What to buy in Guilin? Besides photos, how could I carry the beautiful Guilin scenery back to my home? It is Guilin travel souvenir! And where can I buy this kind of goods in Guilin? Top Guilin Travel tells you! Chinese paintings especially Guilin scenery paintings will be an ideal choice. As to those modern shopping area, visitors will see another side of Guilin. Need to have a shopping day in Guilin? Just let us know and you will have a full tour in Guilin.
Landscape Paintings
Landscape Paintings in Guilin are more fantastic than that in rest part of China because of the real picturesque landscape in this city. Guilin possesses the splendid natural landscape. It provides many materials for those artists to paint with green hills and clean rivers. Many famous painters including Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, Li Ketan and Bai Xueshi have used Guilin's unique scenery as inspiration for their masterpieces.
Chinese paintings have enjoyed the international fame for decades. And among them, Chinese landscape paintings rank the top of them. Any picture can not instead of the artistic conception in the landscape paintings of Guilin. Besides appreciating the value of this painting, watching the making process Guilin landscape painting is another interesting thing. You will find artists not copying what they are seeing totally, sometimes they prefer to describe their imagination which is caused by this scenery. When you finish your Guilin tour, do not forget to carry a piece of landscape painting so you can remind this fantastic city when you have a look of it.
Yangshuo painted fan
is a romantic good. Made of either silk or paper with bamboo as the fan support, paint fans are delightfully delicate and colorful. Contents painted in this fan usually include birds, flowers, insects and traditional Chinese girls. It is range in size from small to large.
In ancient time, Chinese literators who were good at writing articles or poems would like to hold a painted fan on their hands. It took as a symbol of handsome as well as gentle of them. Sometimes a painted fan can be a symbol of identification. If you had a fan which was sent by the emperor, you may be in a higher position in the social.
Nowadays, these painted fans become interesting goods rather than symbols of the social positions. Small one can be a tool to get rid of hear during the hot days. Some of the large ones can be used as the very elaborate wall decorations in your house.
Paper umbrella 
Try to image that during the misty Guilin, a beauty is holding a Paper Umbrellas and standing on the wooden bridge. This fantastic picture may cause you to press the shutter immediately without hesitation. In you have ever seen some Chinese paintings which describe the beauty in Suzhou and Hangzhou as the main topic, the necessary thing which was held in her hand is the paper umbrella.
Paper umbrella makes Guilin as an idyllic city. With a history of 400 years of making paper umbrellas, Guilin Paper umbrella may serve as a good gift with its high quality and attractive styles. If you decide to visit Guilin in spring period especially the time of Pure and Bright Day, this paper umbrella will be an ideal tool for you to take photos when you do your Li River cuise. The paper umbrella with the Chinese painting landscape is a perfect match in your Guilin pictures.
Guilin Chili Sauce
is one of the specialties of Guilin with hundreds of years’ history. Guilin Chili Sauce is a name card of this landscape city in eating culture field. The unique chili sauce that only produced in Guilin enjoys an international fame for a long time. People in Guangxi as well as other parts of southeastern Asia like this taste very well.
Ranked as one of the top three treasures in Guilin with Sanhua Sprit and Preserved Tofu (also known as Chinese cheese), Guilin chili sauce is made of fresh chili, garlic and fermented soybeans; it also is marketed as soy chili sauce (la jiao jiang and la dou ban jiang are not the same thing, though they look vaguely similar in the jar).
Fermented Tofu (Chinese Cheese)
Fermented Tofu is a kind of food as well as an ingredient. This kind of food is reputed as the Chinese cheese in the world. And among them, Guilin becomes the hometown of fermented tofu. And Guilin fermented tofu is the representative of this kind of food.
What it is
Fermented bean curd also called sufu, fermented tofu, tofu cheese, or preserved tofu is a form of processed, preserved tofu used in East Asian cuisine as a condiment made from soybeans. The ingredients typically are soybeans, salt, rice wine and sesame oil or vinegar, and are sold in jars containing blocks 2- to 4-cm square by 1 to 2 cm thick soaked in brine with select flavorings.
Pearls
Pearls, or pearls jewelry, are easily to carry so that tourists can choose this kind of travel souvenir in Guilin tours. Bright pearls in China is in high qualities while lower prices. Because of the long history, industry of pearls in China has been developed very well.
At present, countless pearl jewelry and artwork have been created by talented Chinese people. Hence, pearl has been one of the important parts of Chinese culture.
Pearl jewelries such as necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings are in modern styles and popular with tourists from all over the world. Elaborate skills and creative design of these goods are also exported to many continents including many countries in Europe and Southeast Asia.
Guilin Sanhua Spirit
Made from rice and Chinese yeast,
Guilin Sanhua Spirit has a long history since the Guilin Sanhua Brewery was established in Song Dynasty. It was only served in the royal family at first. Nowadays, this old brand production is available throughout the area.
The wine adopted the name "Sanhua" (means three flowers) for the fact that it should be brewed three times before the final products. This liqueur is transparent and has a mellow and fragrant taste, but also a good kick! It may be an excuse to drink more Sanhua Alcohol that locals say the spirit improves blood circulation!.
Guilin Sanhua Alcohol represents a culture of this city. It shows the hospitality of the locals. The pure and well-smell liquid is made from the water in Li River. Sanhua Alcohol is a 100% Guilin specialty only can be bought in this picturesque place. When having a cup of Sanhua Alcohol, you may immediately be a fan of this exotic drinking.
