Jinan Shopping

Shopping in Jinan can be a real pleasant thing to do since there are so many choices and so many places to go. Don’t be surprised that you will need a bigger suitcase to bring back all the stuff you buy in Jinan, because you will be absorbed into this shopping world and forget about everything else. As tourist destination, there are lots of specialties should be on your shopping list such as embroidery, Muyu Shi (Wooden-Fish Stone), Walnut, E Jiao, Mian Su (Flour Sculpture) and Black Pottery.

Jinan embroidery is famous for the Hair Embroidery and Silk Embroidery, showing the exquisite craft of local people. Mian Su is lively figures and animals made of glutinous rice flour and dyes and antiseptics of different colors.

If you want to buy these specialties and souvenir, Daguanyuan Commercial Center will be the place you are looking for. Also there are other commercial centers at Quancheng Lu, Renmin Market and Si Nanmen can meet you daily needs.

Jinan embroidery is namely Lu Xiu (Shandong Embroidery, Lu is short for Shandong Province.) Jinan's embroidery is famous for the Hair Embroidery and Silk Embroidery. The Fa Xiu (Hair Embroidery) is made with human hair. Chinese 'ink wash' painting made this way is really beautiful and true-to-life.

Muyu Shi (Wooden-Fish Stone), the Wood-Veins Stone, is the russet stone that can be made into crafts. The tea sets made of it can delay the corruption of tea and can separate out various microelements and minerals helpful to human body.

Walnut is one of the export products in Jinan. Zhipi Walnut is the most reputed ones. Zhipi (skin of the paper) indicates the thin shell of the walnut easy to peel off. As we know that the walnut is has a rich nutritious element. It is helpful to human's nervous system, trachea problem and the long-lasting cough.

E Jiao: originated in Dong'e County of Jinan, hence the name. E Jiao, ginseng and alter are three precious traditional Chinese medicines. It is made from the donkey skin and the natural water from Langxi River. It can be made into health care products and E Jiao food, etc.

Mian Su (Flour Sculpture), namely the Dough Doll, is made of glutinous rice flour and dyes and antiseptics of different colors. Only by using fingers and simple tools such as, knives, combs, and bamboo needles, the lifelike sculptures are shaped.

Black Pottery, an ancient pottery species popular 4000 years ago, is found in Longshan Town of Jinan, and is part of Longshan Culture. It has historic value for it is an important symbol to distinguish the earlier and the latter periods of the Neolithic Age.