[Explanation] In Shunping County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, there is a farmer entrepreneur who inherited handmade shoe-making skills for more than a hundred years and is the "fourth batch of intangible cultural heritage inheritors of court cloth shoe-making skills"; He used culture to revitalize the industry to enrich the people and became a local leader in getting rich; he self-raised funds to build a cloth shoe culture museum to inherit and promote handmade cloth shoe skills.

With the changes in people's needs, the types and styles of cloth shoes have also been adjusted.

　　[Concurrent] Liu Wudai

　　This kind of shoes are made by my grandfather, why are they so fat, because (at the time) they wore cotton socks.

This type of shoe is made by my father and my grandfather (style). This (shoe type) has lost weight and still maintains a black fabric.

This is what I made here (cloth shoes), and made the fabric according to the current fashion (element).

　　[Explanation] It is understood that to make a pair of traditional handmade cloth shoes, there are more than a dozen processes such as cutting samples, making mullet bottoms, wrapping edges and hammering bottoms.

For a skilled worker, it takes a day to get a pair of shoe soles.

　　[Concurrent] Liu Wudai

　　Some people have persuaded me to use machines instead of handwork, but the handwork is more comfortable, and the craftsmanship left by the older generation cannot be lost here.

　　[Explanation] Due to the love of "shoe culture", Liu Wudai's Cloth Shoes Cultural Museum also collected more than 1,200 pairs of shoes from different periods and nationalities, such as flag shoes, clogs, hemp sandals, embroidered shoes, as well as old spinning wheels and looms. , Shoe lasts and other various shoe-making tools.

　　[Concurrent] Liu Wudai

　　Hand-made cloth shoes is not only a craft, but also a kind of culture. In order to let more people understand traditional cloth shoes, I built this handmade cloth shoes museum in 2016.

We have set up 10 handmade cloth shoe processing contact points and 66 professional teams in the county, providing 180 jobs for local folk artists, and driving 866 rural households in 36 villages to increase annual income of 6.87 million yuan.

　　[Explanation] In order to better pass on, Liu Wudai devoted his energy to the innovation of traditional old cloth shoes.

Today, Liu Wudai has launched more than 20 kinds of products in various styles and fancy styles, with an annual output of more than 200,000 pairs, which are sold well in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and go abroad.

　　[Concurrent] Liu Wudai

　　Our cloth shoes have been exported to South Korea and Russia since 2018. The main exports are traditional tiger-head cloth shoes. They like the traditional elements of Chinese culture.

　　Xing Lu, Li Xiaowei, Lu Zihao reporting from Baoding, Hebei

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]