Lhasa Shopping

Lhasa is the capital of Tibetan municipal Region. There are massive handicrafts with the Tibetan national character and style, such as fine Tang Ka, the magnificent Tibetan's knife, plain decorations, the peculiar mask, the beautiful rug and so on. They are all worthy bringing into the line with your collection.The nation market locating at the Lhasa Bakuo street, is the best place you obtain the low-price and high-quality national handicrafts.In the Bakuo street area, businessman are greatly the parish Tibetan. Therefore the commodities may be the plainest. Because process is not specially fine, the price is comparably low, including the agate decorations, the copperware (includes religious decorations, Buddhist musical istrument, jade carving and partial silver facture, image of Buddha and hide meal tableware).
Besides Bakuo street, also may buy in a Lhasa bigger market obtains these traveling souvenirs, certainly also has the Tibetan incense, hides the medicine, in particular the ganoderma lucidum, the safflower, the Dong Chon Xia Cao, the Tibetan antelope horn, the snow lotus flower and so on, also needs to bring some home.

The special product in Lhasa

>>Tang card
The spool is drawn promptly in the card in Tang. This kind of picture is usually painted on the silk or cloth and silk, because describe more religious contents, in addition, easy to carry, so is quite popular in the Tibetan area. The Tang card is one of the main forms of local graphics art of Tibet. The Tang card displays the subject matter extensively, also include a large number of history and folk custom content besides religion, so Tang card is call, understand Tibet "encyclopaedia". Tibet Tang card draw with color one spool that satin mount, have distinct national characteristic, strong religious unique artistic style of color, have been always regarded as the jewellery by people. The Tang card when people see now, called that the cloth picture too, she rose after Buddhism spread into Tibet, following enlarging and spreading in Tibet plateau of Buddhism, the outside culture and arts permeate, inject the fresh blood into Tang card art. On one hand she develops and upgrades original artistic characteristics, on the other hand draw the artistic quintessence of Chinese ground or India, Nepal and other places, as time passes, become the school of art original in style. The Tang card, use tight burlap or coarse cloth as the bottom cloth. The comparatively precious one uses silk as the bottom cloth. Its making course does a wooden bezel at first, cloth here and there sew at four detailed stick, put on with rope detailed stick one prop up at the wooden bezel bottom; And talc powder concoct and batter that succeed paint on the bottom cloth evenly with a animal glue, purpose to make bottom to be cloth even to have hole is bright and clean and bright, scribble, wipe with a thin quality of tools bottom batter of cloth off finish, while being smooth, shave evenly, after the bottom cloth is dry, use the charcoal stripe, draw the outline of the picture, generally it is first in after it is outside, the middle attach to whom picture main paint all around now after drawing by some, colour finally. Tang card most common ruler is piece scroll shape, base leave loud blank, the size is generally 75 centimetres long, 50 centimetres wide; Besides scroll shape Tang card, can also see Tang of banner shape card, the Tang Carlos 1.1 meters long, it is about 3.5 meters wide. According to make Tang material that card spend, can divide two big class into by card Tang, one call "country Tang" with silk Tang card that silk make, another kind of shout "stop in Tang" with Tang card that pigment draw. Material based on different silk silks, "country Tang" the following five too: Tapestry portrait "country Tang": This is one kind to embroider the Tang made and become card by hand with all kinds of silk threads. "country Tang" the silk: Produce the Tang card cut the cloth of different form a variety of silk silk, then piece together into a variety of cloth of the picture and sew up with the injection. The silk is stuck "to the country Tang": The Tang card and "country Tang" similar the silk, cut various colored cloth with sticky on canvas becoming picturing only (look like cloth pictures on the wall a translator for today very much). Hands are woven "to the country Tang": Card of Tang when wove with silk thread of one kind. Edition is printed "to the country Tang": The Tang card use with Chinese ink or cinnabar as pigment sheetwise print at the silk silk directly, sheetwise use plank is accidental to spend copperplates or iron plate mainly. "country Tang" hit yardstick naming "country firm" most heavy, because is too heavy, can't hang out storing it objectively at will either, in fact just use this kind of Tang card in some special occasions, until "country firm" Datang block, hang, at outer wall of temple, hang in specially for hang "country firm" on the Tang jail that Carlos build, one of Potala Palace most heavy "country firm" of Tang Carlos. About 55.8 meters high, 46.81 meters wide, it was after the famous Dalailama's nirvana of five generations that this Tang blocked, formed and arranged in charge of Sangjiejiacuo, what the Tang card is described is Amitabha. Because technique of painting varied, the Tang card it has to be much kind too, people according to draw background come to distinguish stop kind of Tang with different color of pigment mainly. Color Tang: One draw Tang Carlos of background with a variety of pigment. Gold Tang: One draw Tang Carlos of background with getting golden yellow pigment. Bright red Tang: One with getting bright red pigment draw Tang Carlos of background. Black Tang: Draw the Tang of the background card only with black. Edition tallies and stops in Tang: It and can't make preparation method by watermark country Tang with, only difference, country print in canvas where silk make at the silk to Tang, stop Tang pieces of picture on silk canvas that silk make. The biggest end Tang is 3 meters long, 2 meters wide; And minimum end Tang was only 30 centimetres long, it was 20 centimetres wide.

