When choosing the souvenirs for your friends or relatives, those characteristic handicraft articles can be the best choices. Among the local specialties, Wax Dyed Cloth, Dali Snow Pear, Marble craftworks, Tuo Cha of Xiaguan… are the most famous.

 

Wax Dyed Cloth

Wax-dyed cloth is a folk handicraft of ethnic groups in Yunnan Province which is made by applying wax to white fabric in order keep sections undyed when the fabric is dipped in blue dye. This rather plain, yet charming handicraft shows off various local cultural symbols including animals, flowers and legendary personages. The cloth is made into garments, handbags, and tapestries or simply sold as wall hangings.

 

Dali Snow Pear

Snow Pear, planted and cultivated in Haidong District, on the eastern shore of Erhai Lake, is one of the finest pear species. It is round as a ball, green in peel and white in pulp. A big one can weigh one fourth of a kilogram. With rich sugar content, apple-acid, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B and C, the pear is juicy and sweet, and has the quality of promoting the production of body fluid and quenching a thirst. It moistens the throat and relieves a cough.

 

Marble craftworks

Dali marble, beautiful in patterns and colours, refined in texture and multiform in variety, has a strong anti-corrosive nature. It is good for making high-grade building material and handicrafts. Tourist souvenirs made of Dali marble with natural patterns has a very bright future. They are very beautiful.

Tuo Cha

Tuo Cha (white tea or a bowl-shaped compressed mass of tea leaves) is the traditional local tea and s&ely produced by the Xiaguan Tea Plant. The material is the first-harvest leaves of the year. Through the process of screening, rubbing, compressing and drying, the lump of tea leaves is made to look like an upside-down cake, called Tuocha, black in colour. The tea water is clear, aromatic and sweet. To drink Tuocha persistently will have the result of reducing fat and hypertension. So now it has become a best seller both at home and abroad.

 

Recommended shopping places

Sifangjie (Square Street) Supermarket
Address: No.13, West Street, Xiaguan, Dali City

Minsheng Shopping Market
Address: Guangfa Mansion, Central Jianshe Road, Xiaguan, Dali City

Dali Jianshe Department Store

Address: No.1, East Jianshe Road, Xiaguan, Dali City

 

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