Grassland minorities' shoe forms also follow functionality. Daurs wear black cloth shoes. The toe puff is usually 3 cm longer than the sole. Unique in style, the shoe is practical too-wear-ing them, one can run swiftly through the fields. The Yis wear hooked cloth shoes, suitable in the fields and places where wild grasses grow. The colorful lines embroidered on the dark upper is simple, the pattern is strong with motion, looking like a flower from afar and a bird from a closer angle. These shoes express Yi women's character of loving life and desire to make progress.
