For the elderly
What to wear on your head
1 . Sheng Xifu's Sheepskin Advance Hat 260 RMB/top
Sheng Xifu, a 100-year old store, started out with handmade leather hats and caps, and has a wide variety of hats, but the most classic and easy to carry one is this sheepskin advance hat, which is a modest middle-aged and old-aged model in all black with a soft texture. In other places, you are afraid of being pitched, in Shengxifu despite the peace of mind. In fact, even if the elderly do not have a hobby of wearing hats, spend 76 yuan to buy a top Sheng Xifu hand-woven straw hat is also a good value and practical souvenirs.
Where to find it: Sheng Xifu, 196 Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District (6525 4752)
What to wear
2 . Ruifuxiang's robes and coats RMB 480-2500/piece
They say you have to go to Ruifuxiang for this customized cheongsam gown, but really, rather than wait for 15 days of work, you should buy a ready-made Chinese coat there for the old man of the house. From 2,500 yuan have exquisite plate buckle embroidered dragon Xiang Yunyao hand-embroidered blouse, to weekdays can be casually worn azure cotton and linen Chinese modified coat 480 yuan / piece, white cloth cuffs so narrowly rolled, look comfortable.
Where to find it: Rui Fu Xiang, 190 Wangfujing Street (6523 2807)
Footwear
3 . Neiliansheng's cloth shoes 160 yuan-700 yuan/pair
Where to find it: Neiliansheng, No. 34, Dajiejie Street, Qianmen
Taken in mouth
4 . Tongrentang's tonics
From the Beijing-made Niu Huang Antidote Tablets (22 yuan/box), one of Tongrentang's 10 most famous medicines, to tonics that can cost as much as 10,000 yuan, Tongrentang's pearl powder, worth 238 yuan/box, and similarly priced tonics are among the more popular gifts.
Where to find it: Beijing Tongrentang Wangfujing Pharmacy, 255 Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District , first floor of the department store (8511 5191), other branches please call for information
Cup of Lipin's
5 . Old Beijing Flower Tea
Old Beijingers loved jasmine tea, and it is said that because of the general quality of the hard, astringent, salty and bitter water in Beijing, the capital's tea houses have been blended with floral teas to bring a floral flavor with the aroma of tea. Come to Beijing, in addition to drinking a bowl of tea in the teahouse, do not forget to bring bags of authentic Beijing flower tea back to the elderly **** enjoy. Recommended Wu Yutai Old Beijing Tea Bucket Gift Set (2 buckets, containing flower tea, 98 yuan), bucket painted with old Beijing style painting, containing 400 grams of flower tea worth 100 yuan / 500g.
Where to find it: Wu Yutai Beixinqiao General Store, No. 44 Dongsi North Street, Dongcheng District (6404 1928)
Hung in the house
6 . Fortune and Longevity Lacquer Plate Chinese Knot 458 RMB/piece
Chinese knot is the most popular national craft, full of streets, but still want to recommend this sizeable Fortune and Longevity Lacquer Plate handmade Chinese knot hanging ornaments, exquisite workmanship, with the old Beijing court style, if your family old man coincides with the birthday, it is a more than appropriate gift.
Bring to the children
Let the children see the old Beijing Barbie and Transformers!
Old Beijing, gadgets
7 . Rabbit
In the past, Rabbit was a gadget that almost every Beijing kid had in their hands, and the quirky old rabbit was a Teletubbies and Transformers-level icon back in the day. It's said that the smaller the thing, the harder it is to make, so we recommend a portable one, a tiny rabbit in a glass cover, for about 85 yuan each.
Where to find it: One Point Light, 80 Nanluoguxiang (136 8111 0336)
8. Hairy monkeys
The endangered old Beijing specialty "hairy monkeys" were born in a pharmacy, and the raw materials for making them are all traditional Chinese medicines, with the limbs made from the shedding of cicadas, and the body from the Chinese medicine Xinyi, also known as Yuyi. Its limbs are made of cicada molt, and its body is another Chinese medicine, Xinyi, which is the flower of the magnolia flower that forms in the fall. This little thing is more flexible and humorous than Bunny, and can be made into any life scene, such as a hairy monkey selling steamed buns or a hairy monkey sweeping the floor, for 120 yuan per piece.
Where to find it: Beijing Xinhua Bookstore Gulou Store
New Beijing, New Ideas
9. Quadrangle Puzzles 40 yuan/piece
Puzzles made with graphics of old Beijing's quadrangles are a good gift for older children, but the downside is that the quadrangles aren't exactly small enough to be portable.
