Usually, shoes ornaments are located at the bottom of human body where people seldom notice them. They keep watch for their master, linking human beings with the earth while warming the master. Although they the last part to be seen, the ethnic groups in China do not give up their feeling on shoes. How about the story of shoes?
    It is a surprising part for us to understand the mark and history represented by the shoes.
     In various shoes ornaments of the ethnic groups in China, cloth shoes with splendid decoration have many uses and the richest cultural information. With style, design of embroidery and practical use blending into one, cloth shoes are one of the handcrafts and commodities of the ethnic groups. More than 20 ethnic groups in China, including the Primi, Bouye, Miao, Tujia, She, Maonan and Yi, often wear embroidered shoes.
     These embroidered shoes contain the ethnic groups’ aesthetic conception, regional habits and customs and rich social information.