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Special Commercial Street
Da Zha Lan Commercial Street
Traffic: No.20, No.59, No.110, No.120, No.201, No.742, No. 744(branch), No.826, No.859 Bus; or Subway (Qianmen Station)
Da Zha Lan is the oldest and most famous street and commercial downtown with special Beijing flavor in Beijing. It is three hundred meters long east from the Western Street of Qianmen and west to the Meishi Street in the west. Row upon row of store and buildings on narrow streets, bustling with noise and excitement.
Zhang Yiyuan Tea Store
No.22, Dashiler Street, Xuanwu District
63034001
www.zyy365.com
Zhang Yiyuan Tea Store was set up by Zhang Wenqing, a merchant from Anhui Province, in 1908. It was named “Yiyuan” after the term “every thing look new and fresh”. In 1925, Zhang Wenqing himself launched a tea farm in Fujian Province, where the best jasmine was picked, smoke and then make into special flower tea according to the taste of the Northman. Flower tea so made is famous for clear soup, strong flavor, and long aftertaste low price and receives wide praise among the people. Now, Zhang Yiyuan Tea Shop provides not only various kinds of green tea including Long Jing, Bi Luo Chun, Jun Shan Yin Zhen, but also different classes of flower tea, red tea and healthcare tea that are greatly popular in Beijing and the Northman. Meanwhile, there are over 200 varieties of tea that are stored in bag and branded by “Zhang Yiyuan”. Due to the great varieties, Zhang Yiyuan Tea Shop receives wide recognition among the customers and occupies stable market share, and thus achieves comparatively good economic results.
Neiliansheng Shoe-maker
No.34, Dashiler Street, Xuanwu District
63013045
Neiliansheng Shoe-maker, established in the Third Year of Reign of Emperor Xianfeng of Qing Dynasty, has been famous for the convenient and comfortable fabric shoes. After the establishment, Neiliansheng was engaged in making shoes for the officers characterized by high-grade materials and excellent workmanship. Zhao Ting, the owner of Neiliansheng , took great pains to accumulate the information about the size and style required by the officers who asked for shoes a and collect the information about the size, style and special requirements of the shoes preferred by the princes, dukes and ministers and prominent officers. Zhao Ting compiled a book named Records of Shoes. As a result, the buyers might have suitable shoes without going to the shop by themselves, and it provided convenience to send gifts. Therefore, Neilianheng has a fixed great number of customers. Neilingsheng pays great attention to make the shoes. Especially, the bottom of shoes is made of white cloth instead of old and impurity cloth. When stitching soles of cloth shoes, the high-grade rope of hemp produced in Wenzhou must be used and eighty-one stitches are required for each square inch. The fabric shoes of Neiliansheng is of high quality and comfortable and beatiful.
Ruifuxiang Silk Fabric Store
No.5 Dashiler Street Xuanwu District
63041702
www.ruifuxiang.cn
Ruifuxiang Silk Fabric Store, set up in the nineteenth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, is the most famous one of the Eight Old Firms engaged in trade of silk fabric in Beijing. Ruifuxiang pays great attention to lay in stock of goods. Before laying in stock of goods, Ruifuxiang first learns about the market situation, study the demand of the customers and then determine the plan of goods stock. After that, Ruifuxiang directly goes to factories to purchase the goods and tries best to obtain goods of high quality and in novel style and color despite high price. Ruifuxiang provides complete set of silk products, including high-class silk and satins as well as coarse cloth and muslin, colorful cloth and cotton print, with soft and smooth feel and unfading color.
Liubiju Pickles Shop
No.3 Liang Shi Dian Xuanxu District
63035109
www.liubiju.com.cn
Liu Bi Ju has a over 400-year history. Twelve products of Liu Bi Ju were appointed as the food specially provided to the imperial kitchen. There are two stories about the origin of the name “Liu Bi Ju”. The first one is that six person together set up a store and asked Yan Song to write the inscribed board. Yan Song first wrote “Liu Xin Ju” but at the second thought, if the six persons had six different opinions, how could the store be successively operated? He then changed it into “Liu Bi Ju”. The second story indicates the name has something to do with the wine-making. There are six requirements in wine-making about the materials, the tools, the temperature, the water and so on. With the continual improvement in the living level and increasing international communication, the sales volume of pickles of Liu Bi Ju is also increasing year by year. With the care and support of Premier Zhou and municipal leaders, Liu Bi Ju has continually enhance the production and management conditions, built the production factory buildings and purchased the machines and equipments. Now, Liu Bi Ju has developed into a modern advanced food enterprise with considerable scale.
