Shoes under our feet

From simple bark and animal skin shoes to AIRJORDAN's magical high-tech products, shoes have been telling stories about shoes and shoes. The ancient Egyptians patterned their soles and used footsteps to convey information. Because of his short stature, King Louis XIV of France compensated with a 5-inch heel, and he had a pocket pattern on his heel that led the army to victory. Greenland’s daughter kept the baby warm in the high hem of the fur shirt boots. Lincoln put his uncomfortable shoes aside and walked around wearing slippers in the White House. His politicians were amazed. 200 years ago in Japan, the people were walking around with high wooden clogs in order to avoid placing kimono under muddy water. In 1972, a track and field coach from Leighton took a mixture of urethanes into the iron film of the baked cheesecake, and developed the signature signature soles of the first "Nike" shoes.

Careful friends can look at their old shoes, and they will find the mark under the big toe and the smooth indentation of the ankle. The badly worn soles are evidence of the shoemaker’s pace, style, and journey. Shoes tell the story. During our lifetime, each of us could walk 65,000 miles -- almost two and a half weeks around the earth. If you look closely at the shoes you wear, you will find where they are going and where they have been. Shoes are more able than any personal wealth to show each of us how we live, how we work, and how we play.

In every culture of the world, what people wear (or not wear) on their feet can reflect their environment and culture, and their social role as men, women, adults, or children. Throughout the history of manpower, shoes have always been associated with special activities. Please imagine that you don't have any shoes, not even a pair of shoes, and your only means of transportation is your feet. You run to school all the way. What happens on the way? In the cold season in Harbin, your feet must be frozen when they rush through the ice and snow. Then, when summer arrives and the temperature soars, your footsteps will have to be lifted and lifted, over the sidewalk that can scorch people from the cannon, to escape the broken glass and the rusty iron, and to try to avoid the toes from kicking. .

In fact, many people often do not take shoes as a child. Have you ever wondered who wears the first human shoe? How was this pair of shoes invented? If we start from the beginning, we must cross over 100,000 years in time and return to the estuary of the Klassian River, not far from the Indian Ocean, on the far southern coast of Africa. There are innumerable dense caves. It was reported that there used to be homosapiens apiens (this The Latin words mean the first communities of "double Homo sapiens." In order to adapt to the harsh environment, early humans invented clothing - mostly cured animal skins. In order to protect the foot soles, the easiest and quickest way they come up with is to hold anything (flat bark, large leaves, and perhaps a bunch of weeds) on hand, with rattan or tough. Long grass tied under the feet.

Early "shoes" may not be very beautiful, but they are very practical. After long-term experiments, humans invented "sandals." This is the oldest type of shoe made by hand. It is basically in two forms: one is made of palm, papyrus or wild grass and made of plant fibers to form a loop around the toes. From North America to the Kramas Indians, prehistoric rock dwellers, these shoes can be found everywhere.

The second form of sandals in the early days was to cut a piece from the treated leather, drill it along the edge, and put on a belt that could be pulled tight like a rope and pulled the shoe into place. The oldest sandals were excavated from the tomb of a mummy in the deep valleys of the Andes in Pachacamac, Peru. According to estimates, this sandal has a history of nearly a thousand years. Its production material is llama skin.

How can the same sandals be found so far apart? Some anthropologists believe that with the change of the earth's climate, primitive people who migrated in large numbers settled in every corner of the earth. They copied the way they made shoes from the people they met along the way. According to the available raw materials and the weather conditions experienced with the changes of the four seasons, the designs borrowed from Other places have been improved.

Many of the earliest sandals were made of plant materials and were soon damaged by wind and rain. So where can we find clues for sandals? Interestingly, the oldest picture of sandals is also an example of the earliest known Egyptian script. This 5,000-year-old carved slate was found in the Temple of the Eagles in Heraklepolis. On one side of the slate, the king is punishing an unlucky enemy, and on the other side the king is striding barefoot across ten headless bodies. But no matter where the king went, there was a dwarf-like servant who followed him and held the king's fancy sandals. This pair of sandals may represent the power of the King of Namo.

In the next 1500 years, the Egyptians developed their special hieroglyphics. In 1334 BC, the nine-year-old Tutankhamun became king of Egypt. In the relevant records, the pictograph of "sandals" appeared, resembling an ellipse and two laces. Nine years later, King Tutankhamun died and his body was made into a mummy. In the funerary objects, there are exquisite sandals dating back more than 3,000 years. His subjects believe that these shoes will help the king continue his journey to the afterlife. One of the pair of pointed-toe sandals is made of gold-plated gold; the other pair is made of papyrus and has leather straps at the ankles, which depicts an imaginary Nile landscape.

During the long historical period, soldiers used leather boots to protect their feet and legs. They walk through the rugged countryside in leather boots and go through the icy rivers. The earliest record of this type of shoe was seen in a mural of more than 2,700 years of history. It captures the fierce samurai of King Sagan II (721 BC-705 BC). Riding on the chariot, the scene of the Assyrian Empire was expanded. All the people on the screen are fully decorated with lace boots.

Hundreds of years later, the Spartan warriors of ancient Greece had more imaginative shoes – dazzling red boots (and matching red short-sleeved tunics) designed to cover the blood flowing from the wounds. . This red boots quickly became popular among the crazy Spartan youth. Some historians firmly believe that the history of leather boots is even longer than that of ancient Greek and Assyrian empire.

Maybe four or five hundred years ago, the first leather boots were moccasins. People wore leggings to protect the wind and protect their legs from thorns. But later, the leggings were attached to the deerskin and became high-heeled or knee boots. This kind of leather boots was found in large numbers in North Asia, where the climate is very harsh. Experts believe that many of the early boots were carried across the Bering Strait into Alaska and North America, and were modified by Inuit and Native American tribes.