There is an old saying in northern China, shoe can t be brought in the lunar New Year due to shoe has the same pronunciation with word of "evil" in Chinese. Nowadays people don t take the saying soseriously, so shoe business in Tianjin city is not as bad as before during the festival.
Shoe sales in the department stores of Friendship, Parson, New World, Fareast and Quanyechang were seen prosperous from the first day of lunar New Year to sixth. The conversation between a shoe saleswoman in Parson Department Store and a shopper who just brought a pair of shoe has proved people don t care the old saying any more, the shopper said to the salewoman such saying had been out of date, it has become a joke for current younger people nowadays. CITATION http://www.chinaleather.org/eng/show.php?itemid=5865
Shoe sales in the department stores of Friendship, Parson, New World, Fareast and Quanyechang were seen prosperous from the first day of lunar New Year to sixth. The conversation between a shoe saleswoman in Parson Department Store and a shopper who just brought a pair of shoe has proved people don t care the old saying any more, the shopper said to the salewoman such saying had been out of date, it has become a joke for current younger people nowadays. CITATION http://www.chinaleather.org/eng/show.php?itemid=5865
