Chinese Cross-Cultural Experience

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Pearl Farm

The Pearl shop in Beijing has been exhibiting a rich variety of home produced sea pearls and fresh water pearls due to both the historical reason and the modern market. Among them, the king and queen size pearls are really of precious quality. The type of Pearl Powder on sale was first contributed to Qing Dynasty Royal Family as a cosmetic and they can be found here, too.

 

Jade Factory

China is rich in its jade resource; therefore, jade and its cultural impact to Chinese people, and later on to other Asians, has been historical. Tourists will get a chance to visit the Beijing Jade Carving Factory, which so far is the biggest jade collection in China. Tourists will find hundreds of thousands of precious jade, jadeites and handmade jade carvings, the raw material of which comes from the Northeast and Silk road area of China.

 

Silk Workshop

Textiles have a very long history in China, as garments, currency, tax goods, and commodities. Chinese domesticated silkworms no later than 3,000 BCE, but archaeologists have discovered cocoons at Neolithic sites. The ancient Chinese also wove ramie and hemp, which were worn by the common people. Nowadays, silk production is still one of the important parts of daily life. In the Silk Museum, you will have a chance to see the complete process of making silk from silkworms. You even can see the old silk weaving machines, hand-making silk quilts.