Urumqi Shopping

Urumchi most heavy mart lie in the cross area of liberate way and democratic way, Zhongshan way crossing. Various types of centralized and big and small markets here, the goods are a feast for the eyes, the pedestrian comes and goes have a tidal wave of. Have business street of national characters most, is bridge area, this area is not only the Uygur nationality inhabited region of citizen, also is the famous big bus of Xinjiang pitches (the meanings of " country fair " , " market "). General visitors come to Urumchi, will go to two dishes of bridges to stroll, first have a taste of the national conditions and customs of Xinjiang, second taste the local delicacies here, come to choose some local products.
Here's the shop, restaurant and mosque that the businessman of the Uygur nationality opened, there are various national local products to sell on both sides of the street, mainly the Uygur nationality spends caps, embroider by hand, silk fabric, Great Britain lucky sand, knife then on the gold and silver ornament, jade carving products, carpet, wood carving, sheep horn whip, Xibe pipe, leather boots, end, all hand-made, can buy some as regarding as memory. Local and special products have pilose antler, donkey-hide gelatin, deer blood wine, Iraq plow Tequ, wine,etc.. The most attractive, various fresh fruit, until grape, hami melon, pomegranate, almond, fig, flat peach, Iraq plow apples and various fruit be. The ones that are especially worth recommending include juice of the graceful grass then, this grows grass the juice has efficiency of making the eyebrow darken, natural cosmetics. The girl of the Uygur nationality has used its babbler since childhood, therefore eyebrows of the girls of Uygurs are all black and dense. Visitors can buy such natural cosmetics in regions of two bridges.

The special product in Urumqi

>>Xinjiang pottery
The manufacturing history of the soil pottery in Xinjiang is very long, have production as far back as the Neolithic Age, develop to produce the ancient painted pottery in the Jin and Han Dynasty, have old and unique national styles. Xinjiang soil pottery divide glazed pottery into and have two kinds of white pottery of glaze. Large-scale Kui (urn) is more for white pottery, bottom sharp, put wooden shelf or half a section bury under ground just, water kept holding is limpid and nice and cool. The glazed pottery is various in style, bowl, dish, bottle, pot, regard pottery pot of the lucky sand in Great Britain as a special skill particularly, but the body fretwork of the pot is water-tight, sigh in order to cherish.

>>Beautiful jade of HeTian
The malachite, carpet and silk in Hetian, the reputation is larger, called " three valuable of Hetian " by people. The jade of Hetian is best in quality, there is a lot of kind, there are white jade, topaz, carbuncle, sapphire, purple jade, jasper, black jade,etc.. Among them there is a kind of jade, sparkling and crystal-clear and bright and clean, the texture is fine and smooth, the color is called the white jade like the suet, is a top grade design. Malachite hide on Kunlun high mountain of mountain among the beautiful mountain, should exploit malachite to be extremely difficulting deeply. People pick up the malachite which wash flood malachite that get off in river dam often, if you are lucky, can really still find the valuable malachite !

>>Xinjiang carpet
Xinjiang carpet or hanging the wall in the hall, or the exhibition is spread in the indoor corridor, the gloss is smooth the blanket, the blanket board is sturdy and soft, elegant appearance, the tone is fresh and beautiful, the ideal family, advanced articles of the hotel furnishings. The carpet texture in Xinjiang is superior, except that adopt and tie, weave by hand, weave workers exquisitely and closely the picture, it is fine in the wool texture that is used for weaving the blanket to be still capable. Xinjiang carpet raw materials adopt famous half shag hair of Hetian sheep's wool. This kind of wool is thick instead of glueing, tough and tensile and is imbued with elasticity, able to bear drawing, being able to bear pressing, advantage with good, great in intensity gloss .
The picture of Xinjiang carpet has a distinct national characteristic and strong local colour with filling in colors on a sketch even more plainly, its characteristic is mainly: Multi-layer frame, insert the line decorations with various category in the geometric figure, the structure is in neat formation but rhythmic, lively and changeable and is imbued with delight of life. Xinjiang carpet pay close attention to the same kind color or compare color to arrangement, fully reveal the individual characters of different color in comparing with. Xinjiang originally in order to dye dyestuffs of knitting wool colour, make of plant and mineral more natural dyestuffs carpet. Use the chemical reactive dye instead now, color is more bright-colored, it is firm to colour, not taken off by the fire.

>>The knife of Yingjisha
The producing area of knife of Yingjisha is Yingji county, therefore gain the name, it is the ethnic minority of Xinjiang that specially takes one of the products and traditional famous-brand handicrafts. It not merely handsome in appearance, and one hundred sheetses of body level bright, handle of a knife carve have different pattern of style, have strong national styles and furnished with the exquisite leather sheath, it is easy to hand-carry, have wide use range, is especially suitable for the use in the travel way, have very high reserve value, people of all nationalities in Xinjiang and all kinds of tourists dote on deeply.

>>Colored cap
Each visitor coming to Urumchi is attracted by the colored cap of the full street. Colored cap, link language call that " pieces of bar ", it is Uygur men and women, old and young that like cap that wear, this small flower cap takes the form of four stupefied and dome-shaped, not only practical, but also a kind of handicraft with ornamental aesthetic feeling. On the colored cap, generally embroider the pattern of the national style with black-and-white two colors or colored silk threads.
Colored cap is not only used in daily life, but also the precious gift present relatives and friends and honored guest, nowadays, the small flower cap not only becomes the handicraft with certain popularity, but also the domestic and international markets in great demand, become the important travelling products.

>>The long-staple cotton in Xinjiang
Gain the name because the fiber is longer. Also called the sea island cotton, originate in South America, and then introduce to the southeast offshore islands of North America, so claim. The long-staple cotton in Xinjiang is best in quality, every quality index exceeds the standard of stipulating in the country. Produce particularly well in Turfan, its fiber is soft and long, pure white gloss, elasticity good, new sea cotton detailed degree is more 1000 over meter than general long-staple cotton. Xinjiang long-staple cotton can make big fetus cord fabric, antichemical preventing atom from radiate cloth, other fabrics advanced, and all kinds of pagoda of lines, sewing the line, embroidering in the line, knitting line, etc..

>>Aidelai silk
Silk material which the women of the Uygur nationality like very much. It adopts old pitching on the silk through the decoration method craft, is dyed at the request of pattern, its process is very careful and tedious. The Aidelai silk of Kashi famous for being luxuriant in design, bright-colored Use color contrast to be great, it is strong to compare with. It is daily and jade green, sapphire blue, yellow, blue and green, pink, mauve, tangerine, golden yellow, gaudy green, black, white color; Structural exquisiteness of the pattern, compactness, rigorous, color is strong, transparent, lifelike, hit light and aesthetic feeling of the color after reproducing the nature. Aidelai silk is soft, imbued with elasticity is light and thin and pliable and tough, esthetic and magnificent, Uygur's national culture characteristic with distinctness, win the favor from masses of ethnic minority deeply. Now not only regard the Adelai slike as dress, have many people buy it go back to make as handicraft it into an indoor ornament.