Xi 'an main shopping block: 1. Shuyuanmen Cultural Street mainly sells Four Treasures of the Study, calligraphy and paintings and various tourist souvenirs. Huimin Street mainly sells various local products, handicrafts and tourist souvenirs. Jiefang Road-East Street-Bell Tower-South Street-West Street is a shopping block with strong commercial atmosphere. There are many modern shopping places, many high-end department stores and various specialty stores, as well as several large supermarkets. 4. Around the Big Wild Goose Pagoda Cross is a professional market for computers, various digital products and accessories, and there are many large digital shops. In addition to large department stores, Xiaozhai business circle is also a place where trendy shops gather and a paradise for young people to go shopping.
6. Kangfu Road Textile Market mainly wholesales all kinds of clothes and a large number of small commodities. Good eyesight and hard bargaining, you can buy many good things at low prices here. However, the market environment is a bit chaotic, and it is not recommended for foreign tourists to shop here. Local Products Tourist Souvenirs You can buy many famous local products of Shaanxi in xi 'an, such as walnuts, pomegranates, thick wine, crystal cakes, preserved beef and yellow expensive thick wine. The supermarkets where these specialties are located generally have specialty areas for sale, which saves tourists the trouble of finding them. There are also many shops in Huimin Street, dealing in all kinds of specialties and special dried fruit cakes, and they can make a counter-offer. Some handicrafts and tourist souvenirs, such as replicas of terracotta warriors and horses of various sizes, paper-cut works of art, farmers' paintings in Huxian County, etc.
It is also the best product for tourists to buy souvenirs or give gifts to relatives and friends. These handicrafts are sold at the counters of some department stores, but the prices are relatively expensive; There are many shops selling this kind of goods in Shuyuanmen and Huimin Street, and they can all bargain. Qin Qing bronze chariots and horses imitated Qin Qing bronze chariots and horses are two large painted bronze chariots and horses excavated by Chinese archaeologists in 1980 on the east side of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum, with exquisite craftsmanship and vivid shapes. Imitation of Qin bronze chariots and horses is lifelike, which can confuse the real with the fake, not only meets the shopping needs of Chinese and foreign tourists, but also enriches the treasure house of arts and crafts in China. Chopsticks are the dining tools of China people. Known by foreigners as oriental civilization. Shangluo wooden chopsticks, produced in Shangnan, Yangshan, Zhen 'an and other counties in Shangluo, Shaanxi, are famous specialties in Shaanxi.
Tied with Hangzhou Tianzhu Chopsticks and Fuzhou Lacquered Chopsticks as the three famous chopsticks in China. Flower chopsticks are made of holly wood, with proper annual rings and strong trunk. When making, it is broken into thin strands, and the chopsticks embryo is cut, scraped, rounded, polished into wooden chopsticks, and then fired. Burning flowers is the key to processing. With accurate wrist and finger strength, the author fired elegant patterns such as flowers, grass, mountains and running water. Imitation of Qin Terracotta Warriors With the excavation and exhibition of Qin Terracotta Warriors, replicas of Qin Terracotta Warriors have increasingly become ideal souvenirs and gifts for Chinese and foreign tourists. Its variety is suitable for exhibitions in art galleries and museums. Can also be used for home decoration, furnishings and gifts to relatives and friends.
Satisfied the shopping needs of Chinese and foreign tourists, and made the Terracotta Warriors go out of Shaanxi and travel all over the world. Colored plastic colored plastic is a traditional folk sculpture handicraft with clay as the main material and colored after drying, which is called colored plastic for short. Fengxiang painted clay sculpture is a folk art in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province, which is called clay goods by local people. Fengxiang County is located in the west of Guanzhong Plain. Pottery figurines were unearthed in tombs during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period and the Han and Tang Dynasties, indicating that the pottery figurines were beautifully shaped.
There are three types of Fengxiang colored sculptures. One is clay toys, mainly animal models, carving the image of the zodiac. The second is to hang pictures, such as Facebook, Tiger Head, Bull Head, Lion Head, Kirin Pine Nut and Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea; Thirdly, Li Ren pays attention to shaping the characters in folklore and historical stories. Fengxiang clay sculpture has 170 varieties of colors, including giant crouching tiger, tiger hanging face, rabbit and lion.
