Shopping in Xian---Get Anything You Want
07,2007
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Xian is also a thriving business district for selling almost everything you could ever want: clothing, antiques, musical instruments and other souvenirs and cultural items. Streets of market near the Muslim behind the Drum Tower, Calligraphy Street, East Street (Dongda Jie), West Street (Xida Jie), South Street (Nanda Jie), Baihui Market and Kangfu Lu are typical areas for shopping in Xian City.
Calligraphy Street
An ideal souvenir shopping area is Calligraphy Street. It is located near South Gate inside the city wall towards the east. Walking down south street on the left side, continue to where the road splits in front of South Gate and turn left to find the entrance gate next to a small pagoda. Midway does a slight dog leg to the right. At the far end is the Forest of Steles. Sellers here usually offer you a very high price, so even if you bring them down by 50%, they will still make a big profit. This is a good place to buy calligraphy and folk art, specifically folk style block prints in a single shop which calls for about ¥50 if you can stand bargaining.
East Street (Dongda Jie)
East Street (Dongda Jie) is 2150meters long, ranging from the Drum Tower to Chang Le Gate. It was initially built in Sui Dynasty when the new capital Da Xing Cheng was established. At that time, this street was named Jingfeng Gate Street for its location at the both sides of Jingfeng Gate-the south gate of eastern city wall. At the beginning of Republic of China, the street was greatly constructed, and was called Zhongshan Dajie. Until 1953, it was partly widened and got the name of East Street (Dongda Jie). The East Street descending from the central Bell Tower has regular fashion shops selling finer clothes and shoes (e.g. Louis Vuitton).
Xiao Zhai
Xiao Zhai, nicknamed the Student City, is along the road named Chang'an Lu that stretches from the South Gate all the way to the southern outer suburbs of the city. Xiao Zhai is also called The Student City, which is a wonderful place for everyone young, hip and happening. Xiao Zhai is the right place for you to see extreme haircuts, extreme fashion styles, or to get one of those hair cuts yourself. Besides, The Student City is an assembly of mazelike shopping malls, all kinds of 
bars, restaurants, covered markets and so on.
Baihui Market, one of those fake-brand markets, is just located in Xiao Zhai. Lots of local youngsters do their shopping in Baihui Market for its fashion but low-price commodity. Sport shoes should be less than ¥150, pullovers and nice jeans sometimes less than ¥100, lots of cheap fashion accessories. This is also a great place for DVDs and CDs.
Xiao Zhai has every kind of strange shop you can imagine and it is really a nice place to shop, eat or just observe the ways of a new generation of Chinese people.