Magnificent Hand Embroidered Phoenix Queen Princess Manchu Shoes
Embroidery is a brilliant pearl in Chinese art and culture. From the magnificent Dragon Robe worn by emperors to the popular embroidery seen in today's fashions, embroidery adds so much beauty and pleasure to our life and culture. The oldest embroidered work in China on record dates from the Shang Dynasty and it has a long history of thousands of years.
The craft of embroidery is very popular between 14th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It is extensively applied for religion and household-use articles such as Buddhist statues, tobacco bags, wallets, pillow cases and table cloth and dress. The patterns of embroidery cover a larger range, from sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, and phoenix to tiger, flower and grass, clouds and geometric figures. Auspicious words are also fashionable and these patterns are widely used in the embroidered works.
Chinese embroidery has four main traditional styles: Suzhou embroidery (Su Xiu), Hunan embroidery (Xiang Xiu), Guangdong embroidery (Yue Xiu) and Sichuan embroidery (Shu Xiu). All of them are nominated as Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The magnificent shoes are designed for queen and princess of Chinese Qing dynasty. In the Qing dynasty, these shoes worn by queen and princess are specially custom-made with high-quality fabric and exquisite embroidery. Made of fine yellow brocade, hand embroidered with beautiful phoenix holding blooming peony, the shoes has a high decorative and artistic value. In Chinese culture, phoenix is the queen of birds, and peony is the queen of flowers, so both of them are the symbols of great wealth and high rank, and only the queen and princess are entitled to be in the shoes with phoenix and peony patterns. The imitated high-heels are made on the shoes, showing the elegance and magnificence of noble women. You will also see that gold thread is woven into lucky icons, meaning the eternal life. Two blue tassels are decorated on the top of the shoes, fully show
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