Black clay, white powder, leather glue, etc. They are all made with qualitative molds, exquisite and exaggerated shapes, colorful decorations, bright and festive colors, and innocent and lovely shapes, which are unique among many folk clay sculptures in China. Before the 1960s, more than 300 farmers in Liuying Village and its surrounding villages produced clay sculptures. At present, only artists such as Hu Kun, Hu Xinmin, Hu Yongxing, Han Suocun and Du Yin are engaged in the creation and production of clay sculptures in their spare time. Fengxiang clay sculpture has strong local flavor and high research value of folk culture, folk art and aesthetics, which has attracted the attention of relevant experts.
However, under the influence of the commercial environment, the current Fengxiang clay sculpture artists often set their output by sales volume, blindly catering to the market demand, making many traditional products almost extinct, and also making Fengxiang clay sculpture skills gradually lose their original cultural connotation and constantly change. Farmers in Liudaoying Village in the east of Fengxiang County; They all have the traditional artistic skills of making painted clay sculptures, which have been passed down for generations. Every spring festival, every household, men, women and children should make some clay toys and sell them to people in four towns as gifts. This is also a toy that children are proud of in festivals every year.
Clay toys painted with figures, such as Tang Priest; Monkeys and pigs, animals are lions, tigers, cows, horses, chickens and dogs, and plants are melons, pomegranates, peaches and gourds. Most of them are hollow garden plastic bodies. Painted clay toys are simple to make and low in cost. Clay and paper pulp are mixed into plastic mud, which is first made into molds, turned into embryos, dried and then decorated. Then apply white primer, then paint and finally polish. Fengxiang colored plastic toys are summarized, refined, vivid, lively and lovely. The author is good at grasping the characteristics of the object, simplifying the complex and expressing the inner character of the depicted object.
For example, the common mud: the tiger summarizes the fierce characteristics of tigers, lions and leopards, boldly exaggerating art; Let the mud tiger come alive; Simple, simple. There are generous and honest lying cows, clever monkeys, stupid pigs and so on. People and animals are full of pride: they can't let go. Fengxiang colored plastic has unique colors. Although there are not many colors used, the contrast is strong. In the choice of color, red, green and yellow are the main colors, and simple lines are marked with black ink, which is more gorgeous and eye-catching. In the farmhouse around Fengxiang and Qishan, when the children celebrate their birthdays, grandma and uncles will give the clay animals painted by Fengxiang as gifts to the children to ward off evil spirits.
This habit is still popular today. Fengxiang color plastic field has a long history. Legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang led the troops here in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the soldiers were Jiangxi cousins. Later, I stayed to farm. Most of them are good at ceramic crafts, and they will make some toys as gifts in their spare time. As time goes by, they become more and more perfect, thus developing into today's colorful clay sculptures. There are also relief pendants in colored sculptures, such as tiger heads, monkey faces, facial makeup and so on. Among them, tiger head color plastic hanging film is the most distinctive. For a long time, this tiger's head hanging film has evolved into this toy through the artistic processing of several generations of folk artists. Fierce tiger face, after the artist's concise and summarized techniques, is shaped into a dignified and lively ornament.
Since ancient times, it has been widely spread in the west of Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province. People regard it as an auspicious thing to ward off evil spirits, appreciate it as a work of art, and it has also become a gift for each other. Usually, a child is born with a full moon. On their first birthday, grandma and uncle always send a photo of a mud tiger head as a heavy gift. When was the painted sculpture hung?
For example, the bronze tiger head shield unearthed in Shengzhou Garden, Qishan County, Shaanxi Province is very similar to today's painted tiger head hanging film. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, wooden boxes, knockers and metal parts on the wheels of cattle and horses in rural areas are all similar to the images of tiger's head and beast's face hanging on film. These facts show that since primitive society and slave society, people did not understand some natural phenomena and could not overcome the disasters in life. Instead, they pinned their hopes on the gods, yearned for happiness and beauty, got rid of obstacles and sought shelter, thus bringing tigers to towns and houses and yearning for the gods to protect peace. There are tiger head ornaments in temples, cottages, ancestral halls, stone carvings, bronzes and daily-use ceramics in the vast rural areas of Baoji.
