Sichuan tea: Mengding tea is famous, such as Emei tip in Emei Mountain, Qingcheng tea in Qingcheng Mountain and Miaoxi tea in Ya 'an.
Shu Brocade and Shu Embroidery: In the Western Han Dynasty, Shu Brocade was already sold in the Central Plains, and the patterns were very local. The raw materials of Shu embroidery are soft satin and colored silk, and the techniques are also unique. There are 100 kinds of stitches, and embroidery has both high-grade appreciation and ordinary daily necessities.
Bamboo products: There are many bamboos in Sichuan, and so are bamboo products. Jiang 'an's bamboo spring crafts, Chengdu and Nanchong's bamboo curtains, Chongzhou's various bamboo weaves, Zigong's unique bamboo Gong Fan and Chengdu's porcelain bamboo weaves are all worth buying.
Chinese herbal medicines: Sichuan's famous Chinese herbal medicines include Fritillaria, Chuanxiong, Gastrodia elata, Eucommia ulmoides and so on.
Yi lacquerware: Lacquerware in Liangshan is very distinctive, mainly painted with lines that Yi people like, yellow and black. Finished products include wine glasses, flagons and trays.
Other local products: Emei Xuemo taro, Yibin sprouts, Tianfu peanuts, Pixian watercress, Langzhong Baoning vinegar, Changning Dictyophora, Jiajiang bean curd, Fushun hot sauce, etc.
Among many Chengdu specialties, Shu Brocade, one of the "Four Famous Brocade in China" and Shu Embroidery, one of the "Four Famous Embroideries in China", are elegant and easy to carry, making them the best choice for your friends and relatives. Porcelain embryo bamboo weaving is another feature of Chengdu, and vases, coffee sets, flower sets, rice bowls, etc. woven with it will definitely make people fondle it. The silver silk handicrafts in Chengdu are very beautiful; Qingcheng silk carpet is exquisite in workmanship, and you can choose tapestries and carpets. In addition, there are famous Quanxing Daqu and Pixian Douban. Take some home to share with your family.
Porcelain fetal bamboo weaving
Porcelain embryo bamboo weaving, a bamboo weaving handicraft produced in Chengdu, also known as "bamboo silk buckle porcelain", is a unique variety of bamboo and cotton handicrafts. It takes a porcelain dish as the tire, and the bamboo thread is as thin as hair, and the bamboo thread is as soft as silk, which is woven according to the tire.
The selection of bamboo filaments for porcelain embryo bamboo weaving is very strict. Among more than 100 kinds of bamboos produced in Sichuan, only Dendrocalamus affinis grown in Dengmei mountain area was selected, and it must be a "biennial" robust bamboo with a pitch of more than 66 cm and no scratches. 50 kilograms of Cizhu was repeatedly selected and processed, and finally only 400 grams of finished bamboo filaments were obtained. The warp is as thin as silk, the weft is as tight as hair, the thickness is even, the elasticity is moderate, and the technical requirements for making raw materials are extremely high.
The weaving process of porcelain embryo bamboo weaving crafts requires high requirements and is difficult. All processes, from lifting the bottom, turning the bottom, turning the top and sewing, require no bamboo wire joints, no technical errors such as kinking and overlapping, and always keep the proportion of latitude and longitude lines symmetrical, giving people a sense of unity. In terms of pattern design, the porcelain embryo bamboo weaving has developed from simple lace commonly known as "wall folding" to complex and changeable geometric patterns, jacquard patterns, hidden flower patterns, landscape flowers and birds and other natural patterns. In weaving techniques, in addition to maintaining the traditional fine weaving, bamboo weavers have repeatedly pondered and created extra fine weaving, sparse weaving, dense combination, yuanhua and so on. Arc-shaped lock flower, as well as more than ten new technologies such as strip flower, plaid flower, chain flower, spray flower, special flower, flower piercing, decal and flower leakage. In addition to traditional vases, coffee sets, tea sets, rice bowls and other products, there are also jewelry boxes, stationery, pen containers, bamboo pressure plates and so on.
Pi County Douban
Douban is one of the main auxiliary materials for cooking authentic Sichuan cuisine, so both urban and rural residents in Sichuan have their own habit of making Douban, and Douban workshops and Douban factories can be seen everywhere. But there are only two most famous brands of Sichuan Douban: Pixian Douban and Ziyang Linjiang Temple Douban. Pixian watercress has a production history of 100 years, which is characterized by spicy, crisp and red color. Used for cooking, it is known as the "soul of Sichuan cuisine".
Especially "Chongqing Pork", "Bean Fish" and "Mapo Tofu" cooked with Pixian watercress are recognized as representative works of Sichuan cuisine.
paint
Sichuan is rich in raw lacquer and cinnabar, two main raw materials for making lacquerware, so Sichuan is one of the main producing areas of lacquerware in China.
There are many kinds of lacquerware produced in Chengdu, including wooden tires, hemp paper tires and plastic tires. Its shape is elegant and exquisite, and the paint surface is transparent as water and bright as a mirror. Chengdu lacquerware also has new techniques such as hidden flower, hidden flower and tracing flower, which makes lacquerware products more colorful. "Carving and coloring" is the main technological feature of Chengdu lacquerware. Artists use knives as pens to carve various patterns on tire soles, fill them with colored pigments and polish them repeatedly.