Bai Brocade

Dai Brocade is an ancient traditional textile handicraft popular among the Dai people. Every Dai woman is good at weaving it. It is famous for its exquisite weaving, elegant pattern, bright color, beautiful presentation, durability and strong ethnic styles. Different colors and patterns contain different meanings. For example, a peacock pattern indicates auspiciousness, and an elephant symbolizes a bumper harvest. Bags made of Dai brocade are the necessities of the Dai people as well as tokens between lovers.

Dali Marble Products

The reserves of Dali marble are abundant. There are more than ten kinds of Dali marble products, including relief sculpture, vertical sculpture, hanging screens, fruit containers, ashtrays and decorative marbles among others.

Recommended Shopping Places

Foreigners' Street

Location: in Ancient City of Dali

Description: Along this street lie many teahouses and antique shops.

Open Hours: (for most stores) 9:00am-midnight

South Gate Market

Location: Inside South Gate, Ancient City of Dali

Description: Best buys include bright clothing and embroidered accessories of Yunnan's minority people such as aprons, shoulder bags and embroidered shoes. Headdresses and belts are particularly attractive, with tea, Chinese medicines and dry mushrooms also available.

Open Hours: 8:00am-6:00pm

Butterfly Spring Park Market

Location: Butterfly Spring Park

Description: Bandhnu dresses, art work, bandhnu handicraft articles.

Open Hours: 8:00am-6:00pm

Bandhnu Market

Add: Bai nationality Village, Zhoucheng, Dali

Description: Mainly marble stone handicrafts, bandhnu Bai handicrafts.

Open Hours: 8:00 am-noon

March Street (Avalokitesvara Market)

With a long history of over a thousand years, Avalokitesvara a place of trading. Every year a fair is held from March 15th to 20th, and minority nationalities from seven provinces gather at the grasslands at the foot of Cangshan Mountain, in the west of the city. People dressed in their holiday best go to the market in a continuous stream. Singing, dancing, and horseracing make the fair even more lively. Traditional local products and specialties include the bowl-shaped bricks of tea leaves, cigars, tie-dyed cloth and snow pears. (Photo: baidu.com/google.com)

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