>>Jewellery
The Tibet jewellery has pearl, agate, various jade articles and gold and silver products, etc., generally regard simple and unsophisticated as good. The fleamarket or some travel shops are available in wide street eight of Lhasa. Ones that wear neck, not at the wrist what has been mixed, hang ears and whom waist insert fill with everything, some ornaments are bigger, there is some ambience to but hang in the room or public place .

>>The Tibet blanket
It is another light spot in all kinds of national handicrafts in Tibet to hide the blanket. It is one of the famous blankets of the three worlds to Tibet blanket, with its superior making, the pattern with characteristic of strong nationality, religious, the ones that pay attention to aesthetics and match are coloured well-knownly. Hide the blanket to divide into all kinds of size, multi-form style, as noble plain type, dense luxurious type, have carpet type, have tapestry type, all to may deserve to be called artistic masterpieces. The carpet weaving mill of Lhasa produces the authoritative enterprises which hides the blanket, it is besides keeping the already existing hand made, introduce computer, etc. Hi-Tech apparatus go on, make maps process of designing etc. also. Tibet blanket find a good sale in America and Europe, on sale throughout hinterland, come item that must be purchased of Tibet one of undoubtedly.

>>Red red-spotted stonecrop of Tibetan medicine
Red red-spotted stonecrop means red red-spotted stonecrop of red-spotted stonecrop department belongs to the plant, there are more than 90 kinds in the world, distributed in Northern Hemisphere high and cold area much, great majority grow, have an elevation of 3500-5000 meters about high mountain shed the stone or bush from the forest .
Red red-spotted stonecrop is mainly used as medicine with root and rhizome, the whole one can also be used as medicine. Already there is history for a long time in the use of red red-spotted stonecrop in our country, as far back as Qing Dynasty, someone use as, nourish strong medicine it in red red-spotted stonecrop producing region, come, dispel fatigue, resist cold. According to record KangXi in put down Alabudan split of the traitor, the long time goes on an expedition in arid the Northwest of our country, because ginseng "makes heat", unsuitable to use, dispel troops to be tired fully with red red-spotted stonecrop. Tibet folk commonly used red red-spotted stonecrop come, treat, cough blood, spit blood, pneumonia cough and woman leucorrhea, etc. disease.

>>Eastern supernatural dog -- Tibet Ao
Tibet Ao is rank the first of fierce dog of the world, about 2,000 year spread get Greece, reach Rome kingdom, pressgang clansman pass to various countries of Europe then by eastern Europe, still keeping the hereditary gene which Tibet Ao in the body of the famous dog of the world so far. In Lhasa, and even whole Tibetan area most noble dog should belong to Tibet Ao, Tibet ask it "open more", "much" is fastens the meaning lived in. The dog violent to good at fighting, must fasten to live and raise, otherwise dangerous and great, will launch the attack to people. Cang Ao, commonly called as the shepherd dog, height is 1.33 meters, like calves strongly, the head thigh is short, is a bodyguard of cattle and sheep on the grassland. This kind of dog has natural instincts of shepherd. According to observation, a dog not acquainted with flocks of sheep, once after finding the flocks of sheep, know and serve as "the guard" voluntarily, ripe and outstanding Tibet Ao can guard more than nearly 200 sheep, run more than 40 kilometers around the flocks of sheep every day. Shepherd dog adopt finishing one's own mission around the method to shout habitual. Its cry is foolish and great, the deterrent force is very strong, the sense of smell is very sensitive too, listen to Tibetan, this kind of dog's even leopard should be afraid of its three fen. Tibet Ao on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of high elevation, low temperature grows, because of harsh geographical environment, formed it roughly, violent, runs rapidly, the wild nature personality with sensitive sense of smell, used for protecting the domestic animal group and exempting from injury and hunting, are all the best assistant.

>>Bicker
Because its insulating against heat is strong, used in drink tea more, because its body is light the quality is firm again, durable in use, use other food of splendid attire too, it is more practical daily necessities in the Tibetan area. There are a lot of bicker kinds of Tibet, the price difference is great. Generally divided into an ordinary and famous and precious type. The general type is made of roots such as the general term for paulownia, phoenix tree and tung tree, birch, cuckoo, etc. or miscellaneous wood, it is ornamental not to add. The famous and precious type selects a kind of parasitic plant which calls us for use to make, wooden and dark and bright, line detailed such as the hair, in addition, the silver is ornamental, seem more magnificent and more generous even more. The bicker made of our wood returns but gas defense. It is said best bicker to examine tooth.