CHENGDU, June 9 (Xinhua) -- In the township of Tangchang, Lai Shufang carefully inspects the new cloth shoes she has made and cuts the extra trimmings protruding from the shoe edges. Lai, 62, is a ...
The sole of a qian ceng di (shoes with a thousand layers) is made of 30 layers of cloth. [Photo/IC] Qiang Shuping was so busy making cloth shoes for clients who ordered them that she didn't even rest ...
From the ruins of the Yin and Shang Dynasties (14th–12th centuries BC), archaeologists have unearthed, on independent occasions, a pair of leather shin guards and a headless, kneeling jade human ...