Shopping in Pingyao
Pingyao, the old town with long history has left many ancient buildings, grand city walls as well as varied handcrafts and local products. Along with the Ming-qing street, there are many shops and restaurants that selling kinds of products. The workmanship of the lacquerware is unique with the five processes of wooden-base making, the grey-base process, lacquer application, painting, and inlaying. And on the streets or lanes of Pingyao ancient city, you can see kinds of Tuiguang lacquer of all sizes everywhere, the large sized ones are screens and furniture and the small ones like decoration paintings and pictures, jewelry boxes,etc.
Handmade cloth shoes
When exploring the lanes or streets of Pingyao, you will find ladies sitting in front their home or stores sewing shoes – that’s handmade cloth shoes! These shoes are quite unique with elaborate processing and elegant looking, often embroidered with figures of animals and natural flowers which make the shoes so beautiful! These genuinely hand-made shoes have the advantage of good ventilation and sweat absorption and are comfortable to wear.
Liuhetai Pillow
Liuhe is refers to the peace of the world in Chinese; the Liuhe Pillow is unique and comfortable to use; it is almost cuboid with symmetrical communicating apertures on each side which is good for people’s health.