Where to find it: Beijing Xinhua Bookstore Gulou store
10 . Fuwa spherical puzzle 290 yuan/set
Buying a Fuwa for your child seems to have become the must-do thing of the year, and it's worth mentioning that, compared with the somewhat silly Fuwa plush toys and the somewhat expensive Fuwa handicrafts, the spherical puzzles featuring the five Fuwa are both toys for children and handicrafts that can be displayed. 3 inches, 60 pieces, 290 yuan/set.
Where to find it: Olympic licensed merchandise retailer Oriental Xintiandi, west gate of Oriental Xintiandi Mall, 200 Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District (8518 6004)
Old Beijing childhood on your feet
11 . Beijing Style Cloth Tiger Shoes RMB 48/pair
The little tiger cloth shoes are an object that almost every child in old Beijing has owned at one time or another. Though there are plenty of them for sale from Panjiayuan thrift markets to small hutong stores, we recommend the children's thousand-soled brocade tiger cloth shoes from Neiliansheng (RMB 48/pair).
Where to find it: Neiliansheng, No. 34 Dazhalan Street, Qianmen, Beijing's "guiding light" for young people
12 . Xingmu Water Pipe Lamps RMB 48-120/pc
Xingmu handmade lamps have long been one of the specialties of the new Beijing, and many people send friends all the way back to bring them back to the city, and this time there's one more Xingmu lamp to add to the list. If you have a long way to travel, we recommend the lighter knife, fork and spoon modeling series, "Happy Birthday" 48 yuan/pc; but in fact, the most distinctive may be a bit of post-industrial era black humor of the plumbing series modeling lamps, "guide" 48 yuan/pc, "Xingmu monster" 48 yuan/pc, "Xingmu monster" 48 yuan/pc, "Xingmu monster" 48 yuan/pc, "Xingmu monster" 48 yuan/pc. The "Xing Mu Monster" is 120 RMB/pc. The downside is that they're not big, but they're pretty heavy.
Where to find it: Xing Mu store, 35 Nanluoguxiang (8401 1219)
The cheapest old Beijing handicrafts
13 . Old Beijing Paper Cutting RMB 1-100 per sheet
All the paper cuttings in this inexpensive old Beijing paper-cutting store in the alley are hand-carved by the owner's grandfather, exuding Beijing's distinctive simplicity and sophistication, and have more vitality than their reserved counterparts in the Hundred Crafts Workshops and Crafts Mansions. As a formal gift, we recommend the large old Beijing street scene paper cutouts hanging on the wall (about 100 yuan each) and the 1 yuan paper cutout series, which is said to be the "world's lowest priced".
Where to find it: Old Beijing Paper Cut Shop, 110 Nanluoguxiang
Touchable memories of old Beijing
14 . Old Beijing Mudman Color Plastic 10-100RMB
Mudman Zhang dolls have been highly respected by young people abroad in recent years. Compared with modern cartoon dolls with exaggerated shapes, the old Beijing Mudman Color Plastic nostalgia carries the naturalness of returning to the basics.
Where to find it: Mudman Zhang, B1/F, New Dong'an Market, No. 138 Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District
15. Old Beijing architectural model series 140-220 yuan/pc
Whether it is the "door" and "four courtyards" in Beijing. "Courtyard" series model, or the old Beijing daily life scene model, are very popular souvenirs in recent years, the texture of gelatin, the size of a palm. Recommended life scene series, such as frying doughnuts in the hutongs, children putting flowers under the wall, etc., lifelike, among all the souvenirs, is the only one to make the daily life of the old Beijing is not only visible, but also touch the knickknacks. Compared to the average price of about 200 yuan in the Gongmei Building, we recommend similar items that can be downed for more than 100 yuan along Nanluoguxiang and Houhai.
Where to find it: A Little Light, 80 Nanluoguxiang, Beijing (136 8111 0336)
Beijing time on a small piece of paper
16 . The "Demolition" series of photographic postcards is about 15 yuan
A southern comrade named Fang Han is obsessed with the old Beijing hutongs, and has taken more than 3,000 photographs of Beijing's hutongs that are facing demolition and relocation, and made books (5-15 yuan), bookmarks, and other books on the theme of "Demolition". The book (5-15 yuan), bookmarks, postcards series on the theme of "demolition". It is recommended that young literary people buy a set of these books as a souvenir.
Where to find it: ARUYO, 44 Nanluoguxiang (6400 3383)
17 . Old Beijing Pattern Poker and Postcard, Photo Series 15-85 RMB/box
If there's one old Beijing-inspired paper product you have to tuck in your souvenir luggage, we recommend the inexpensive Old Beijing Hutongs and Courtyards Photo Poker (15 RMB/box), which can be bargained down to around 8 RMB at the Panjiayuan Thrift Market.
