Gaoyou Old Woman Makes Tiger Shoes For World Expo Guests.

"This year's 88 year old money Lao Tai has been very busy recently because she is making tiger shoes for Shanghai World Expo guests."

I heard that there is a master in Gaoyou who makes tiger shoes. The reporter helped with the director of Yuan Zhen, the community office of Gaoyou Town, and finally found the old lady, Qian Yongfang.

　　她做的虎鞋很可爱

Qian Lao Tai wore a red brown red cap, and his skin was white and red, with a benevolent smile, quick thinking and slow speaking.

Knowing the reporter's intention, she brought us into her studio.

A few boxes were placed on the corner of the workroom, and she took out a box containing colorful tiger shoes.

The reporter took out a pair of blue bottom yellow tail tiger shoes to enjoy, about 5 centimeters of tiger shoes, with silk thread embroidered eyes, beard, mouth and other tiger features, shoes to the soles of the shoes are embroidered with various flower cases, the stitches are thin and dense.

This tiger has lost the hegemonic spirit of the forest king, and has been more lovely.

Qian Lao Tai said proudly, "my children and grandchildren are full of children. All children grow up wearing tiger shoes made by me."

Miss Tai falls in love with tiger shoes.

"At that time, my daughter's family would do" needlework. "

88 years ago, Qian Yongfang was born in Zhenjiang.

Talking about the first pair of tiger shoes, she still feels excited.

When she was 16 years old, her sister gave birth to a child.

According to local customs, sister and child must be born with a pair of tiger shoes.

Although she had never done it before, she was looking for a pair of shoe like shoes and imagining making.

When she first embroidered the first pair of tiger shoes appeared vividly in front of everyone, immediately won a lot of praise, which made this young lady fall in love with tiger shoes, never lost in her life.

Later, Qian Yong Fang married to the Fangjia family in Gaoyou. Her husband's family was also a large family. She made tiger shoes for children, grandchildren and grandsons, from the hinges, the shoes, the shoes and the shoes, to the design of shoe upper, upper and sole.

Tiger shoes direct sale in Shanghai

"Surprisingly, tiger shoes are now rare."

Qian said that she had never sold tiger shoes before, but used to give her relatives and friends to new people, meaning "harmony and beauty".

Because living on the 4 floor, Qian Lao usually seldom goes out, and he is happy to embroider tiger shoes at home.

Until a few years ago, Weng Jing, a granddaughter working in Shanghai, came home to see her making a lot of exquisite tiger shoes. She took a picture and marked the price of 100 yuan on the Internet.

Not long after, a foreigner offered $100 to buy a pair.

This marketing soon produced a "sensational" effect, and Qian's tiger shoes were in short supply. Everyone was overjoyed.

After that, her tiger shoes have been selling well in big Shanghai.

Traditional craft will eventually inherit.

Tiger head shoes are complex in their work. Only needles, needles, flowers and seeds are needed for tiger heads.

Money Lao Tai explained with a pair of tiger shoes, not to see shoes only five or six centimeters long, but shoes, shoes, shoe upper, press, pull, close, every process is careless.

All over the country, tiger shoes are various, beautiful and not beautiful, and the key is cultural connotation.

For example, a few months baby wear soft bottom shoes, embroidered bird fins on the soles, meaning that the baby will walk faster; after the birthday, wear hard bottom shoes, and the ten thousand characters on the sole indicate that everything is going well.

"I am getting older and bigger, and the production is decreasing. One group is doing 10 pairs, the fastest is 1 months."

Because tiger shoes are a fine job and a great demand, money handed over to her daughter Fang Mei.

"She did better than I did. Now many young people don't like to do handwork, and no one wants to learn to make tiger shoes.

She likes learning and doing well. I'm very happy. "

It is very gratifying to see that tiger shoes are successors.

Finally, Qian Lao Tai told us earnestly: "the shoes I made are not sold now, they are not sold for many, and they are left for exhibitions in World Expo, Shanghai."

It is understood that the dealer has applied to the exhibition hall in World Expo, specially showing the tiger shoes of the money Lao Tai to the guests.