New Vitality Of Pingyao County'S "Old Craft"

There is a processing room, a cultural exhibition room and a showroom in the small courtyard of the treasure dragon residence.

Guo Maorong, a sixty year old man, wore a blue coat and Waist Apron. He sat on the table and put the shoe sole on the table.

This pair of 42 yards of leather shoes is not simple. Hou Tianlong, the manager in charge, proudly said that Luo Zhirui, a Dutch man who had more than 10 years' friendship, gave him a hand-made picture book of shoes in Italy. The pair of shoes made by Guo Maorong's master were the first pair of "Italian handcrafts" produced here.

In 1997, Hou Tianlong sold his own cloth shoes to the streets of Ming and Qing Dynasties and was quickly sold out. Hou Tianlong realized that the handicraft handed down by his ancestral family had a way of life. He decided to re polish the brand of Bao Long Zhai. He and his wife had never given up their skills, and organized the joining of Guo Maorong and other old craftsmen.

The shoemaking instructor not only keeps the old skills, but also selects new materials according to the aesthetic standards of modern people.

The cultural exhibition room has collected Hou Tianlong's collection of painstaking efforts for many years: shoe last and old cowhide in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, sewing machines in the Republic of China and all kinds of small embroidered shoes.

Hou Tianlong picked up a pair of old cloth shoes, told reporters: "this shoe is called two nose shoes, when the merchants were wearing two nose shoes to walk the Quartet."

Hou Tianlong recently plans to erect a big shoe rack, separate his collection of shoes, and allow a museum of "Bao Long Zhai cloth shoes" after the conditions permit.

Absorbing the essence of Chinese and western shoe making, the business of Baolong Zhai is getting more and more prosperous.

Linen, silk, noodles, thousand layers of floor, and old shoe making techniques continue to innovate in Baolong Zhai.

Hou Tianlong's biggest wish is to make every customer feel comfortable in his shoes.