Beijing Handicrafts Shop Near Beijing International Hotel

A mile from the Beijing International Hotel sits a popular Beijing shop, where you are offered the opportunity to learn about a variety of old Beijing crafts.

Good Old Days offers all kinds of traditional Beijing handicrafts from cloth cats, wood paintings.

Also, it carries a nice selection Chinese shadow puppets, which many of our guests fell in love with. The puppets are all handmade with donkey hide, and make great shelf display.

Walk for about 20 minutes from Beijing International Hotel and you can reach the shop.

Beautiful Paper-Cut of Magpie

While staying at Beijing International Hotel, you are very close to one of Beijing’s most famous paper-cut shop Zi Yi Xuan.

The shop carries a large collection of paper-cutting works in the center of Beijing. They make paper cuttings of all sorts of themes, including shadow puppets, peacocks, playing children, opera figures, and court ladies.

The shop carries a large collection of paper-cutting works in the center of Beijing. They make paper cuttings of all sorts of themes, including shadow puppets, peacocks, playing children, opera figures, and court ladies.

One of the most popular items with foreign customers is the set of 12 Chinese Zodiac animals, believed to bring happiness and success to their owner.

It takes only less than 15 minutes to get to the shop from Beijing International Hotel.

A Beautiful Porcelain Vase at the Jingdezhen Cermics

Guests of Beijing International Hotel never miss the chance to learn ‘porcelain transmutation’, one of China’s most ancient crafts at the nearby shop Jingdezhen Ceramics.

The shop offers a fine selection of porcelain made by transmutation known in chinese as ‘Yao Bian’. The caftwork originated from Song Dynasty 800 years ago, and involves burning mixture of glaze into silica, lime, or copper ore-rich glasses at high temperatures. After the spontaneous and irregular changing process, it is impossible to have two vessels with the same color.

No wonder one Cambodia ambassador once came to buy a whole lot of transmutation porcelain for his king while staying in Beijing International Hotel.