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Song Xian Qiao Art City

Just outside the west 1st ring road is Chengdu’s largest art market, Songxianqiao Art City. Local foreigners and travelers alike will be able to find whatever it is they are looking for here. However, the market is not cheap and a shopkeeper will obviously try to milk a foreigner for a...

Just outside the west 1st ring road is Chengdu’s largest art market, Songxianqiao Art City. Local foreigners and travelers alike will be able to find whatever it is they are looking for here. However, the market is not cheap and a shopkeeper will obviously try to milk a foreigner for as much as he or she can. There is an interesting selection of Mao Zedong memorabilia to go along with the predictable items such as jade jewelry and stamps, buddha statues, animal figures of all kinds, calligraphic wall hangings, tea sets, and loads of pottery. Be patient as the rows of shops and small stalls, all of which sell relatively similar items, keep bending away from the parking lot. With patience and persistence anyone should be able to find a deal they are satisfied with.

How to get there: The market is located just west of the 1st ring road on the corner of Qingyang Shangjie and Kuanhua Beilu. Hop off bus 17, 19, 35, 47, or 309 relatively soon after you cross the large 1st ring road. The bus stop is just past the market, so walk back east maybe 100 meters from the bus stop. A taxi from the center of town will be less than Y12.

Medicine to buy in Jiuzhaigou

Jiuzhaigou is located on the plateau. not many plants can grow there. but there are very good Tibetan medicine plants , such as :

1. tendril-leaved fritillary bulb ( which is used in very famous medicine Chuanbei Pipa Syrup for coughing ) 

2. The Cord...

Jiuzhaigou is located on the plateau. not many plants can grow there. but there are very good Tibetan medicine plants , such as :

1. tendril-leaved fritillary bulb ( which is used in very famous medicine Chuanbei Pipa Syrup for coughing ) 

2. The Cordyceps sinensis was wild, growth zone above the altitude of 3000 meters to 5000 meters high mountain grassland shrub grass slope near the snow line. in Summer time, the worm lay eggs on the ground, about a month after hatch into larvae into the soft wet soil. A mold the earth invasion of larvae, growth in the larval body, eroding the larvae until his death. After a winter, spring comes to second years, fungal hyphae grow, the fungus grows out of the ground, the appearance is like a piece of grass, body and mycelial larvae constitute a complete "". The spores to body as food, rapid growth, body is generally four to five cm, fungus, a day can be long to body length , then the Chinese caterpillar fungus is known as "head of grass", the best quality; about two times as long to the very next day fungus worm, called as the "two grass", the quality of. Because of the rigid after President of roots, so called "Cordyceps sinensis".

3. Herba Rhodiolae .Rhodiola is resistant to the effects of altitude sickness 

more interesting things , you may go there to see~~