Bu Ying Zhai Shoes Store
No.8 Dashiler Street Xuanxu District
63013329
Bu Ying Zhai Shoes Store was set up in the 8th year of the reign of Emperor Xianfeng (A.D.1858) and a famous old firm engaged in sale of cloth shoes and leather shoes. Bu Ying Zhai consists of two parts; the front part is salesroom and the back one is the workshop. The shoes of Bu Ying Zhai are always characterized by high-grade materials, exquisite workmanship and simple and ancient style. As for the name, “Ying” means sea; “Ying Huan” means the whole world. A person who wears shoes of Bu Ying Zhai is able to walk throughout the world. The shoes of high quality and deep meaning well match the expectation of the customers. Bu Ying Zhai also sells famous brand, special, high quality and new shoes from all big shoes works over the world, including feather shoes, cloth shoes, children shoes, and sports shoes and so on, in over 200 colors and varieties. The shoes are of new and morden style and match the modern popular clothes. Bu Ying Zhai have attracted a great number of customers from all directions due to top quality and considerate service.
Ma Ju Yuan Hat Store
No.8 Dashiler Street Xuanwu District
63035955
Ma Ju Yuan Hat Store was set up in the 16th year of the reign of Emperor Jiaqing (A.D.1811). Doggerel went like “a person who wears hat from Ma Ju Yuan, shoes from Nei Lian Sheng and clothes from Ba Da Xiang and Da Si Heng is a decent person”. Ma Ju Yuan is called the top one of the hat industry because of high-grade materials, exquisite making, top quality and reasonable price. Moreover, Ma Ju Yuan always varies the variety in accordance with the market demand. In Qing Dynasty, Ma Ju Yuan used to make red-tasselled official hat for the officers. The tassel should be made of tail of Tibet yak and be dyed with saffron crocus. The tassel so made appears beautiful and unfading. After liberation, Ma Ju Yuan began to make octagonal cap and caps for Man, Han, Meng, Hui, Zang and Weiwu’er nationalities, in over one hundred colors and varieties. Ma Ju Yuan also makes leather caps out of otter, marten, leopard cat, marmot, gaining great reputation at home and abroad.
Tong Ren Tang Drugstore
No.24, Dashiler Street, Xuanwu District
63030221
Tong Ren Tang salesroom sells decoction of herbal medicine and self-made pill of Chinese medicine. Due to its great reputation, Tong Ren Tang was selected to provide imperial drugstore with medicinal materials in the first year of the reign of Emperor Yongzheng (A.D.1723). The prescriptions of Tong Ren Tang, except ancient prescription and proved folk recipe, mostly are from the famous doctors and the imperial doctors. According to the catalogue of Tong Ren Tang in the fifth year of the reign of the Emperor Guangxu (A.D.1889), nearly half of the list 495 pharmacist-prepared medicines were secret imperial recipes, including Wu Ji Bai Feng Wan and Cen Rong Wei Sheng Wan. The ten most famous self-made pharmacist-prepared medicines of Tong Ren Tang, such as An Gong Niu Huang Wan, Su He Xiang Wan, Zai Zao Wan, An Shen Zan Yu Wan and Zi Xue San, are all precious ones that can save the patients who are critically ill and that are famous for their marvelous efficacy.
De Shou Tang Drugstore
No.175, Zhu Shi Kou West Street, Xuanwu District
63032093
De Shou Tang Drugstore was first set up in 1934, a two-storey building with Chinese and Western characteristics. A clock tower is built on the building and the name of De Shou Tang is engraved on the front wall. The most famous medicine of De Shou Tang is Niu Huang Jie Du Wan. Now, De Shou Tang sells decoction of herbal medicine and self-made pill of Chinese medicine as well as western medicines. There are doctors and pharmacists giving advice to the customers. De Shou Tang also provides services such as decocting the medicine and prepare the medicine according to the recipe.
Liu Li Chang Culture Street
Traffic: No.7, No.14, No.15, No.66, No.45 Bus (Liu Li Chang Station); No.102, No.105, No.603,
No.603 (branch) (Hu Fang Qiao Station and go south); or the Second Line of Subway (He Ping Men
Station and go south).
In the reign of Emperor Qianlong (A.D.1736-A.D.1795), Liu Li Chang became the collecting and distributing center of curio, calligraphy and painting, ancient rubbing from stone inscription and the four treasures of the study. After the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, it has been more like a cultural street. Rong Bao Zhai, China Book Store and other cultural relic shops successively set up salesroom there.
