Fenghuang Ancient Town Shopping
As a places inhabited by lot of ethnic group people, there are kinds of local products with ethnic characters to buy in Fenghuang ancient town.Visitors who like local products can buy some crafts, such as silver ornaments, batik bags and clothes. There also some popular food to buy such as ginger candy, kiwi fruit and preserved meat.
Silver Accessories
The Miao people , one of the largest ethnic minorities in southwest China are mainly distributed across Yunnan, Guizhou, Hainan and West Hunan province, etc. People belonging to the same branch usually wear the same silver accessories as a symbol of a certain clan. Asa totem , the silver accessories unite descendants of the same ancestor closely together, as an mark of marriage, they are suppoed to bring a sound order to love and marriages, as a witchcraft artifact, they are expected to offer psychological sense of safety to people's daily life. Therefore, the Miao silver accessories serve as much more than a simple decoration but a cultural carrier rooted in the life of Miao community . The bigger, heavier and more they are , the more beautiful they become.
Blue Clothe Dye Printing Sills
Xiangxi remains the only area in Hunan province where the folk skill of blue clothe dyeing and printing is well preserved. Here,craftman who have inherited the original materials and free concepts still carry their antique techniques, including tie dyeing, batik and blue cloth dyeing and finishing.
Tie Dyeing Process
It is kind of skill for printing and dyeing cloth. Before printing , tie up the part of cloth on which there is no flowers or other pattern. Much egetable dyes such as madder, indigo and gardenia are used to dye silk.
Batik
Batik is a traditional Chinese folk art which combines painting and dyeing. The batik pictures are the combination of the encaustic and dyeing. To make a batik, you should impress a design with wax, such as genometic drawing, flowers, birds, fish so on. Then Put hem into dye vat mainly in blue . After that put the clothes into the pot of pan so that boiled degumming. As reserving agent, wax crevasse crack naturally and special lines appear. These make clothe look like the most attractive.
