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Although not the capital, there are still many specialties from handcrafts to replicas that could be found in Luoyang. The Palace Lantern is a special handicraft in Luoyang, once used to celebrate the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) in the imperial palace. The handcraft, Tang Dynasty three-color glazed pottery with a history of as long as 1,000 years could be found in many places. For tea connoisseurs, a taste of the pure and crisp Xinyang tea should not be missed, made from leaves of some of China's most unsullied land. Locals now make thousands of reproductions of the ancient bronze vessels. Various bronze copies of wine cups, swords, chariots and horses are symbolic tourist souvenirs.Local Arts
Luonin Chick
Present to Ming Dynasty as the earliest time. The chick contains portiere, curtain and so on with various shapes of swallow style, curve style, beeline style starriness…… As per the figure of the bamboo, the knitters intwine al kinds of beautiful pictures. The Swallow chick is the most attractive. Its color is the natural mix of verdure and yellowy, quietly elegant.
Luoyang Embroidery
It is the traditional craftwork with the history of more than 2,000 years. With flax as the main material, it is twined into various patterns such as character, flower, fowl, beasts, landscape, gardens, etc.
Palace Lantern
Luoyang palace lantern is a traditional handicraft of the Han nationality, and is a common decoration for the Lantern Festival. It has a wide variety and strong local characteristics. The red gauze lantern is the most famous type. It has a beautiful shape, suitable for writing and painting, easy to support and close, and easy to preserve. It can be used for festive decorations, embellishment and leveling; It can also be used for artistic publicity and recognition of new trends. It can also be used as a souvenir to give to relatives and friends.
Tang Tri-Color Glazed Ceramics
Tang Tri-Color Glazed Ceramics is a treasure of ancient Chinese ceramic firing techniques. Its full name is Tang Tri-Color Glazed pottery. It is a low-temperature glazed pottery popular in the Tang Dynasty. The glaze colors include yellow, green, white, brown, blue, and black, with yellow, green, and white as the main colors. Therefore, people are accustomed to calling it "Tang Tri-Color". Due to the earliest and most unearthed Tang Sancai in Luoyang, it is also known as "Luoyang Tang Sancai".
Bronze-vessel
Bronze-vessel making industry has a long history, starting in the Xia Dynasty and flourishing in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Since 1973, the Luoyang Institute of Arts and Crafts and Luoyang Arts and Crafts Factory have replicated thousands of antique bronze-vessel artifacts, mainly including galloping horse treading on a flying swallow, rhinoceros, drunken demons, Fang Yi, chariot and horse figurines, figure figurines, galloping horses, various wine vessels, knives, swords, etc. The Bronze-vessel reproduces the historical scene, and it also can be used as interior decoration and tourist souvenir.
Xinyang Tea
Xinyang is well-known for its perennial mist veiling the mountains, which is indispensable for the growth of tea of the best kind. With the unpolluted air and water creating an almost perfect environment, tea here can be harvested three times a year, thus forming a sharp contrast with the common practice of the annual tea leaves collection across China. Among the three batches, the autumn brew is usually the best
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