In 1982, Liu Li Chang cultural street was repaired and rebuilt. After that, the 750-meter newly-built street, east from Yan Shou Si Jie, west to Nan Bei Liu Xiang and passing Nan Xin Hua Jie, is more like an ancient street with green brick and grey tile and an air of great antiquity.
Rong Bao Zhai
No.19, West Street, Liu Li Chang, Xuanxu District
63034198
www.rbzarts.com
Rong Bao Zhai was set up in 1672. The former of Rong Bai Zhai was “Song Zhu Zhai”. In the 20th year of Emperor Guangxu, it changed its name into “Rong Bao Zhai” and invited famous calligraphist Lu Runyang to write the name. Rong Bao Zhai is famous for its watercolor block printing at home and abroad. In 1933, Rong Bai Zhai successfully integrate different technologies of carve printing, printing and folding and cutting so as to produce more perfect arts. It was praised by Lu Xun and Zheng Zhenzhuo as the best of the carving workshops in Liu Li Chang. Under the guidance of Lu Xun, Rong Bao Zhai re-carved “Shi Zhu Zhai Guidebook” by Hu Ricong, a famous artist in inscriptions on ancient bronzes and stone tablets at the end of Ming Dynasty. It was so exquisite and excellent that Lu Xun praised it would not be re-carved at the same level in the future. Rong Bao Zhai is good at reproducing the famous works of art. For example, even Qi Baishi himself had great difficulty in recognizing the original one from the reproduced one. The famous works of art reproduced by Rong Bao Zhai, namely, Ye Yan Tu, Zan Hua Shi Nv Tu, Qing Ming Shang He Tu, have been exhibited successively in over 20 countries and gained very high reputation.
Hai Wang Cun
No.115, East Street, Liu Li Chang, Xuanwu District
63017979
Beijing Hai Wang Cun came into being in dynasties of Liao and Jin and prospered in the end of Qing Dynasty and early days of the Republic of China. Now, Beijing Hai Wang Cun, located in the east street of Liu Li Chang and covering an area of 1500 square meters, is the oldest large curio market in Beijing. It is engaged in tens of thousands of commodities including calligraphy and painting and curio and has enjoyed very high reputation at the collection circle at home and abroad. A number of important political figures and famous people visited this wonderful place for leisure and shopping in Liu Li Chang.
Hong Bao Tang
No.3, West Street, Liu Li Chang, Xuanwu District
63017427
Hong Bao Tang is set up and developed on the basis of the former “Kong Shan Tang”in June 1999. With a short history, Hong Bao Tang has enjoyed considerable reputation in the cultural circle at home and abroad for its painting and calligraphy.
Beijing Painting Store
No.44, West Liu Li Chang, Xuanwu District
63183640
For many years, Beijing Painting Store has enjoyed a worldwide reputation for the unique artistic charm of its classic works. Beijing Painting Store always adheres to the principles that are to making friends through the painting and seek greater development with the help of the friends. Beijing Painting Store moved from Wangfujing Downtown to Liu li Chang in 2003. The inscribed board is written by Wu Zuoren, a great artist. The store specially deals with modern and contemporary Chinese painting and calligraphy and the works of the famous artists and calligraphists. It not only serves the window for spreading arts and culture, but also the palace of elegant arts. The store consists of exhibition room of paintings, exhibition room of traditional Chinese painting, sales room of the treasures of the study, the sales area of the painting materials, mounting center and the room of industrial arts and presents. The simple and unadorned cultural flavor and elegant artistic atmosphere definitely make you enjoy yourself so much as to forget to go home.
Dai Yue Xuan Brush Pen Store
No.73, East Street, Liu Li Chang, Xuanwu District
63042542
www.daiyuexuan.com
Dai Yue Xuan Brush Pen Store, which is set up in the fifth year after the establishment of the Republic of China, is engaged in the making and sale of brush pen as well as other articles of the study. It is the only old firm named after the individual name on the cultural street in Liu Li Chang, with the horizontal inscribed board written by Xu Shichang. Dai Yue Xuan strictly follows the procedures to make each brush pen. As a result, each brush pen is of high quality and beautiful appearance, with a pointed, evenly trimmed, round and strong pen point. The brush pen is greatly trusted and liked by the calligraphists and artists.
