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There are a variety of handicrafts and local products with local characteristics and minority features. 1£©
2£©[The Embroidery and Cross-stitch Works] The embroidery and cross-stitch works are the two exquisite art works full of national tradition features, each having its own unique features: delicate and pretty of the Buyi, splendid and colorful of the Miao; simple but tasteful of the Shui, lucid and lively of the Dong¡ Among the embroideries, the Miao one is typical, with the materials from nature such as fresh flowers, fruits, bees, butterflies, birds, fish, shrimps, insects and crabs. They are embroidered into geometric patterns bringing about the appealing decorative effect in the great and bold artistic exaggeration. The cross-stitch work, mainly in a geometric pattern knitted with rhythm, is a kind of decorative art designed according to the warp and woof of the fabric. The Miao people of Huaxi, a suburban district, are well known for their ingenious and fine cross-stitch work. Their traditional skills have been improved in colors and compositions to meet the needs and demands of the consumers as well as be appreciated for their modern beauty.
3£©[Bonamo Paintings on Winnowing Fans] The paintings are the
minority peasant paintings in Guiyang, Bonamo, in Buyi language, refers
to the Yunwu Mountain surrounding the suburbs. The peasants paint flowers,
plants, insects fish, flying birds and beasts, the sun, the moon, the
mountains and rivers, the fairy stories and legends on the winnowing
fans which are exquisite handicraft articles, full of the strong flavor
of rural life 4£©[Art of Woodcut] Taking the woody plant, vine and herbs as material, the works of woodcut are full of sense of plain and modern beauty, expressing the aesthetics interest of the remote antiquity, mysterious plain, and a bold and unconstrained primitive culture. There is a great deal of works with various characteristics. The Exhibition of Chen Baiqiu¡¯s Woodcut Works, held in China Art Gallery in Beijing, has taken a great influence in the domestic and foreign art field. China Art Gallery collects three pieces of his works.
5£©[Peculiar Stones] There is rich visual peculiar stone resource in Guizhou as a result of the exceptional geological structure and landforms. The total number of the visual peculiar stones with various shapes and splendid color in Guizhou takes one fourth of those in the country such as green stone, Panjiang stone, Wuyang stone, river stones, natural traditional Chinese painting stone, unique vertebrate fossils such as Hu¡¯s Guizhou Dragon, and quartz named ¡°rose on the plateau¡±. The quality visual peculiar stones are gathered together in Guiyang. Some exhibition halls are built in Cuiwei Garden and Yangming Temple.
6£©[Traditional Chinese Medicine] As one of the four medicine production zones of the country, Guizhou is rich in medicinal materials with more than 4,000 kinds of high quality medicinal plants, which causes it to enjoy the good reputation of ¡°the home of genuine medicinal materials¡±. In Guiyang, there are more than 170 medicinal plants, of which, the bark of eucommia and the tuber of elevated gastrodia are the best known ones. Many enterprises in Guiyang, making good use of the local abundant medicinal plants, have developed some medicines with good effects such as the ¡°Peditines Abated¡±, ¡°Junchunle¡± (for vitalization) and ¡°Pat Medicine Box¡± produced by Guizhou Magic Pharmacertical Co., Ltd; the ¡°Beauty Waistband¡± by Guizhou Sanshui Technical Development Co., Ltd; ¡°Laolaifu¡± (long life SOD) by Guizhou Longfa Health Protection Pharmaceutical Factory and ¡°Risu¡¯an¡± by Guizhou Hanfang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The industry of biological engineering with the medicine industry as the main part is to take a dominant place in 21st century in Guiyang. 7£©[Tea] Of the various kinds of tea in Guizhou with unique flavor
and high quality, Duyun Maojian, Zunyi Maofeng and Guiyang Yang¡¯ai Maofeng
are the most common ones. The suburbs of Guiyang are one of the producing
areas for excellent tea. 8£©[Cili] 9£©[Chilies] Both the¡°flat dried chili¡± produced in Baiyuntown
of Guiyang with thin and long |
[The
Batik Articles] The batik articles of Guizhou are widely noted and
liked for their infinite artistic charm, which can be seen at nearly
every famous scenic spot all over the country, even in some countries
and regions in Asia, Africa and America.The Guiyang artists of arts
and crafts combine traditional batik skills with various modern painting
techniques to create artistic works----batik decorative paintings and
handicrafts full of intense national flavor and welcomed by domestic
and foreign tourists. In Guiyang, there is a collection of batik articles
of various national minorities within the province. Here, you can buy
genuine batik articles.
and
the minority features.
The
tea produced by Yang¡¯ai Tea Plantation has once been rated as the famous
tea of the country. Zhaosi tea, produced in Zhaosi village, Qiantao
Town at the suburb of Guiyang, has a long history of cultivation and
enjoys a good reputation. It is said that during the years of Kangxi
in the Qing Dynasty (1662-1722), Mr. Zhou Yuhuang, a member of the Imperial
Academy and a successful candidate in the highest imperial examination
from Guizhou, brought Zhaosi tea and paid tribute to the emperor. Hence
spread the story of ¡°savoring Zhaosi tea brought by the reverend Mr.
Zhao, the air was heavy with the tea aroma inside and outside the imperial
place¡±. Zhaosi tea is a kind of green tea cured and processed into neat
and well-proportioned shapes with dark color. The tea water looks yellow-green
and tastes refreshing.
As
one of the wild local fruit growing in Guizhou mountains, Cili (thorn
pear) is very nutritious with several kinds of vitamin, amino acids,
inorganic salts and trace elements. For its especially rich vitamin
C, Cili is entitled the ¡°king of vitamin C¡±. Scientific research proves
that Cili can protect people from cancer and it has a good effect in
treating lead poisoning, heart and blood vessel diseases, entero-gastritis,
anemia etc. The exploitation of series products of Cili is under way.
shape
bright red color, good smell and pungent taste, and the Dangwu chili
produced in Huaxi enjoy a good reputation. In Guiyang, the food processing
with chili as the main raw material is developing into industrialization.
Some products such as ¡°Laoganma¡±, ¡°Fenglazi¡± and ¡°Lajiaowang¡± have become
famous brand products, which are sold toJapan and Southeast Asia.