Recently, Zhenyong Autonomous County Yelangzhuwang research will collect and collate Yelang royalties descendants of the collection of artifacts, occasionally found in a family of Yang surname, with a pair of cowhide for the end of the "boat-shaped shoes." It is understood that wearing "boat-shaped shoes" became the royal family members married daughter fashion. This pair of shoes about 23 cm, about 6 cm high, is a pair of shoes. Its special is that pure hand-made, toe up tilt, the shape is like a boat. The soles of a boat-shaped shoe are made of three layers of thick and hard cowhide, which together form a thick thumb-nails, while the "shoe-beam" of the ankle and connecting toe is also made of cowhide. Is a layer after layer of cloth, and then fixed by twine needle and a heel at a softer cowhide, to prevent the wear of the heel when walking. Even more amazing is that at the bottom of the shoe, each shoe has 15 prominent semi-circular rivets about 1 cm in diameter. According to reports, the soles of the rivet has two functions, one is the sole of the three layers of thick and hard leather fixed together, the second is non-slip walking. According to Zhenyin Yelang Bamboo Culture Research Association, Mr. Yang Wenjin introduction, this pair of boat-shaped shoes has been a hundred years of history, is "Mongolia" this Miao women necessary for marriage. "Mongolian" Miao compatriots said that their ancestors have been circulating such a statement: that year, Yelang Wang same daughter married, wearing a pair of beautiful Alice pointed boat shoes, to other members of the royal family left a deep impression. Since then, where the royal family members have their daughters married, they have to make a pair of boat-shaped shoes to her daughter. Over time, it has become a custom. It is understood that, in the "Mengzheng" Miao ethnic group, the custom of marrying and wearing a boat-shaped shoe was maintained by the women until the beginning of the reform and opening up.