There's also an interesting selection of scrolling Beijing-style photos in paper tubes (85 yuan/box).
Where to find it: Panjiayuan Yard Market, No. 18 Huawei Lane, Panjiayuan Road, Chaoyang District
Bringing Beijing home
18. Band-Aid Beijing T-shirts: 98 yuan
Subway tickets, old house numbers and "cab 1.2 yuan per kilometer" price tags are all very popular with contemporary Beijingers. The price tags, which are very familiar to contemporary Beijingers, are the new symbols of Beijing, no less than the treasures of our ancestors, and we recommend the cab 1.2 kilometers and the Kung Pao Chicken T-shirt (98 RMB/piece).
Where to find it: Band-Aid 8, 61 Nanluoguxiang
19 . Passenger T-shirts 90-150 RMB/piece
The Passenger T-shirts have always been popular with donkeys, and among these pan-Chinese T-shirts, there are still some that have a distinctly Beijing flavor, such as the face paint and the Great Wall, so if you don't have a Passenger store in your city, you should definitely remember to bring one back with you. After all, you were once a visitor to Beijing.
Where to find it: "Passenger" cultural store, south of the Central Academy of Drama, No. 108 Nanluoguxiang, Dongzhimen
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20 .GRIFTED Peking Opera styling Qingyi hand puppets 199 yuan / a
GRIFTED styling a bit funny Qingyi hand puppets are placed in the store door there, and to go in, you will see a small theater, Qingyi and Hua face The two are very much in sync with each other. It's perfect for the childish comrade, one hand for the blue coat, one hand for the flower face, play by yourself, and the journey home will not be boring at all.
GRIFTED, 32 Nanluoguxiang
For the middle-aged
Gifts for the elderly should be practical, and the ones you wear on your body and use in your hands are the most pleasing to them.
For moms
21 . Beijing embroidered silk scarf 598 yuan / article
A silk handmade Beijing embroidered scarf is the best Beijing souvenir for middle-aged women. Layered, just like the Jiangnan embroidery style is very different from the Beijing embroidery patterns less gentle charm of Suzhou and Hangzhou, but more dignified and elegant Beijing court atmosphere. Choose a delicate work of Beijing embroidery silk scarf is not easy, some of the craft building in the Beijing embroidery dress rough and expensive, less people ask for, compared with its decline, Jin Xin Beijing embroidery store, although the price is also not expensive, but workmanship is guaranteed. Recommended double butterfly figure Chinese red and green silk scarf 598 yuan / article. Of course, the store also has similar shawls, average price of more than 1,000 yuan / piece.
Jinxin Beijing Embroidery, No. 1 Fuxiang Hutong, Nanluoguxiang
22 . Customized handmade Beijing-embroidered cheongsams Specifics
Instead of waiting ten days and half a month for a customized Ruifuxiang cheongsam, Jinxin Beijing Embroidery Shop usually delivers in a week, and the purely handmade Beijing-embroidered patterns can be specified by the guests themselves. You can find it in: Jinxin Beijing Embroidery, No. 1 Fuxiang Hutong, Nanluoguxiang
23 . Xing Lanxiang's Material Ware RMB 50-200 per piece
Material ware, which relies on the craftsman's experience and skill to improvise in the flame of a blowtorch, is more expensive and less portable than the more expensive and less portable Beijing embroidery. Compared with the expensive and inconvenient Jingjing, jade carving and lacquer ware, the Old Beijing Material Ware crafts are popular among female tourists for their compactness and affordability. Old Beijing material ware master Xing Lanxiang in the Hundred Workshop workshop opened to the Gongmei Building, 80 yuan or more are handmade by the criminal master of the material ware small pieces, a hundred wealth poly to come, rich and noble flower blossom of these good luck charm is particularly popular with young and middle-aged women.
Where to find it: Beijing Hundred Workshops, second-floor booths, Beijing Gongmei Building; No. 12 B, Guangming Road, Chongwen District, Beijing
For dads
24 . Beijing Tooth Sculptures
Of all the Beijing artworks, Beijing tooth sculptures made from ivory are the most questionable. Most of the serious tooth carvings are expensive. It is recommended to buy Beijing tooth carving artifacts made from tooth powder and bone powder, which are more moderately priced at a few hundred dollars, and of course there are tooth carvings made from bone, which sell for tens of thousands of dollars.
Tooth carving counter, Beijing Wangfujing Gongmei Building, third floor
25. Wang Mazi scissors
Wang Mazi scissors is one of the must-do things to add to dad's toolbox, recommended Wang Mazi No. 1, dragon and phoenix scissors 28 yuan per piece, cheap and practical.
Wang Ma Zi Scissors, 88 Coal Market Street, 138 Wangfujing Street
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