What traditional handicrafts are there in Kunming?

Kunming is a spring city with delicious food, beautiful scenery and many traditional handicrafts. Come and see what traditional handicrafts Kunming has!

Kunming Specialty 1: spot copper, Yunnan

Yunnan spot copper is a traditional handicraft in Kunming with a very long history. As early as the Warring States and the Western Han Dynasty, Kunming created a bronze culture with distinctive national characteristics, peculiar regional colors and unique artistic style. Spotted copper technology is a wonderful flower that grows on the basis of absorbing bronze and bronze drum making technology. The manufacturing process of spot copper is complicated. It uses a unique process to mix copper with other metals, showing a variety of magnificent rib patterns, gold staggered, luxurious and elegant, hence the name Spotted Copper.

Kunming specialty 2: Kunming batik

Kunming batik is a traditional handicraft in Kunming, Yunnan Province, with a long history. The production process of batik is very elegant. Kunming batik combines the culture of Yunnan ethnic minorities, with unique and novel patterns, simple and elegant styles, songs and very reasonable prices. If you go to Kunming, you must buy batiks.

Kunming specialty 3: Kunming tooth carving

Kunming tooth carving is a characteristic product of Kunming with a very long history, which began in the Neolithic Age. Ivory is fine in texture, moderate in hardness, soft in luster and fine in tooth quality, so it is naturally a good natural material for making high-grade handicrafts. Generally speaking, ivory carving art can be divided into four categories: people, animals, flowers and scenery. Carved ivory carvings are cherished by collectors, and become one of the unique varieties of antiques with solid and delicate textures, soft and smooth colors and exquisite carving art.

Kunming specialty four: picking flowers in southern Shandong

Picking flowers in southern Shandong is a traditional handicraft of Sani people (a branch of Yi people) in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, with a long history. The main products are backpacks, tablecloths, curtains, clothes and so on. There are many ways to pick flowers, including single-sided picking and double-sided picking: plain picking and new-colored silk picking. Some products are selected, embroidered and supplemented. Its finished products are exquisite or extensive, which fully shows the intelligence and artistic creativity of Sani people.

Kunming specialty five: tea carving

Tea carving is a famous tea with characteristics in Kunming, Yunnan, which can be divided into artworks and handicrafts according to its artistic content. Tea carving is developed on the basis of Pu 'er tea production technology. The traditional pressed tea in China is monotonous in shape and lacks ornamental value. The development of tea carving began in 2005. With Yunnan Daye sun-dried tea as the only raw material, Pu 'er tea was pressed into tea carving works with various styles by carving pure steel molds, which still has high collection value.