Dunhuang Shopping

Local products: Dunhuang melon, painted sculpture, luminous cup, handmade carpet, craftworks of camels, calligraphy and painting, antiques, Dunhuang wax printing and glasses of crystal stone, etc.

The city is not big and most famous shopping places are gathered around the Rebound Pipa Statue at city center. Dunhuang Pedestrian Street and Shazhou Market are good places for shopping. Daily articles, food and souvenirs can be found at those places. The souvenir market out at the Mogao Grottos is also a good place to buy because of its good price.

The well-known shopping places inside Dunhuang City have: Feitian Market, Tianma Market, Gongxiao Market, Shazhou Market, the comprehensive market in Nanguan, Sufangzai ...etc.

In the markets mentioned above, you can buy most of the crafts and souvenirs of Dunhuang. Also there are big supermarkets in the city for daily needs.

There's something interesting about shopping in Dunhuang, you will not only can buy adoring special products and handicraft products which you like, but also can hear a lot of beautiful legends which the stand lord speak.

In Dunhuang, you can buy special crystal stone glasses, crystal type jewelry, the white camel of jade, silk carpet in Dunhuang, statues, mural reproduction, luminous cup, wax dye dress etc.

According to history records, Dunhuang Fragrant Sweet Fruits with a long history had been a tribute since Han Dynasty. It will be a pity if you miss tasting it when traveling in Dunhuang. With high sugar content, Dunhuang Fragrant Sweet Fruits are really fine delicacies which can quench the thirst and relieve the summer heat.

Dubhuang Painted Sculpture is an important part of Dunhuang grotto art and has been popular with both domestic and foreign tourists for its delicate technics and various shapes. There are all kinds of figures sculpted on it vividly and the main images of Dunhuang Painted Sculpture are Buddha statues such as Sakyamuni, Maitreya, Bodhisattva, and so on.

Since 1990s, Dunhuang has introduced the wax printing craftwork, such as processing buddhas, bodhisattvas, gigaku and other images into clothes, wall hangings, and curtains, giving this traditional craftwork new vitality.

The camel is the main conveyance tool on the ancient Silk Road. It is also one of the special animals in the big desert, it bears the heat and strict cold, bears the hunger and the thirst are clever. People often use it to take things in the desert; it is called "the boat of the desert" in the Gobi desert. Its firm and unyielding meekly tolerate insult negative bear suffering the spirit and simple and the images of honest, large and strong heavily deeply get the people fancy, once was taken as the mascot of the Chinese art stanza in Dunhuang, the handicrafts of the folks take cotton as birth, binds the specially made flannel to make into outside of camels which appearance each simple different shapes that can make person love to release, it is the really and only memorial good product with special features of tour.

The history of carpet of Dunhuang is long; it is passed from generation to generation. The carpet of Dunhuang is good at imitating the art patterns of Dunhuang, adopts the fine traditional handicraft to process but become, handicraft is choiceness, the color is fresh and gorgeous, it is beautiful and generous. The raw material are the deluxe wool whose fiber is long, the thick and thin are moderation, the luster is good, pull is strong. The finished products which use the wool to make, the color is coordination, the wood grain is vivid, the surface is shining, the quality is soft, it is rich with the flexibility. Handled by special craft, the external appearances ancient color and joss-stick, gives the person a kind of felling which is secretly and deeply bright and peaceful and comfortable. It melts the beauty of the murals of Dunhuang and rugged of the mountains and streams of the Northwest and uncivilized in the integral whole, and has the color patterns of the Arabian style. The quality of carpet of Dunhuang is solid and takes long time to bear whet, the categories are numerous, the price is cheap, it is taken as the very ideal living quarters and exquisite articles hung on the wall by visitors.

Luminous cup in Dunhuang is again called Yangguan Jade Cup. It takes the high-quality ink jade, topaz and jaspers which are produced in Qilian Mountain as the raw material, inherits the traditional craft work to chisel and carve but become, it is a very valuable alcohol container.

Choose to the crystallize intact transparent natural quartz crystal in Aerjin Mountain to process and grind but become, are many kinds of glasses, like anastigmatic, short sighted, far sighted and optics changeable glass.

The category of melons and fruit of Dunhuang is numerous, each is sweet than honey. "The shell melon" presents the oval, getting name because of likeness shell. Its body is big, small melon is heavy more than ten catties, the big melon is heavy 30 catties or 40 catties. The skin is thin and meat is thick, the color presents the dark yellowish green, the pulp of melon is fresh red, the seed is small and little. Sweet sand frailty of its flavor, person's lung. If wipe lightly once with the clean dish cloth each two days, it can be deposited to the Chinese New Year.