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Zuo-Zuo barefoot stroll on a rainy day. This set includes 33 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

Teacher Zuo has long practiced the concept of barefoot living, viewing it as a healthy lifestyle that is close to nature and attentive to bodily sensations. During this meeting in Hangzhou, she chose to take off her shoes and guide me through the city in a barefoot state, strolling around the commercial areas near West Lake. There were many tourists that day, and the crowds were dense. Finding a suitable place to eat took considerable time, as many restaurants in the mall required queuing. Eventually, we chose a fast-food restaurant for our meal. This documentation is not intended to deliberately showcase the form itself, but rather hopes to present the practical state of barefoot living in everyday urban environments through real-life scenarios, exploring a more natural lifestyle that emphasizes bodily awareness. This set includes 11 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

In December 2024, on a winter day, Zuo-Zuo accompanied me barefoot to visit a shopping mall. This set includes 48 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

While shopping with Zuo-Zuo, she simply took off her shoes and shopped barefoot. This set includes 26 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

Zuo-Zuo accompanied me for a barefoot walk around West Lake. This set includes 20 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

In March of this year, Zuo-Zuo went barefoot shopping at Sam's Club. This set includes 30 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, Zuo-Zuo took me to experience barefoot shopping at the mall. We looked at clothes and walked around the square outside. The ground of the outdoor square was very hot, and walking barefoot on it was quite interesting. This set includes 8 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

A daily record of Zuo-Zuo's barefoot life in Chengdu: shopping, parking, going to restaurants, being at home, etc. This set includes 20 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

Zuo-Zuo's daily barefoot life record in Chengdu: shopping, cycling, stepping in water, playing in mud, visiting malls, etc. This set includes 13 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

Zuo-Zuo is a true barefooter, often going barefoot in daily life such as during travel and errands. During this Dragon Boat Festival holiday, I happened to be in Chengdu on a business trip and visited her. She treated me to skewers and invited me to go barefoot together. This set includes 8 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from.

Heaven and earth nurture spirits, mountains and rivers cultivate beauty. Though colorful garments and ornate shoes may please worldly eyes, bare feet and slender toes reveal true grace. Now there is an extraordinary woman who discards her shoes in this world, treading truth upon the dust. In spring, she treads green streams; in summer, she wades through clear waves; in autumn, she crosses frosty paths; in winter, she imprints upon cold snow. Facing wind's blades and rain's arrows, laughing at gravel's spears and thorns” halberds, she finds the joy of carefree wandering, utterly forgetting the worries of constraint. Observing her movement, it is like lotuses floating through mist, red jade emitting light. With steps light upon waves, she shatters thousands of silver scales; skimming frost, she dances gracefully, crushing myriad golden leaves. Bare toes touch moss, startling hibernating insects to shrink their necks; footprints carve sand, awing waves to hush their roar. Some may call her a wild woman, defying propriety, mocking her for contradicting custom. Yet she scoffs: ”The crowns and coronets of the mortal world only shackle innate nature; embroidered shoes and silk stockings are but cocoons for the spirit. Those who admire me admire true simplicity; those who slander me slander their own hearts!” As for the harshness of deep winter, the biting east wind pierces to the bone. The world wraps itself in cocoons like grubs, yet alone she lifts her head and strides barefoot. Ice edges slice her skin, yet she laughs, calling it ”heaven's gift of jade cream”; snow pellets sting her ankles, yet she chants it as ”earth's application of jade ointment.” The cruelties of the four seasons transform entirely into sweet rain for her; the perils of all paths become playgrounds for her amusement. Thus it is understood: when the body enslaves the heart, there is suffering; when the heart commands the body, there is joy. Those who follow the Dao, emulating nature, are never trapped by cold or heat, nor constrained by carriages or attire! Alas! The world is deluded by the tale of golden lotuses, obsessed with the deformity of foot-binding. How could they know that when Nüwa first created humans, she bestowed bare toes; that when the sage Yu controlled the floods, he once trekked barefoot. Returning to simplicity and origin draws one closer to the great Dao; binding the body and adorning the form ultimately contradicts heavenly principle. Observing this maiden's journey, one suddenly comprehends the image of the primordial beginning, the truth of chaos. Those who dare ridicule her as ”savage" truly fail to see: the prints beneath her feet are the tracks of Xihe; the ground she treads is the realm of carefree wandering!

Zuo-Zuo brewing tea barefoot in the wild. This set includes 14 minutes of video, provided for barefoot enthusiasts to reference and learn from. Promoting a healthy barefoot lifestyle, creation is not easy, thank you all for your support.