Haige International Hotel Beijing: A Colored Glaze Article

If you want to buy the beautiful colored glaze products, go to Bai Yi De Kun. This is a shop close to Haige International Hotel Beijing.

The shop features various handmade glazed articles. The vases and jewelry are especially sold well. Their fabulous colors look quite amazing, like colorful liquid flowing inside a translucent body.

Producing these wonders needs unique technique. First it needed to be melted at 1400 degrees, then goes through 50 steps during production.

The different colors results from the use of different metal elements.  For instance, cobalt produces green, and gold produces red.

By a car, it takes only 15 mins to go to this shop from Haige International Hotel Beijing.

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Haige International Hotel Beijing: A Calligraphy Shop

Close to Haige International Hotel Beijing, there is a famous culture street named Liulichang. Lots of interesting antique, art and handicrafts shops can be found on this street. Mr. Xu Bi's calligraphy shop is a unique one.

The middleaged Mr. Xu started to learn calligraphy at the age of six. He is good at writing tiny and huge Chinese characters. His large writing brush weighs 4.5 kg, or 10 pounds. Using it, he can write a Chinese character 7 feet tall and 3 feet wide.

The tiny characters he writes are as small as an ant. He uses the tip of a brush to write these tiny characters.

Mr. Xu's shop offers a special service: designing signatures for customers.

From Haige International Hotel Beijing, you can walk to this shop to watch on the spot how Mr. Xu uses his large heavy writing brush to write Chinese characters.

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