Finding the Perfect Souvenir in Guilin

When visiting Guilin, apart from beautiful landscape, there are many specialties that will attract you. As Guilin is a multi-national gathering place, many ethnic products here are special. Let’s show you some.

What To Buy

Guilin Landscape Painting

Guilin landscape painting has distinctive position in Chinese landscape painting, and many painters are famous because of Guilin landscape painting. It makes Guilin beautiful scenery as the main theme and uses traditional Chinese painting style. You can that everywhere, in art exhibition, picture show, newspaper, painting album and internet. Since 1980s, there were a batch of painters devoted on describing Li River landscape and scenery of southern Guangxi, gradually, a new style of painting risen – Lijiang Painting School.

You can see Guilin landscape painting on tablemat, fan, paper umbrella, clothing and kinds of bags and so on.

Artistic Ceramics

Guilin exquisite artistic ceramics has novel design, and the color is simple and elegant, which is so vividly. This beautiful craftwork is not famous in China, but has great reputation in the world.

Yangshuo Painting Fan

Yangshuo Painting Fan is a masterwork of China fans, it uses good paper for painting as fan covering, and paintings on the fan make a feature of Guilin landscape, besides, it still includes kind of flowers, birds, fish and insects and so on. All of them are artistic and beautiful.

Bamboo Carving

Guilin bamboo carving artwork is recherché, and now it is distinctive cultural handwork. It mainly features pierced work, the artworks have maintains, flowers, birds, fishes or worms, and also it can be a big screen or small chopsticks. However, it keeps a high artistic level.

Fern Plaiting Article

It is handmade articles that use local wildings, and it has typical ethnic feature and local color. A finished article needs complicated techniques, which has nearly thousand varieties, such as flower basket, hanging basket and kinds of wall hangings, which is practicable and novel.

Zhuang Embroidery

Zhuang Embroidery is one of the famous four embroideries in China. It is originated in Song Dynasty (960-1279), which is Guangxi cultural treasure. This exquisite handcraft is weaved by cotton thread or silk thread, and vivid and rich pattern, and the color is bright. Zhuang Embroidery can be made as quilt cover, bed cover, apron, kinds of bags and etc.

Embroidery Ball

Zhuang embroidery ball is full of ethnic character, which is a gift for Zhuang male and female to pledge their love. It is made of twelve silk petals, and each petal is embroidered with patterns such as flowers or bird and worm to represent everlasting lover.

Gold and Silver Ornament

Gold and silver ornaments are favorites of girls, and Guilin gold and silver ornaments are full-bodied with ethnic character. They are well-designed, and have various styles, which are so attractive.

Li River Wonder Stone

Nature gifts wonderful landscapes of Li River, meanwhile Li River’s wonder stones as well. Most of stones come from Li River, and part of them is from Dayuan River (the branch river of Li River). Its shapes are grotesque and the color is rich, which is so popular among tourists.

Xingping Clog

It is a kind of wooden shoes peculiar to Xingping town, Yangshuo. Its feature is that it is all made of Chinaberry-wood, which is comfortable when bathing or leisure time. If you wear it for a long time, that would cure the disease of foot.

Where to buy

Yangshuo West Street

With a history of 1400 years, Yangshuo West Street is the oldest street in Yangshuo County. It is 1180 meters long, and it is a gathering place of tourist souvenirs and snack, besides, it is also called Foreigner Street, because it is the street close packed with the most foreigners in China.
Location: Yangshuo County center.

Wayao International Tourist Goods Wholesale City

It is the largest artistic handcraft wholesale market in southwestern China. Wayao Wholesale City has root carving and wood carvings in the south of the market; jewelry and jade wares in the south; stone artwork, calligraphy and painting in the west and so on.
Location: Wanyao Industrial area, Guilin

Tourist Handcraft Street on Binjiang Road

It sells products including artistic ceramics, bamboo carvings, landscape painting, paper fan and paper umbrella, crystal articles, jade wares and pearls and so on.

Night market in Zhongshan Mid Road

Night market in Zhongshan Mid Road has been a big feature in Guilin. The street has many street stalls to sell handicraft articles, local products, local snacks and etc. You will find whatever you want here.

Weixiaotang Building

It is a modern department store integrating shopping, entertainment and repast. You will find jade carvings, Yangshuo painting fan, bamboo carvings, metal artworks, glazed ceramics with engravings...it operates from 9:00 to 21:30.
Location: No.37, Zhongshan Middle Road

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