[Commentary] My favorite shoes are the bottoms of my mother. In Zhijiang City, Hubei Province, there is a cloth shoes cultural village. This is not only a base for the inheritance and protection of cloth shoes skills, but also the development of the related industries of the culture village with this "non-legacy" handmade products. On June 19, the reporter visited Zhijiang Bubu Shengbu Cultural Village.
[Explanation] Cloth shoes have a long history in Zhijiang, and have formed a unique folk handmade cloth shoes skills. Zhijiang folk handmade cloth shoes use natural grass to prepare "ingot mat" as the sole skeleton, the lock edge and the bottom are shaped, and the cotton yarn is made of cotton yarn. In 2009, "Zhijiang Folk Handmade Cloth Shoes" was selected as the provincial intangible cultural heritage list in Hubei Province.
【Explanation】 In the cloth shoes craft workshop of the cloth shoes culture village, the craftsmen are quietly making cloth shoes, shells, cotton threads, bottom cuts, bag bottoms, padding cloth, gall bottom cotton, sodium soles, and 绱Sole, last shoes... 18 processes, need to use more than 200 meters of cotton thread, 15 square feet of cotton cloth, about 5000 stitches.
[Same period] Zhijiang Li, a representative inheritor of Zhijiang Folk Handmade Cloth Shoes: The shoe is made as a drawing, and then the base is cut, and then the cloth is filled, then the cloth is filled, then cut, and then the seam ( Sample), accept (bottom), lock (edge), the last level is 绱 (shoes). A pair of shoes usually takes two or three days, but it also requires quick hands and feet.
【Explanation】In recent years, Zhijiang has attached importance to the hand-made cloth shoes inheritance. The step-by-step cloth shoes cultural village has become a local scene, and the "step-by-step cloth shoes" has become a cultural brand. In Zhijiang and surrounding areas, rural aunts, farmers, wear needles at home to receive shoe soles, receive shoes at home, receive wages in factories, and become "leisure office workers."
[Commentary] According to reports, the "casual work" model is to provide skill training to poor villagers and women left behind through the professional cooperatives of cloth shoes, and distribute the raw materials to them for home production. When farmers are free, they can pay for their shoes to generate income. The finished products pass the factory inspection and are paid according to their wages.
[Same period] Li Houchun, a representative representative of Zhijiang folk handmade cloth shoes and chairman of Zhijiang Bubusheng Cloth Art Co., Ltd.: After the establishment of cloth shoes cultural village, it mainly absorbs poor households in the surroundings, laid-off workers in cities and towns, and then the old at home Moms, when they are at home relaxing, cooking, caring for their grandchildren, and doing housework, they receive shoes and go to work casually.
[Same period] Li Shanfen, a villager in Xiannv Village, Xiannv Town, Zhijiang City, Hubei Province: Sometimes it’s done at home, and only one can be received a day. If there is such a (cloth shoes) factory, the workers must inevitably make the shoes and get them ready For sale, villagers in the surrounding area usually go to get shoes, and older people can do it.
[Explanation] Step-by-step cloth shoes cultural village has also established a cloth shoes collection hall, and opened a catering accommodation area, specifically for the tourism and research teams to provide services, and also launched non-herited research practice courses and experience classes.
[Same period] Li Houchun, representative representative of Zhijiang folk handmade cloth shoes and chairman of Zhijiang Bubusheng Fabric Co., Ltd.: cloth shoes is a culture, since it is a culture, we will pass it on ) It has been collected for more than ten years, so we have to let the next generation know more about the history and culture of cloth shoes, let them see and pass on this culture from generation to generation.
【Explanation】 At present, Zhijiang is planning to build a national women's handicrafts industrial cluster. By using hand-made shoes as a link, it is planned to integrate women's hand-knitting industry and create a women's hand-knitting industrial cluster.
Reporter Dong Xiaobin Correspondent Yao Honghu reports from Beizhijiang
Editor in charge: [Li Ji]