DOING SHOPPING

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DOING SHOPPING
WHAT'S WORTH BUYING IN CHINA?
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Did you know that

• Poles import from China
• 38 TV sets
• 37 compact equipment
• 38 mobile phones
• 80 clothes
• Chinese products swamp the world.

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Typical Chinese Souvenir Shop
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SILK AND BROCADE PRODUCTS
It was a symbol of wealth and high social status
for Romans to wear silk clothes. Nowadays, silk,
in some sense, is still some kind of luxury.
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KINDS OF SILK

• It is well known that silk is discovered in China
  in 30th century BC as one of the best materials
  for clothing - it has a look and feeling of
  richness that no other materials can match.
• Chinese silk is famous in the world for its
  magnificent quality, colour and variety.
  Representative samples are brocade from Hangzhou,
  Sichuan brocade from Chengdu, the fine, tough
  silk and pure silk crepe from Suzhou and tussah
  silk from Dandong.

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SILKWORM BREEDING

• The business of raising silkworms and unwinding
  cocoons is now known as silk culture or
  sericulture. It takes an average of 25-28 days
  for a silkworm, which is no bigger than an ant,
  to grow old enough to spin cocoon. Then the women
  farmers will pick them up one by one to piles of
  straws, then the silkworm will attach itself to
  the straw, with its legs to the outside and begin
  to spin.
• The next step is unwinding the cocoons it is
  done by reeling girls. The cocoons are heated to
  kill the pupa, this must be done at the right
  time, otherwise, the pupas are bound to turn into
  moths, and moths will make a hole in the cocoons,
  which will be useless for reeling. To unwind the
  cocoons, first put them in a basin filled with
  hot water, find the loose end of the cocoon, and
  then twist them, carry then to a small wheel,
  thus the cocoons will be unwound. At last, two
  workers measure them into a certain length, twist
  them, they are called raw silk, then they are
  dyed and woven into cloth.
• An interesting fact is that we can unwind about
  1,000 meters long silk. from one cocoon, while
  111 cocoons are needed for a man's tie and 630
  cocoons are needed for a woman's blouse

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COCOONERY
Mulberry tree
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Silk quilts
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CHINESE CERAMICS
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SOUVENIRS- PORCELAINE FIGURINES
Polychrome-glazed pottery-dominant colours
green, yellow and white
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Pottery vs Porcelain
Pottery - ordinary clay with iron content
higher than 3, burned at temp. below 1000
degrees Celsius with no glaze. Porcelain
porcelain Stone and clay with iron content lower
than 3, Temp.above 1200 deg.Cel. With high
temperature glaze over 1200 degrees Centigrade.
Bronze and clay pottery
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CHINESE PORCELAIN

• Porcelain is generally believed to have
  originated in China. Although proto-porcelain
  wares exist dating from the Shang Dynasty, by the
  Eastern Han Dynasty (100-200 CE) high firing
  glazed ceramic wares had developed into
  porcelain, and porcelain manufactured during the
  Tang Dynasty period (618906) was exported to the
  Islamic world where it was highly prized.2
  Early porcelain of this type includes the
  tri-color glazed porcelain, or sancai wares.
  Historian S.A.M. Adshead writes that true
  porcelain items in the restrictive sense that we
  know them today could be found in dynasties after
  the Tang,3 during the Song Dynasty, Yuan
  Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty.
• By the Sui and Tang dynasties, porcelain had
  become widely produced. Eventually, porcelain and
  the expertise required to create it began to
  spread into other areas by the seventeenth
  century, it was being exported to Europe.

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PORCELAIN FACTORY
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CHINESE PORCELAIN PRODUCTS
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CHINESE CLOISONNE

• Cloisonne, named as enamelware, have originated
  in Beijing of Yuan dynasty and prevailed during
  the period of Ming dynasty (1450 1456). Its
  typically called Blue of Jingtai as blue was
  the dominant colour used for enameling.
• Cloisonne ware was used only for the royal family
  as it was the symbol of authority and status.

