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Harbin is one of the largest commercial cities of the Northeast, the commercial buildings stands in great numbers on every large street in the city, such as the Russian Commodity Street, the Department Store of Harbin, Qiulin Company. The souvenirs in Harbin are also attractive. Panax, Pilose antler and marten are regarded as three Treasures’ of Northeast of China. As Harbin is close to Russia, it is not surprised to find some Russian handcrafts, such as the Russian dolls which is the best souvenirs for you.

Unique Souvenirs

Russian Dolls
Russian Dolls, made of wood, is a hollow doll covered one by one, the most up to more than 10. Its pictures are depicted into several kinds: the religion story, the Fellini’s Russia and Russian Figures. The common figure is a Russian girl, later appears Mythological characters, even the Russian leaders such as Stalin, Khrushchev, Lenin, etc. are drawn.

Northeastern Tirana
Northeastern Tirana refers to ginseng, marten, and antler. Ginseng contains wild and artificial ones, the famous and precious Chinese medicinal materials. It is good to mend the vitality, nourish blood and promote salivation.
The marten is the skin of the sable, which is a kind of wild animal living in the remote thickly forested mountains. They are the rare material for clothes.
The antler points to the male deer’s young horn but with fine hair, also one of the most precious tonics in traditional Chinese medicine.

Fangzheng Paper-cut
Fangzheng Paper-cut begins from 1980s with strong local color. The style is succinct and clear. The craft is fine and smooth, creative and are basically breaking the folk paper-cut mode category that follow a set routine on the creation.

Harbin Knit Embroiders
With flax, the local product in Heilongjiang Province, as the raw material, on the basis of embroider, the handcraft adopts the hook, forming, knitting etc, so the finished products are refined. It is various in pictures including animals, plants, or figures. They are used as tablecloth, napkin, a cushion, cushion, sofa cushion, bedspread, mandarin coat, etc.

The handcraft picture of Wheat straw
Handicraft picture of wheat straw was evolved from the sixties of the 20th century, the actors drew lessons from the folk paper-cut skill and technique. First process the raw material, wheat straw, then make its type according to the design, then cut, carve, rob hair, add luster. The background of the picture adopts and gushes out the craft of painting multi-lawyerly. It has strong three-dimensional effect, and graceful naturally. The handicraft picture of wheat straw takes the fancy of domestic and international customer with its unique artistic style

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