Nei Liansheng Boots and Shoes Shop was founded in the third year of Emperor Xianfeng's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1853). At first, it was specialized in making court boots with thousand-layer soles for the royal family and officials at all levels. The earliest store was located in Mixiang, Dongjiang, Beijing (now Taijichang), and its founder was Zhao Ting. The "Nei" in the name of the store refers to the imperial palace, and "Liansheng" means that officials who wear the court boots made in the store can be promoted three levels in a row. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Nei Liansheng applied the skills of making official boots to the production of thousand-layer sole cloth shoes. The quality of the finished products is excellent and well-known, and it became famous in Beijing. Nei Liansheng's thousand-layer sole cloth shoes have always used traditional handmade methods, with strict craftsmanship, unique technology, exquisite material selection, and fine workmanship. Its craftsmanship characteristics can be summarized as "one high and four more". "One high" means high craftsmanship requirements, and "four more" means many production processes, many sole patterns, many shoe sewing methods, and many varieties of cloth shoes. It often takes four or five days to make a pair of thousand-layer cloth shoes, and it can only be completed after more than ninety processes. Each process has strict requirements, and it pays attention to accurate size, skilled techniques, appropriate strength, and meticulousness. Among them, there are three different techniques for shoemaking alone: positive sewing, reverse sewing, and open sewing. There are nearly forty kinds of tools used in the entire shoemaking process. In addition to the continuous improvement of production technology, Nei Liansheng also has high quality requirements for raw materials, auxiliary materials, and accessories. Nei Liansheng has created more than 1,500 varieties and styles of cloth shoes according to different seasons, ages, genders, customs, etc., and has comprehensively and effectively excavated and sorted out the traditional folk shoe culture in northern China. Its thousand-layer cloth shoes mainly include four series of products: men's shoes, women's shoes, children's shoes, and slippers. They have the advantages of nourishing feet and comfort, and are deeply welcomed by consumers. The craft of making Nei Liansheng thousand-layer cloth shoes is passed down in the traditional mode of master-apprentice relationship. However, since this skill is complicated and profound, it is difficult to learn and takes a long time to learn. It takes more than three years for an apprentice to become a master. Therefore, fewer and fewer people are learning this skill, and the inheritance is facing a great crisis, which needs to be taken seriously by relevant parties.