If you are interested in shopping small things such as hand crafts, paper-cut, good luck knots (made of red ropes), replicas of terracotta warriors, coppery carriages, Tang potteries, ornaments, embroidery crafts and so on, you will be fond of these places and be attracted by them. You can finally find the smell of traditional culture there.

Huajue Xiang (Huajue Alleyway)
Huajue Alleyway is a narrow street beside the Great Mosque (also called Huajue Xiang Great Mosque). It is now as an antique street for finding nice pieces of handicraft, and at a cute price. Of course, shoppers need to exercise your oriental patience and bargain a lot on those articles. Here is one of the bargaining tips from the personal experience of a traveler: “If you ask some price, please, do not give your price back unless you really want to buy it. If the vendors accept your price, you just have to buy it... Stick to your price and bargain...”

Shuyuanmen Gate
Entered the Great South Gate, beside the Small Wild Goose Pagoda, you can find a Chinese traditional archway, that is the entrance of the Shuyuanmen Gate. Boasting a history of 400 years, it is the gateway to Guanzhong Academy, one of the four famous academies in ancient China. So in this street you will mesh in to the ancient Chinese culture ocean totally forgot your real status. Shops established in the ancient style hang various size of writing brushes from above the gate. Many of the owners know a lot about Chinese calligraphy, painting and other cultural things. Some of them are real artists. If you are lucky, you can be allowed to visit their small workshops, which are located behind the shops, to see how they make those crafts. Four treasures of study (writing brush, ink stick, silk paper and ink stone), rubbings of calligraphy and painting from the Forest Stele; Shadows of shadow play (made of donkey skin or bull skin, totally handmade); Xun (the oldest instrument, discovered from Banbo Village), paper cut and so on are full of this street.

Art Ceramics and Lacquer Factory
If you really want to bring some good quality terracotta for souvenir, you should go to this factory, they also have shops outside. It is a factory reproduces Qin terracotta warriors and horses and lacquer ware products. It also has traditional wooden furniture, lacquer wood, rosewood, jade screens and other souvenirs. This factory in the front of Terracotta Warrior Museum is different from other factories with deep cultural taste.

Xi”an Antique Castle
Located at No.2 the Mid Part of Zhuque Road, it is the biggest antique market in Xi”an. Covering an area of 5000 square meters and at the shed construction of reinforcing steel bar, it hosts cultural relics including age-old potteries and porcelains, tri-colored glazed pottery of the Tang Dynasty…

Baxian An
Baxian An means the nunnery for eight immortals in legend. It is a very important Taoism architecture situated in Changle Fang, Dongguan in Xi”an city. This market is an entirely timberwork building divided in to two storey in the structure of archaized cloister. In each week there is “Ghost Market” on Wednesday and Sunday. On those two “Ghost Market” days, lots of peasants (including peasants from inner Shaanxi province and out side province) will come here to trade their antiques.

Farmer Painting Gallery
About 38 kilometers southwest far away to Xi”an city, there is a county named “Hu” gathering all kinds of peasant paintings. The naissance of this art is a miracle for it has been conquered so many people by its unique charm. Those paintings show the sweet farm life style--tranquility, simpleness, and gratification. It is a great local treasury in “hu” county. You can make a good harvest of Chinese paper-cut, mud models and farmer paintings.

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