Datong Shopping
As the important material distributing center of Shanxi, Hebei and Monglia, the market in Datong make you reluctant to return just as its view. Its featured specialities tell the ancient story of Datong and witness its development of long history. Its commercial area mainly gathers in Da Xi Jie and Si Pai Lou and Xiao Nan Jie. There you can find the largest Department Store, Shopping Marketplace, special stores for women and children. The Commodities are high quality and cheap, if you bargain enough, you will discover some satisfied ones.
Local Craftworks
Cupreous Chaffy Dish
With a long history and exquisite technics, Datong Cupreous Chaffy Dish has been taken a great reputation during North Wei Period. It is made up of batholith, pan body, seat, cover, fire canister, as well as small cover. Some traditional pictures such as “dragon and phoenix playing” “pie stepping on plum” “Eight immortals crossing the sea” “flower, bird, mountain, water” etc are caved separately on the batholith, body, cover and small cover. The Cupreous Chaffy Dish is highly gratulated for its traditional character not only in home but also overseas including Japan, America, Singapore, Malaysia, German as well as Hongkong and Macao.
Wool Carpet
As a kind of handcraft of the orthodox exit in our country, the wool carpet possesses the great reputation on the international market for its special style. Datong wool carpet could be traced back to Chunqiu and zhanguo period and it reached a high technic in Donghan Period. They could knit a various wood grain pictures making use of various colors of red, brown, purple and green, etc.
After the liberation, Datong built up its own carpet factories. The quality of its hairs is good and does carefully, the patterns are novel, and the colors are in harmony with, through long time and enduring. The products are designed exquisitely with four capes are symmetry, which are divided into big side, medium side, and small side. The center patterns are often the landscape scenery, strange flowers and different grass, the loose and crane postpones the year, fiver hold satisfied, and good luck. Therefore, it not only is welcome everywhere in the whole country and popular in England, France, Japan, Canada, and Hongkong-Macao region.
Yungang Juanren
In Ming and Qing Dynasty, there was the habit of buying the clay and rag dolls on the temple fair. At that time some people bought it to pray for a son, longevity, dispelling disease.
After liberation, the clay dolls were eliminated while the rag dolls were more and more exquisite. Many girls pay more attention to work in sewing the rag dolls showing their clever and deft. Kang Qiaoling, the artist of Juanren is versatile. On the base of sewing the rag dolls, she express the painting masks of characters in plays, dress, figure, Yungang Stone Cave, all kinds of statues of Buddha in Huayan Temple. Her products are made of damask silk, silk, satin, voile, thin silk, and brocade with the local special feature, given a beautiful name—Yungang Juanren.
Because the manufacture craft of Juanren in Yungang raises continuously, they have already developed from originally only Juanren to the large light exhibition of Juanren. Therefore, Juanren in Yungang can visit in the whole country have exhibition everywhere.
Colored Glaze
Colored Glaze is listed on the head of its kind in China for its long history, exquisite technic, high quality, beautiful shape, and the pealike color. Because of firm and endure, it was adopted in the many ancient architectures.
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Datong Main Shopping Markets
Datong Two Famous Commercial Streets
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