Travel, is a good way to relieves stress and raises energy, was widely admitted by the people today. With the sustainable and fast development of Chinese economy, China has become more attractive to the foreign people. China tours are more popular than before.
Many of us prefer to buy some gifts to our family so that they can get some idea of the different culture of the different country. As we all know, China is a historical country, there are many amazing scene of natural, and disparate custom that we have never seen in Western countries. So for example, if we travel to Beijing, what gift is the best for our Family?
1.Chinese Painting Mask
Beijing Opera is the quintessence of Chinese culture. And people come to Beijing often have a try to the Beijing Opera. Many of them like the Chinese painting mask because it’s very special if you have never seen it. Every painting mask represents a person in the history. Chinese people always say that you can see the characteristic of the role from painting mask. In my opinion, it’s full of the rich Chinese culture. a set of painting masks is also have the collection value.
2. Calligraphy or Chinese Painting
In the ancient China, people use brush and China ink to write and paint. The roots of Chinese painting can be traced back to paintings on Neolithic pottery six or seven thousand years ago. Since similar tools and lines were used for the earliest painting and writing, painting is said to have the same origin as calligraphy. Thus, Chinese paintings usually integrate poetry or calligraphy with themes that include figures, landscapes, flowers, birds and other animals. Traditional Chinese painting remains a highly valued genre, often on exhibit in China as well as other countries. One of my friends said that: “It’s not colorful but you can get the meaning from the painting only with white and black. It has a magical power to take you to another world.”
3. Paper-cuts
This is my favorite. Paper-cuts is a kind of Chinese traditional arts. Chinese Paper Cuts also called Scissor-cut, it is a kind of folk artwork with rich local flavor popularizing in numerous people. Chinese-Paper-cuts were come out during the period of North and South Dynasty. Colorful paper cut by scissors is often used as decoration and forms various artistic styles because of different purposes, such as for window decoration, basket decoration, present decoration and designs. I often wondered that how the paper-cuts were made, it looks very difficult to make the paper to that shape.
4. Embroidery
According to my friends’ opinion, Chinese embroidery took the fancy of the visitors. Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn.The embroidery is very beautiful, animated. It’s a good suggestion to decorate the wall by embroideries. In China, Su Embroidery, Xiang Embroidery, Yue Embroidery, Shu Embroidery is the most famous. Each kind of embroidery has it’s own style.
So, that’s it. Have you know more about the Chinese gift? Certainly there are many other interesting things in China. These four is the gifts that I think lots of people will be interested in. Hoping that can give you some help in your China tour. And by the way, Have a nice trip in China!
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