Reed shoes are very popular in Northeast China. People collect reed flowers, then rub them repeatedly in bags to remove reed seeds, and finally get pure reed flowers, which look like cotton without seeds, but the color is slightly yellow. After obtaining pure reed flowers, the reed flowers are ground into thin lines by hand pendulum and repeatedly rubbed together to obtain a reed flower rope with a thickness of about 0.5 cm. Finally, the reed rope is woven into reed shoes, similar to the weaving of straw sandals in the south.
Reed shoes are very popular in Northeast China. People collect reed flowers, then rub them repeatedly in bags to remove reed seeds, and finally get pure reed flowers, which look like cotton without seeds, but the color is slightly yellow. After obtaining pure reed flowers, the reed flowers are ground into thin lines by hand pendulum and repeatedly rubbed together to obtain a reed flower rope with a thickness of about 0.5 cm. Finally, the reed rope is woven into reed shoes, similar to the weaving of straw sandals in the south.
The story of Lu Hua Boots
The reason why Lu Hua boots are so warm is that they use local warm materials in Haimen: straw and Lu Hua. It is said that there was once a beggar who went to a rich man's house on New Year's Eve to "get rich". The rich man said, well, all you have to do is stand barefoot in this yard for one night, and I will give you half of the property on the first day of the new year tomorrow.
It was snowing heavily and the north wind roared. The beggar in rags turned blue with cold. The vicious rich man predicted that if he stood barefoot in the snow for one night, he would freeze to death, but there were some scattered straws where the beggar stood. He stood on these straws and didn't die suddenly overnight.
Although the legend is almost impossible, it is an indisputable fact that straw warms people. In the past, farmers in Haimen had to lay a thick layer of straw on their beds for the winter, which could cover several mattresses. Reed boots are made of straw and pushed together with sandals, not one layer, but two layers, commonly known as "sandwiched bottom", and sandals are one layer of bottom, called "single bottom". The soles of a pair of well-made reed boots are as hard as wood, and snow water is difficult to penetrate.