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Qinhuangdao Shopping

Shopping in Qinhuangdao is a delightful experience. The numerous decorated bazaars, shopping malls and huge departmental stores attract your attention the moment you enter the city. It is a pleasant idea to take back home a souvenir from the city for yourself as well as your love ones. Located adjacent to Bohai Bay, Qinhuangdao offers many local products and specialties that come straight from the sea. In addition to abundant sea products such as crabs, scallops, whelks, pikes and sea cucumbers, Qinhuangdao offers many handicrafts and ornaments that are made from sea products.

Local Arts

Qinhuangdao Shell Mosaic
Qinhuangdao Shell Mosaic is the handicraft that is made of the spiral shells from the seashore. The local craftsmen of the shell carving use the traditional skills of shell inlaying and the structure of Chinese traditional painting. They adopt the strong points of the arts of teeth carving and wood carving, and carve the varied and interesting relief picture. And it gets its own special style. The craftsmen use the natural color, grain and shape of the shells, accord the need of pattern and inlay the Qinhuangdao Shell Mosaic. It has the exquisite workmanship and careful ornament. After the shell is cut and smoothened, some of them are as thin as cicada's wings, some are as tiny as the grain of rice, some are as thin as hair and some are as bright as pearls. In order to made every line or every part more distinct, the craftsmen also choose the shell that has a original color to make the color of the picture more vivid. For example, the Red-mouth Spinal is used as the camellia and the Pink-mouth one is used as the lotus.

Shanhai Pass Artificial Amber
Amber, a kind of resin fossil formed from the natural resin for thousands of years, ranks with agate and emerald for its rarity. The Shanhai Pass copies the natural amber, makes full use of the artificial resin and encircles the plants and animal’s bodies in the crystal. Shanhai Pass Artificial Amber has not only scientific value but also artistic value. The biological exemplar made by the artificial amber can remain the color and shape for a long time, and it could also reappear the varied biotic postures in the nature, which has the important meaning in science, teaching and exhibition. It could be used to beauty the common life as the various ornaments, daily necessities and souvenirs. With the advantage of facing the sea and rich in wild plants and animals’ resources, Shanhai Pass Artificial Amber collects more than 120 kinds including the cicada, shrimp, butterfly, frog, locust, mantis, small tortoise and crab etc.

Others
There are some other craftworks full of local features such as pearl accouterment, coral necklace, pearl shell amulet, hawksbill comb, portiere, brick carving and so on.

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