Ice City People Continue To Write Shoes Legend

Reporters learned from the Harbin Municipal Bureau of culture, Harbin's first batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage list will be announced by Harbin municipal government recently.

The first batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage list includes 8 parts: "carving skills of corner carving", "handcraft of shoes", "handicraft of straw handicrafts", "traditional cooking skills of old kitchen houses", "Kunlun sent Wugong" and so on.

This newspaper set up a column today to introduce the history of some intangible cultural heritage and the story behind it.

As the unique folk goods of northeast people, the processing technology of shoes has disappeared for nearly half a century.

Wang Liguang, Li Shoufa and other 6 members of the public inherit the handicraft production of the shoes, still deduce the legend of the shoes.

According to the documents of the Qing Dynasty, the name of "cow ox skin" is called "Fula".

This wax is a pair of shoes.

In the book of Heilongjiang, it is recorded that the native people perform their shoes, and they are the same as their boots, but the bottom is soft and even helped, or the cowhide or the deer skin is very dense.

Reporters saw a pair of shoes that had disappeared for nearly half a century in a small workshop in Xiangfang district.

These shoes are no longer the shoes that people wear on their feet. They become a souvenir.

In the small hand workshop of the production of shoes, 6 people like Wang Liguang, Li Shoufa and others are sitting around a wooden table, making shoes by stitches.

Some of the finished products and some semi finished shoes were placed on the table.

These shoes are of different sizes, with adults and baby feet.

Wang Liguang, 51, is the head of the workshop.

In 2003, Wang Liguang wanted to build a folk folklore Pavilion because of his unique feelings towards the black soil culture. When they collected these folk articles, they found that the shoes were a special item owned by many nationalities.

The Hezhen nationality is made of fish skin. The Manchurian people are made of cowhide, and the Han nationality is made of cowhide and horse skin.

In the process of looking for shoes, Wang Liguang found that the production process of the shoes was lost.

He searched for a year in the black land of Northeast China, and did not find a craftsman who could make shoes.

For the continuation of this culture, Wang Liguang decided to inherit the craft of protecting shoes.

In 2007, Wang Liguang and others finally found Xie Qinghai, a folk artist who made shoes in Jilin province.

The old man was more than 80 years old and had a hemiplegia.

The old man has been unable to make shoes himself.

The old man spoke with ambiguous words about the steps of making shoes. Li Shoufa recorded every detail with his notes.

After returning, they made the first pair of shoes according to the old man's statement, but failed.

They arrived in Jilin again and asked for their own works.

Under the guidance of the old men, they processed two times, and finally finished the first pair of shoes.

In July, the long lost shoes finally came back to life.

Wang Liguang said that the Chinese ancient folk shoes were created by the Manchu ancestors.

Kanto area is very cold, so the shoe is one of the main cold protection equipment here.

In the 50s of last century, shoes were fading out of people's lives.

Moreover, the manufacturing process of the shoes has disappeared.

Once used as a necessity, shoes have become a kind of history and culture.

At present, while protecting and inheriting this cultural heritage, they also want to make it a part of the city's history and culture.