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The strong folk flavor of Inner-Mongolia gives birth to various unique specialties including the silverwares, carpet, Mongolian knife, horse head string instrument, ox horn handcrafts, cashmere and so on.
If you are interested in these handcrafts, the local bazaar, or market will be ideal places. Inner-Mongolia Antique Shop on Xilin Road, in Hohhot city and the Zhongshan Road in front of the railway station in Baotou city are also popular by the tourist for their abundant specialties, make sure they will bring you some surprise.


Mongolian Silverwares
Mongolian SilverwaresMongolian Silverwares has been famous as early as Yuan Dynasty, which includes bowl, knife, pot and wine vessel, harness, headwear, etc. The silverwares are finely crafted, vivid in color and traditional ethnic The Mongolian bowl is the awarded artwork.

Mongolian Carpet
Mongolian Carpet is characterized with elaborate technics, nice flexibility, soft handle, and colorful patterns. The Carpet is made of local wool, colored with mineral and plant biased dyes and hand woven. Its categories are abundant including natural colored carpet, archaized carpet, Han Dynasty-style carpet, and artistic tapestry.

Mongolian knife
Mongolian knifeMongolian Knife is the daily products and also the baldric of the Mongolian man. A man without his knife will be looked down. The Mongolian knife is in various categories and all kinds of sculpts. The blade is made of steel while the handle is made of red wood or ox horn. The scabbard is made of gold, silver and copper, carved with patterns such as dragon, tiger, cloud, head of animal, etc. The Camel-shaped Mongolian knife is particularly worth mentioning.

Horse head string instrument
Horse head string instrument is a bowed stringed instrument with a scroll carved like a horse’s head, used by the Mongolians. At the top end of the pole, a horse head holds high fastuously, and two strings stand on each side. The body looks like a courser, while the string like the horsewhip in the shepherd. Its refined sculpt and melodious sound are vies as the costful national craftwork.

Ox horn handcrafts
Ox horn handcraftsAncient normads used ox horn to hold alcohol when they made an alliance, so this ox horn is called alliance cup. Now the ox horn handicrafts are roughly divided into three categories: wall-decoration, ornaments and accessories. Altogether there are more than 100 types of products such as animals, bottles and cups, necklaces, rings, earrings, hairclips, belt and calligraphy series.

Cashmere
Cashmere is a rare raw material for textile. Cashmere from Inner Mongolia is world famous. So is camel hair, which can be made into woolen cloth and carpet.


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