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China's
silk world-famous for its magnificent quality, Colors
and kinds; they include Hangzhou brocade, Chengdu's
Sichuan brocade, Suzhou's fine, tough silk, pure silk,
crepe de Chine, and Dandong's tussah silk.
China
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China
is the home of tea, divided into green, black, perfumed,
white and Wulong tea. Green teas Longjing and Biluochun;
black tea, Oihong and Yunfeng; scented tea, jasmine
tea; white tea, Yinzhenbaihao, Gongmei and Shoumei;
Wulong tea, Dahongpao, and Tieguanyin.
China
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Since
ancient times, China's wine has developed a school
of its own winning many international awards. White
wine:Guizhou's Maotai, Shaxi's Fen wine and Zhuyeqing
, Sichuan's Wuliangye and Jiannanchun, Anhui's Gujing
tribute wine , Jiangsu's Yanghe Daqu, Guizhou's Dong
wine and Sichuan's Luzhou Laojiao Tequ; Fruit wine;
Yantai's gold medal brandy, red grape wine, and Weimeisi,
Beijing's China red grape wine, Hebei's Shacheng white
grape wine, Henan's Minquan white grape wine, yellow
wine: Shaoxing's rice wine, Longyan's sinking-in-jar
wine and Danyang's sealed jar wine. As far as beer
is concerned, there are many local brands, with Tsingtao
Beer the most famous.
China
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Chinese
Medicine With along history, it has formed a complete
system for thousands a years. TCM is made from animal
and plant material and using traditional methods.
Valuable TCM for building up people's health include
ginseng, Phrymosoma, donkey-hide gelatin, pilos antler,
the tuber of multiflower knotweed, the fruit of Chinese
caterpillar fungus, rhubarb horse-tails, the rhizome
of Chinese goldthread, beazoar, the capsule of weeping
forsythia, Chinese angelica, glutinous remannia, the
rhizone of Chuanxiong, Tianqi, licorice root, apricot
kernel and the root of balloonflower, etc.
China
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Arts
and crafts are the wonderful works of art in the cultural
and art treasure house of the Chinese nation. Carving
embroidery, and porcelain, glassware, weaving, printing
and dyeing, replicas of ancient cultural relics are
all exquisite in craft and of varied graceful bearing.
Cloisonneis the special traditional handicraft of
Beijing, and Jiangxi Jingdezhen porcelain is the representative
porcelain of China. China's hand-made carpets sell
briskly on international markets. Suzhou, Hunan, Guangdong
and Sichhuan embroidery are known as China's "four
large famous embroideries". Zhejiang's Dongyang wood
carving and bambooware, Tianjin's painted clay figurines
by artisan Zhang, Shandong's straw and willow article's
Henan's Luoyang Tang tri-color horses and camels,
Guizhou's batik, Jiangsu's Wuxi Hui clay figurines
and the four treasures of study: Anhui's Xuan paper
and ink stick, Guangdong's Zhaoqing Duan ink slab
and Zhejiang's Wuxing Shanlian Hu writing brush, as
well as folk scissor cut created by women farmers
are all long-famous handicrafts.
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