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Liulichang Street: Beijing's best street to dig treasures
With slick new malls opening all over the city, Beijing definitely is a shopper’s stop. But one street in particular is right next to some of Beijing’s most famous hotels, and it keeps the style of the old.
Imagine such a place where you will be offered the sense of age, where you can get lost in a sea of antiques and traditional Chinese handicrafts. Beijing’s Liulichang Street enjoys a history that goes back to the early Ming dynasty in the 1500s, and there’s no shortage of artisans around here.
Since several hundred years ago, the street has been one of Beijing’s most trodden places for shopping. Today people walk through Liulichang to shop for paintings, antiques, fans, jade, embroideries, tea sets, and all kinds of Chinese ethnic items.
And it is just the place you’ve been looking for to buy some unique Chinese gifts for friends and family back home!
Here are some of the shops:
Pin Hu Tang – A Good Cup of Tea Made Easy
This quaint shop at the west end of Liulichang Street is where big-time tea lovers go for authentic Yixing purple clay teapots. It’s not far from the Haige International Hotel
Yixing teapots are said to be able to improve your tea by allowing tea aromas to build up right in the walls of the pot. The key is the unusual material they use for the pots: Yixing purple clay, which has micro pores and as such is absorbent.
The clay is unique to Yixing, and the shop carries a large collection of purple clay teapots they made themselves. The owner himself is an accomplished Yixing teapot maker.
The designs of their teapots are quite standout. There you will find shapes imitating pumpkins, gourds, stumps, and castles, to name a few. And you will find skillful engravings on these teapots: a scene showing harmony between man and nature, a quotation from an ancient love poem, or an auspicious animal mounting the lid to entertain your eyes…
These really are things you won’t find in your back home! That might be why so many tourists would like to spend their travel dollars here.
Gu Miao Hua Yuan –- Pristine Beauty of Flowers Live On Your Walls
This interesting little shop is tucked away in a 600-year-old building and offers exceptional Chinese flower paintings that have found their way into the homes of many Beijingers. It is just a short ride away from the Hwa Apartment Hotel.
There you’ll find paintings of plums, orchids, chrysanthemum, and bamboo; all skillfully done by our master – Mr. Xie.
Mr. Xie is the owner of the shop. Despite he paints on all flowers, what he is best at is still peony, the flower that fascinates him the most. To create peonies that are true to nature, he’s spent over a decade observing the flower.
That is an achievement few can accomplish, indeed!
There are both frame and easy-to-take scroll works offered in the shop.
Qing Ci Lan Ting – A Lovely Touch To Your Home
This interesting little shop with an old-fashioned façade carries a large collection of celadon products made in Longquan, a southern Chinese town knows as the hometown of celadon.
There you will be fond of a selection of products with designs found nowhere outside of China. A bowl, for instance, is engraved with a pair of fish that can only be found in a river in Longquan. Another teapot looks like a big river snail. Without giving careful notice, you wouldn’t know it is a teapot!
Frankly, there is a little something for everyone looking for something unique to display at home: a hat-shaped vase for holding roses, a pumpkin-like jar for storing CDs, a lotus leaf-style platter for holding food, and so on.
There are products with cracks all over the body. They are the result of an ancient technique. The body keeps cracking well after a celadon is done, but never breaks into pieces because the glaze holds it into one piece. The cracks only adds to the sense of artistry of the item.
The shop also provides free tea to visitors who might get thirsty from a day of shopping. The manager is a young, soft-spoken lady. Quite a celadon expert, she knows celadon well and is kind enough to tell whatever you hope to know.
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