Due to the unique geographical environment of the plateau, and it is the capital of
Yunnan where is a center city of all ethnic groups to inhabit, Kunming is a rendezvous for plateau items and national features.
Dai Bamboo Basketry
Besides Dai Jin, Dai Bamboo Basketry is another artwork made by those Dai artists. Take bamboo as the main material and use their hands to wave a beautiful basketry, Dai Bamboo Basketry is a good souvenir which tells you the minority culture in Yunnan. Dai people are also clever at making articles of bamboo. Dai families live in bamboo houses in which everything is made of bamboo including cabinets and hats.
Colorful basketry handicrafts of Dai minority will give you a delighted mood when you see them. It is recommended to choose some Dai bamboo basketries as you household articles such as a basket for holding things, a hat for sunny day, a cabinet for restoring things, etc…Any number of souvenirs and home accents can be had cheaply if you’re willing to bargain for it.
Dai Brocade
Some one said, the ethnic people in China are a group of artists. This sentence can be proved when you see Dai Jin (brocade made by Dai artisans) in Yunnan Province. Dai is a main minority residing in Yunnan. And most Dai women can weave Dai Brocade, a kind of drapery with colorful and unique designs used to make bags, curtains, bedclothes, cushions, etc. – which are excellent gifts for relatives and friends.
Dai Brocade is an ancient traditional textile handicraft popular among the Dai people. Every Dai woman is good at weaving it. It is famous for its exquisite weaving, elegant pattern, bright color, beautiful presentation, durability and strong ethnic styles. Different colors and patterns contain different meanings. For example, red and green sarong shows Dai people’s commemoration of their ancestors, a peacock pattern indicates auspiciousness, and an elephant symbolizes a bumper harvest. Bags made of Dai brocade are the necessities of Dai people as well as tokens between lovers.
Batik
Batik is folk manual dye transfer craft popular in ethnic minority areas in Yunnan province, Kunming batik fabrics integrated of Yunnan minority culture, its design is unique, of primitive simplicity and easy, the price of a batik about 15 Yuan.
Wood Carving
Kunming wood carving is bigger than the ivory carving in size. This kind of carving products is mainly in wood furniture including chairs, benches and tea tables. It is all known that Yunnan is one of the best places to purchase goods made from wood. The pieces are extraordinarily smooth and sometimes polished or lacquered, making them warm and pleasing to the touch.
Sani Saddlebag
The industrious and intelligent Sani women cultivated and developed a true instinct for the beautiful and the fine hand sewing skills in the charming Stone Forest landscape and their masterpiece of embroidery saddlebags are welcome by overseas visitors. Sani Saddlebag is a kind of life appliance, also is a kind of beautiful national folk arts and crafts. Saddlebag’s design and cross-stitch work skill has the strong national characteristics and local color. It is the representative of ethnic hanging bags in Yunnan that won a national tourism product award.
Jewelry and Jade
Due to historical and geographical reasons, Kunming in Yunnan is the center, support by Tengchong, Ruili, Mangshi as jewelry jade collection and distribution center. Among Yunnan jewelry jade, jadeite is a kind of chalchiguite, produce chiefly in Burma.
Tea
In Qing dynasty, Yunnan tea became famous. Yunnan tea is given priority to big leaves tea. Yunnan tea with strong tea aroma, and its price is low compared with the rest of the country's same quality of tea, whether your buy it for personal use or as gift, it is suitable. And the best exported tea isYunnan Black Tea, Pu’er Tea etc., but Yunnan people’s most favorite drink is unrefined large leaf tea.
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