The Old Town Lijiang is a great scenic spot gathering a lot of specialties and souvenirs stamped with ethnic and folk features. Travelers can choose some of them to present as gifts to their family members, relatives and friends. Let TOC be your guide to dig deeper of shopping in Lijiang. Useful tips will be offered as well.
What to shop
Lijiang Snow Tea(Xue Cha in Mandarin)
Snow tea, also called as Taibai tea, got the name due to its color just as pure white as snow. It grows in the Bryophytes zone, which is about 4000 meters above sea-level. Snow tea can not be cultivated, but totally a wild-growing plant. Lijiang snow tea is cool-natured with a favorable sweet flavor, being abundant in thamnolic acid, squamatic acid, baeomycesic acid, D-arabitol, mannitol, amino acid and various vitamins as well as trace elements. And all of them have good efficacy in promoting the production of body fluid to quench thirst, clearing away heat and toxic material, moisturizing lungs, lowering blood pressure etc.
With a profound history, Lijiang snow tea was honored as an imperial tribute even in the Ming Dynasty. It is really a great gift for travelers to present to their relatives and friends.
Naxi silver ornaments
Lijiang is not only in possession of breathtaking sceneries and time-honored Naxi Dongba Culture, but also owns a variety of ethnic handicrafts, combining classic simplicity and modern vitality in a perfect way. Even in the Qing Dynasty, Lijiang silver ornaments had won great reputation in Tibet, India, Nepal etc., being one of the must-carry things in the Tea-Horse Ancient Road(From the Tang Dynasty, an important trade road, just as famous as the Silk Road was prosperous in southwestern China. Later to be known as the Tea-Horse Ancient Road, this road moved through Sichuan, Yunnan provinces and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. However, thousands of years' changes have resulted in the disappearance of the road). The silver ornament is soft and bright in color. It is said that it could also avoid evil spirits in the locals' minds. 
Lijiang Bai Sui Fang
Address: located at Xinyi Street, Old Town Lijiang.
Tel: 0888-5165999
Li Yin (Li's Silver)
A formal shop sells many kinds of hand-crafted silver ornaments.
Address: No.43, Guanyuan Alley, Guangyi Street, Square Street, Old Town Lijiang.
Naxi shawls
Knitted shawls of the Naxi Group have been popular with female travelers for a long time. They can be used either as accessories or cold-protecting clothes. Usually shawls are well-knitted by manual work. Thus a few of them are very precious. Travelers can bring some home as gifts for family members and female friends. Do choose some Lijiang-styled ones to be in memory of your beautiful Lijiang tours.
Editor's words:
The ideal place for travelers to shop is in the old town, where gathers almost all the worth-buying goods. If you find something lovely and want to buy it, please do remember to bargain with sellers. If you have communication problems with the locals, our tour guide will help you deal with them. Wish you a good time here!
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