Tiger-head Shoes

Item name and level

According to a reply of 28 November 2023 from the Lishui District Culture and Tourism Bureau, eight projects were reported as entering the municipal-level representative ICH list in January 2023, among them Tiger-head Shoes, Hand-torn Chicken, Mingjue Pickled Greens, Helinfang Twin Dragons, Shrimp Lantern Dance and Shiqiu Fishing Songs. Tiger-head Shoes is one of the eight.

The reply lists project names only; it gives no project number, no category code and no serial number for the gazette batch. It is a working statement of the bureau, and the formal list is subject to the municipal gazette. This entry therefore records the level as municipal and the item type as traditional fine art, and leaves the batch number and the guardian unit pending verification.

To be added

The sources available to this library record only the project name and the outcome of the application. Still to be added: the shape and dimensions of the shoe pattern, the working steps such as pasting cloth stiffening and embroidering the tiger face, the cloth and embroidery thread used, the patterns and colours, the area of transmission, the bearers, the project number and gazette batch number in the municipal list, and the guardian unit. Until further sources are found, this entry records no detail of the craft or its history.