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After a refreshing sleep from your Beijing Hotel’s room, it’s now time to fall in love again with China’s artful past.

Shopping in Beijing can be a very hectic task, considering the possibility of being lost in traffic, misguided by maps, and experiencing the barriers in communication. Luckily, some hotels are offering services such as shopping assistants to help you with your shopping needs.

If you’re an art enthusiast and is in search for the best of what Beijing can offer, then the streets of Beijing is your treasure box in the making.

Chinese brush pens are very popular among the local artists in China since they use a lot of different kinds of brush pens to create their master pieces. One shop located within the proximity of most Beijing hotels sells a complete line of brushes that painters and students alike, use.

Chinese brush pens are said to be unique because they come in a variety of sizes and textures that are tailor made to suit your individual preference.

For example, a large soft weasel hair brush is used for applying color on a painting that has water lily or lotus leaves on it, while medium sized brushes made from goat or sheep hair is used for controlling difficult outlining stokes. Small brushes on the other hand are best used for very fine outlining. For a variety of effects, hairs from squirrels, rabbits, horses, and chickens are also used.

Mr. Zhang, An owner of a famous brush pen shop and with 50 years of experience in the industry guarantees his customers dependable and good quality brushes. He also engraves special Chinese characters to personalize the brush you want. Your shopping assistant would help you communicate with Mr. Zhang If you wish to have your brushes encrypted with classical Chinese characters.

If you’re not interested in brushes, perhaps you could take a look at other shops around Beijing hotels that sell lovely oil paintings.

In the first floor of Beijing’s largest market you can find Ms. Chen’s art studio. Ms. Chen is a contemporary artist that focuses on Western-style and combined Chinese-western styles of oil paintings. The subject of her painting are mostly about landscapes, figures, and still objects which are very appealing to both tourist and Chinese nationals.

Shopping in Beijing can’t get any better than this, with the help of your shopping assistant, you can be assured of getting the most value out of your money since your shopping assistant not only guides you on what items are cheaper, but they also bargain for you. The shopping assistants are also knowledgeable of Beijing’s shopping geography, ergo, she will be able to take you to the shops that are near your Beijing hotel, saving not only your money but your time as well.

To know more about these personal shopping assistants, you can inquire from your Beijing hotel’s help desk or you can also visit myshoppingbeijing.com for your convenience.

Author E. Larson is a long-time expatriate in Beijing, China. He works with the Xijiao Beijing Hotel and many other beijing hotels. Go to his website on the Xijiao Beijing Hotel here.