Datong Shopping

Datong Shopping

There are many things to see and buy when you come to the Da Xi Jie, Si Pai Lou and Xiao Nan Jie of Datong, there are malls, department stores, market place & special stores that travelers can find the specialties.

Things to buy in Datong

Wool Carpet
Datong wool carpet could be dated back to Spring and Autumn period and has developed sophisticated in the past years. Datong has own carpet factories and the wool products are of exquisitely designed in various colors of red, brown, purple and green etc.

Cupreous Chaffy Dish
Cupreous Chaffy Dish includes batholiths, pan body, seat, cover, fire canister, as well as small cover. Some traditional pictures such as "dragon and phoenix playing" "pie stepping on plum" "Eight immortals crossing the sea" "flower, bird, mountain, water" etc are caved separately on the batholiths, body, cover and small cover. The Cupreous Chaffy Dish is highly granulated for its traditional character.

Colored Glazed
The typical example of colored glazed in Datong is the Nine-Dragon Wall which shows the high tech and craft work of the glaze items.

Datong Egg Carving
Datong Egg Carving is done on thin and fragile hollow eggs and decorated beautifully with Chinese paintings or other elements.