Yi De Ge
No.67, East Liu Li Chang, Xuanwu District
63017332 / 63017336
Yi De Ge is first set up in the fourth year of reign of Emperor Tongzhi (A.D.1865) and has a history of over 140 years. The prepared Chinese ink of Yi De Ge is made of lampblack and pine-soot. During the early days after liberation, Yi De Ge developed reasonable directions for producing Chinese ink using abundant-pigment natural carbon black mixed with muskiness, borneol and creosote. The ink so made not only appears jet black, but also is antiseptic and of strong fragrance. Li Kuchan, a famous artist, once wrote: “the ink of Yi De Ge is of suitable concentration and good for painting and calligraphy.” Yi De Ge again developed the famous products such as “Chinese Ink”.
Ji Gu Ge
No.25 South Xin Hua Street, Xuanxu District
63032145
Beijing Ji Gu Ge Cultural Relic Reproduction Works is a traditional workshop that is managed in advanced way. There is gathering of craftsmen with special abilities. Ji Gu Ge is engaged in repair, processing and reproduction of cultural relics for the museums at home and abroad through traditional arts and crafts, production of Chinese cultural relics with high ornamental and artistic value and sale of duplicates of representative cultural relics including bronze ware, keramics, rubbings, woodcarving, carved stone, fresco and ancient paintings.
Cui Wen Ge
No.58-60, East Street, Liu Li Chang, Xuanwu District
63036054
In the end of 1940s, “Cui Wen Ge” Lettering Shop appeared in the East Liu Li Chang. The owner of the Lettering Shop was Mr.Wei Changqing, a famous calligraphist. He was good at making, imprinting and lettering characters named “Wu Chang Shuo Ti” and better at making “Ba Bao Inkpad”. “Ba Bao Inkpad” is made of high-grade silver bead that is smashed and screened with a bamboo basket, mixed with the powder of pearl and carnelian. “Ba Bao Inkpad” appears cardinal red and 亮丽. It is so named because the inkpad consists of several valuable materials. Since the proportion of oil and other materials is determined after several experiments, the painting and calligraphy using such inkpad is coloury and unfading.
Maliandao Tea Street
When you drive a car going west along the famous Guang’an Street, passing the Crossroads of Guang’anmen and then turning left, you will see Maliandao Tea Street, the most famous tea street in Beijing. Almost 700 tea merchants from all main tea-growing areas have set up tea stores here. Maliandao Tea Street has become the largest tea distributing center in North China, supplying all kinds of famous, special, high-quality and newly-picked tea and achieving annual sales volume over 1 billion yuan accounting for nearly 10% of the national annual sales volume. The famous saying goes: “the quality of tea is as high as that of people, the old customer and the new ones are all customers.” In order to further development of the special street and forge the famous brand of Xuanwu, Xuanwu District government held Beijing Green Tea Festival, an effort to build on the atmosphere of tea culture and boost the economy of Xuanwu district while providing the investors with vast commercial opportunities. Welcome to Maliandao Tea Street to enjoy the old and traditional tea culture. Maybe, you will come across some commercial opportunities and good ideas.
Niu-Jie
Niu-jie North Entrance Station of No. 53 and No.109 Bus
Niu-jie is a block of national characteristics, north from Guang’anmen Neidajie, south to Nanheng Xijie, Zaolin Qianjie, west from Baiguang Road and east to Jiaozi Hutong, covering an area of 35.9 hektare. The planned commercial buildings along the street cover an area of nearly 80,000 square meters. As the largest 回民聚集区 in Beijing, Niu-jie has a long history and inhabits over 20 minorities. The region gathers food and drink, clothes, tourism and commerce with Muslin cultural characteristics. With the successive move-in of Tulufan Restaurant and Donglaishun Restaurant, the establishment of Niu-jie Muslim Supermarket as well as Huimin Primary School and the Street of Snacks with full-bodied Muslim characteristics, Niu-jie has become an area with increasingly distinct national features.
Niu-jie Muslim Supermarket
North Entrance of Niu-Jie, Xuanwu District
63171801
It is the biggest special market for Muslim food and appliances. It consists of two floors; the underground floor is self-selecting area for food including raw and cooked beef and mutton, raw seafood, wines and drinks, non-staple food, leisure food, staple food and non-polluted vegetables. The over-ground floor is an area for home appliances and traditional snacks including the daily-use sundry goods and customs appliances for people of Hui Nationality.
The providers for the supermarket include the state-owned enterprises such as Beijing Muslim Food Company and Zhengxingde Tea Store as well as beef and mutton companies from Inner-Mongolia Prairie, and old food firms such as Yushengzhai, Qinghuazhai, Yijinxinfu and Jubaoyuan as well as folk workshops such as Niangaoqian.
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