Cloisonne is the everlasting art. And loved by
the people of the world
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CHINESE TABLEWARE
with under and over-glaze painting
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Painted Crystal Ball
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TIGER SHOES
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FURNITURE MADE FROM LACQUER TREE
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LACQUER WARE

• Asian lacquer ware is well known to art
  collectors worldwide, and is the result of some
  of the finest craftsmanship techniques in the
  world. Lacquer ware is created by applying
  lacquer to wooden objects to give it a fine
  finish and luster. Although the craft was
  developed in both China and Japan, Japanese
  craftsmen are generally credited with taking
  Chinese lacquer techniques and maturing them to
  create the highly regarded art form that lacquer
  ware creation has become today.

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JEWELLERY- PEARL
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PEARL

• Most of the pearls you'll find in China are
  freshwater pearls, cultivated in mollusks in
  lakes and rivers. Their shape can be elongated
  and their appearance milky translucent.
  Freshwater pearls are certainly the real value
  when buying pearls in China, but sea water and
  South Sea pearls are also good values. In
  addition to pearls, there's seemingly no end to
  the semi-precious stones you can add to designs,
  such as jade and turquoise, as well as
  inexpensive crystal and plastic beads.

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Pearl Breeding Institute
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JADE WARE
Jade is used to make ritual implements,
ceremonial and decorative objects, wearing
ornaments, burial objects
as well as daily utensils.
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ANCIENT CHINESE JADE

• A Symbol of Wealth and Power jade wares were
  owned by the upper class in ancient China.
• An Envoy of Religious Deities jade could be a
  link between human beings and gods, so had a
  special function to get rid of evils was worn
  as an amulet.
• A Mark of Morality Chinese related the natural
  qualities of jade with human morality as
  Confucius claimed that jade had the qualities of
  wisdom, justice, courtesy, loyalty, happiness,
  trustworthiness and benevolence.
• China, a country with an abundant deposit of
  jade, is well known for its special art of jade
  carving. The tradition started early in the
  Neolithic period and the carving techniques were
  very unique and advanced.

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HAND-WOVEN AND EMBROIDERED PICTURES
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SILK WEAVING PLANT
Silk fabric can be woven by machine or
embroidered by hand. There are about five Schools
of embroidering art. There are 2 types of
embroidery cross (in Suzhou) and knot (in
Chengdu). It takes 1 -3 months to make a picture,
a weaving machine makes 1.5 cm a day.
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MEDICAMENTS
Natural products have been used for medicinal
purposes since ancient times. These include
materials from plant, animal, and mineral
sources, with the majority derived from
plants. Nearly 5,000 species of plants are used
for medicine in China today, a fact that is of
high interest to western medical researchers and
pharmaceutical companies. Two examples Chinese
do research on activity against HIV and malaria.
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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
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TEA SHOPS

• China is the home of tea. Tea is divided into
  green, black, perfumed, white and Wulong tea.
  Longjing (green tea) and Biluochun (green tea),
  are famous throughout the world.

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HONG KONG- ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
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OTHER EQUIPMENT
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USEFUL TIPS

• Before you leave for Chinese shopping spree,
  keep in mind the following pieces of advice
• Bargaining is advisable
• Be careful of fake products
• Beware of viruses when buying piratical
  (illegal)software
• GOOD LUCK! ITS WORTH ITS PRICE

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Useful phrases

• magnificent quality- wspaniala jakosc
• samples- próbki
• silkworm breeding- hodowla jedwabnika
• a pile of straw- stos slomy
• to spin- przasc
• unwinding the cocoons- rozwijanie kokonów
• a pupa- poczwarka
• a moth- mol
• raw silk- surowy jedwab
• a mulberry tree- morwowe drzewo
• a tableware- zastawa stolowa
• laquer ware- wyroby z laki
• a luster- polysk, blask
• a freshwater pearl- perla slodkowodna
• mollusks- mieczaki

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• translucent- pólprzezroczysty
• semi-precious stones- pólszlachetne kamienie
• Jade- nefryt
• an envoy- wyslannik
• a deity- bóstwo
• a wisdom- madrosc
• a benevolence- laskawosc, dobrodziejstwo
• abundant- liczny
• a carving- rzezba
• throughout the world- wszedzie na swiecie
• to swamp the world- zalewac swiat
• elongated- wydluzony
• craftsmanship- kunsztowny

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Authors Joanna Madura Danuta Mironska European
Club I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace Mielec, Poland
Source Personal photos Impressions Internet
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