Holland Has Unique Local Characteristics -- Wooden Shoes

If you are looking for it Netherlands If you have the local scenery, then look up at the windmill. Wooden shoes 。 Wooden shoes have been in Holland for hundreds of years, and now they have evolved from their practical functions. Technology It has become a cultural symbol representing Holland. On the 8 day of the trip to Holland, from the bustling capital Amsterdam to the coastal town of Valentine, every place, there is always a shadow of wooden shoes around them. They quietly go on the balcony of Holland's family, willingly serve as a vase full of tulips, or crowded in the noisy VV market, becoming a tourist souvenir that tourists are competing for. Of course, in some small towns, you may also see Uncle farmer who ploughed wood shoes.

The end of the rich trip, the last stop is to return to Amsterdam, before entering the city, we were dragged to the famous "tourist attraction" Zaanse Schans, the Dutch who will do the tourist business, in order to make the time available, there is no way to visit the tourists in Holland fully feel the wind of Holland, and set up the scenic spot called "Zaanse Schans" in the outskirts of Amsterdam, wooden shoes. Museum The cheese factories and the windmills on the roadside are gathered here, and the thick smell of cheese floating in the air is inevitably mixed with some commercial flavor. However, after a visit, the reporters found that although the village tourists were weaving, the prices of the goods sold by merchants were not expensive. As before, when we bought them in other markets in Holland, not all souvenir markets were "slaughtered for you".

In Zaanse Schans, the wooden shoe museum is the one that attracts the most visitors. Holland's shoes and shoes are collected here and there. You will know the importance of wood shoes to the Dutch. Holland has few land and low elevation. In the process of reclamation, raw materials which are cheap, easy to make, damp proof and can play a role in labor protection emerge as the times require. The farmers fill the shoes with straw, so that they can keep out the cold and frost, and are comfortable and wearable. Wooden shoes were handed down. In Holland, when a baby is born, parents need to prepare a pair of wooden shoes carefully for the baby, so as to show that they are always accompanied by wooden shoes. When you are in love, a young man should give his girlfriend a pair of wooden shoes and carve his girlfriend's name. When married, the husband also gives his wife a pair of more exquisite wooden shoes as a token of love. If you can receive a pair of wooden shoes presented by the Dutch, that means you are the most honorable friend in their eyes. In the Museum of wooden shoes, craftsmen will also demonstrate the processing of wooden shoes on the spot. In the absence of machinery, wooden shoes are hand made. But today, with mechanical production, three pairs of wooden shoes can be made in one minute. The craftsman took a piece of wood and polished it on the rotating machine, and introduced it in English. Sawdust was flying around under the rotation of the machine. After a while, a wooden shoe with primary colors began to take shape.

Then you can go to the back of the museum to buy Wooden shoes. From big to small, colorful, do not worry about the price - although not cheap, but in other places in Holland, you spend the same money.