Of course, bronzes were mostly enjoyed by aristocratic slave owners. Mud and coarse porcelain are mostly used by civilians. Over time, it has gradually developed into a tiger's head color plastic pendant hanging in the house today. It is not only used to use the tiger's yang Wei to build urban houses, but also an artistic appreciation to decorate people's lives. It is no wonder that among all kinds of painted clay sculptures, tiger-head painted plastic pendants are more popular. Fengxiang colored sculptures began in the pre-Qin and Western Zhou Dynasties and spread among the people for 3,000 years. It is the oldest and most ethnic clay sculpture handicraft in China. According to textual research experts, its painted patterns are different from those of Western Zhou bronzes. The image modeling with flowers, birds, fish, insects, birds and beasts as its main features is the remains of totem worship, reproductive worship and deity worship in ancient China, which embodies the cultural characteristics of the totem era.
It is refined through dozens of processes, such as mold making, embryo turning, adhesive molding, fine polishing, painting, threading, coloring and polishing. And its modeling is realistic, rough and exaggerated. It is praised for its simple, powerful and lovely shape, bright red and green colors, hearty lines and romantic and magical ornamentation. Deeply praised and loved by people at home and abroad. It is an artistic treasure for friends and relatives, and also a tourist souvenir with Shaanxi characteristics.
It is also the mascot of the town house to ward off evil spirits, keep the family safe, increase happiness and send happiness. All kinds of color blocks and patterns have specific meanings. Green represents longevity; Red, meaning Four Seasons rise of the legend; Pomegranate means many blessings and many children; Ai means detoxification to ward off evil spirits; Begonia, meaning wealth; Butterflies have many blessings; Peony symbolizes auspiciousness and brilliance; The infiltration of money means wealth and profit. These exquisite symbols are combined in series into a complete work of art under the unified control of the concepts of survival, profit and avoidance. In addition, Su Bai's works are mainly influenced by China's paintings and calligraphy, which are vulgar, elegant and strange.
Imitation of Tang tri-color refers to the ceramics produced in the Tang Dynasty, which are decorated and fired with yellow sauce, grass green and cyan glaze. As the capital of the Tang Dynasty, Xi 'an unearthed a large number of three-color pottery figurines, pottery horses and pottery camels from the tombs of the Tang Dynasty. Imitation of tri-colored figurines, tri-colored horses, tri-colored camels and utensils of the Tang Dynasty. Craftsmen make products with superb skills and purely according to ancient methods, forcing products to look novel, vivid, beautiful and full of personality, with different shapes, sizes and specifications. The main tourist attractions in Xihe and Xianyang, especially the tombs of the Tang emperors, foreign-related shops in the Ming Tombs, airports and station shopping malls, are sold. Imitation of Tang tri-color is vivid, full of personality, touching artistic charm and unique style of horses and chariots. The price is 40 ~ 800 yuan.
Peasant paintings in Shaanxi originated from the people, mainly figures, animals and flowers and birds. The composition is simple and beautiful, emphasizing the number of colors and pursuing a strong intuitive effect. Rich local customs, healthy and simple content, give people a positive passion. Shaanxi peasant paintings are mainly distributed in Huxian County in Guanzhong, Ansai and Luochuan in northern Shaanxi. Huxian is known as the hometown of peasant paintings. There are more than 2,000 local peasant painters, and many excellent works are collected by art galleries at home and abroad. Main shopping places: Xi 'an Academy Gate, Donghan Village, Huxian County. Special reminder 1. Buy all kinds of tourist handicrafts and souvenirs, and beware of touching porcelain. Please pick up damaged things, such as porcelain, jade, pottery, antiques, etc.
Don't look at things by yourself, especially when you don't plan to buy them at all. Go shopping in places with dense stalls, such as Shuyuanmen, Huajue Lane and Huimin Street. And be careful not to let the backpack touch the goods on the booth. If you are not going to buy anything, don't bargain with the seller. If you set a price and don't buy it, you may be in trouble. 3. If you meet vendors who take advantage on the streets and sidewalks, don't join in the fun, and don't try to take advantage, especially when there are many people, because these people are likely to be childcare. 4. Take care of your belongings in the crowded block. There are many supermarkets in the west, which are enough to meet the various needs of tourists.
Close to the city center, there are Fenxiang CR Vanguard, Nanjie, Jiefang Road Renrenle, Ximen Trust-Mart, Ximenwai Renrenle, Carrefour in North Street and Wal-Mart in East Street. These are very convenient. The easiest way is to ask the local people on the street where the nearest supermarket is, which is usually easy to find. 6. There will be no so-called cultural relics sold secretly, especially the treasures dug up in your own home. Never believe that Shaanxi will never have so many cultural relics. Don't be greedy and cheap, beware of scams.