Cixi's shoes, even more than 500 pearls, are embellished. How expensive is the most expensive?

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  1. Regardless of the past or present, Cixi is a fashionista. The mother was expensive. With her son, she reached the front desk of politics. With the power in her hands, she brought her own understanding of fashion to the extreme.
    Royal jewelry mad-Cixi
    As a woman, Cixi also has the tenderness of the mirror cultivation. Before daily, she must carefully look at herself in front of the ivory carving mirror, put on gold Silk dresses, put on the boots, wear neatly and then go to the dynasty.
    The Cixi is both a wizard who can work well and a wizard who is a wizard who is in trouble. Her food and dressing is extremely extravagant and accepted the world's jewelry, known as "royal jewelry madness".
    Cixi is very luxurious, but she is also very savvy. She has collected countless luxury goods throughout her life. According to the "Clear Banknotes" records: Cixi's jewelry has more than 3,000 boxes, placed in the warehouse, divided into upper, middle, three three three The layer, and each box has a number, and each box has a jewelry list.
    In the record of Princess De Ling's "Second Years of the Qing Dynasty": Cixi can clearly remember which jewelry is placed on which layer and which box. So even if there were countless treasures, the eunuch around her did not dare to steal her in private. And these belongings mainly come from the tribute of the ministers.
    Shopping crazy-Cixi
    The is a shopping mad now. She likes all kinds of luxury jewelry, beautiful clothing, and high heels filled with pearls.
    On the 60th birthday of Cixi, it spent 12,000 gold and 380,000 silver for the birthday jewelry for himself. The decoration cost 2.4 million silver, and Cixi's sixty birthday spent about 10 million, which is equivalent to the entire Beiyang fleet's funding.
    In the memories of Xiaode Zhang, the last chief eunuch of the Qing Dynasty, Cixi's living expenses one day are roughly 40,000 silver. According to the current price, one or two silver is about 170 yuan, and the living expenses of one day are 680,000. Can't reach this standard.
    The luxury from Cixi can see from her shoes
    It in Kunming Lake, Summer Palace, Cixi has a factory specifically for her fashion items for her. factory.
    The young Manchu women who go to work here. They work very easily. They are responsible for making shoes for Cixi. No other things are needed. Everyone has eunuchs. The royal dining room will also provide them with meal.
    Cixi has very high requirements for fashion. She likes to decorate countless jewelry, pearls, agate, rubies, sapphires, diamonds, and these supreme treasures can become the embellishment of Cixi shoes.
    The 28 years of Guangxu, the Empress Dowager Cixi 70 birthdays, Cixi ordered not to receive any gifts, but then the then Minister of the Beiyang Minister Yuan Shikai still voted for it and gave Cixi a pair of shoes. This pair of shoes is full of pearls, rich and rich, and Cixi likes these shoes very much.
    In the records of "Stolen Note", this pair of shoes spent 700,000 from purchasing to delivery to the palace. These shoes were presented to Cixi by Li Lianying. Less benefits.
    It's shoes, in addition to the ministers, the most important part of her own factory production, there are special designers in the factory. After the designer designs the pattern, there will be the best embroidery girl with embroidery, which is made of embroidery according to the pattern. In order to achieve the best embroidery effect, the embroidery mother needs to carefully cut out the outline of the pattern and move it to the upper. Solid with silk threads.
    In the process of embroidery, in order to make the pattern on the upper have the same effect as the real flower, the embroidered mother also places a pot of real flowers during the embroidery process. To observe the color of the color of the flower, each needle must be compared with the color of the real flower to ensure that the silk thread she uses, the change of the color depth is exactly the same as that of the real flower.
    The most of Cixi's shoes is not the upper, but the heel. The flower pots in the Qing Dynasty have a large base, which also gives the heels more room to play. rn慈禧的高跟鞋一般在7~12厘米之间,鞋跟的底部是由许多层布纳在一起的千层底,这样走在路上的时候,既柔软又能起到减震降噪Effect. Although the Empress Dowager Cixi usually did not walk by herself, every pair of heels must meet the standards of this thousand -layer bottom.
    Cixi's heel is filled with various pearl skewers of various sizes. These pearls must be skewed in advance, and then a series of inlaids on the heels. There will be more than 500 pearls of about 500 pearls.
    In a pair of shoes from design to the factory, it takes at least a month. After they are sent to Cixi, they may often have a life span. Even Cixi's favorite shoes will not wear it for more than three days.
    and these shoes will eventually go to a place called "shoe library". All the shoes of Cixi are here, edited the number, and put them in the shoe rack with their design drawings.
    In the industrial park in Kunming Lake, the workers here are doing the same work in their lives. Even if they are at the age of marriage, they are unwilling to leave. After years of study and training, they can officially work. After many years, their assistants will fill their vacancies. They are old and cannot work. The assistant will be selected by the assistant. The inheritance of the first generation.
    In a craft worker to designing shoes, it takes at least three years of training. Among the huge and tedious industrial groups of the Summer Palace, everything depends on the interest of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Although the craftsman's treatment here is really good, they can never have their own will, just like a prisoner!

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