In the traditional wedding custom in China, the bride must wear red shoes, because red shoes are linked with the connotation of our entire China culture. The Chinese nation regards red as an auspicious color, and it also symbolizes China's ancestor Vulcan! For the Chinese nation, red means fire and prosperity, and it is an auspicious color. In ancient times, every bride had to make a pair of shoes by herself when she got married. Instead, we should choose red cloth to make red shoes, and embroider symbolic auspicious patterns of dragons and phoenixes, which also implies a happy, harmonious and happy family after marriage.

Wedding shoes in marriage customs

In China, marriage is regarded as the foundation of the monarch, father and son, hierarchical human relations, the key to the rise and fall of the family, and the lifelong event of unmarried men and women, which is not only interfered by the words of the court, government, parents and matchmakers, but also highly valued and widely concerned by the whole society. This is reflected in the solemnity and complexity of Chinese wedding ceremonies and the specific dress. Shoes are old wedding mascots, mainly focusing on sound. The harmony between "shoes" and "harmony" is an auspicious symbol of harmony between husband and wife. In the old marriage custom, the bride always has bronze mirrors and shoes in her dowry, which means "grow old together".

There are three main types of wedding shoes in traditional wedding customs:

One is the zodiac shoes. In ancient times, weddings were supposed to be auspicious days. When the bride gets on the sedan chair, she should wear shoes made of yellow cloth, which are called "sedan chair shoes" or "zodiac shoes", and then put on red wedding shoes when her husband comes home.

The second is to step on shoes. Some places refer to the shoes worn by women when they get married, and some places refer to the shoes worn by the bride from top to bottom. Put on new shoes after opening the face, throw the foot pads under the bed and let them rot under the bed to show that the bride will get married for the second time in her life. The other said that the baby was born early on your shoes.

The third is sleeping shoes. Sleeping shoes are shoes worn by women in the old society when they slept in their bridal chamber. Because it is a pair of thin and light soft-soled shoes, it is also called "soft-soled shoes", and the groom should take them off when he sleeps. Rich families also hide photos of men and women in their shoes, and the bride and groom take off their shoes and go to bed to see them.

The relationship between shoes and sex

There are several reasons why feet and shoes can be associated with sex and reproduction: first, from the appearance characteristics, the depression of the sole of the foot is like a vulva, and the pores formed by combining the feet can be regarded as "illegal spermatogenic tools". Therefore, shoes and feet together have a sexual meaning.

Shoes and taboos

In Shandong, brides are forbidden to wear red shoes because red symbolizes a fire pit. To get married in red shoes is to jump into a fire pit and lead a miserable life, which is unlucky. Hebei and other places will wear red shoes, symbolizing the first marriage; Remarried women are not allowed to wear red shoes, only green shoes. In some places, satin is not used as the material of happy shoes, which is directly related to the reproduction of future generations. Because "satin" is homophonic with the "joke" symbolizing childlessness, it is very unlucky.