are sole parts of the upper.

After all this was done, the chef first used a coarse cotton thread to stitch up the upper.

This is an experience, but also a technical activity. The shoe will not be buckled and the shoe will be squeezed.

This gradual process will form a prismatic bar made up of eight lines with different width and different colors on the upper, which is both beautiful and strong.

When the shoe is completely set up, a white cloth is glued to the sole and the sole is finished.

The most difficult part of hide boots is the number of shoe soles.

A few centimeters thick leather shoes need to be tangle one by one, each thread is pierced by a needle. It is entirely manual work. The workers are all covered with blister and scars.

In contrast, making shoes and shoes is easier and some parts can also be used.

When the sole is finished, it will not be finished with the waist and upper side of the shoe, but also with a special tool to hold up the shoe so that it will not be deformed.

A journalist who went there ordered a pair of boots, asking how long it would take to finish them, and Chi Li Tsing smoked snuff, and said slowly that there should be no problem in 20 days.

From here we can see the exquisite and exquisite handwork of making Tibetan boots.

The Kolo boots made by Qing Chi tower are made of cowhide and the boots are made of 3 layers of hides, and the black ones are about 3 centimeters below.