银都水乡新华村
Show this to your driverXinhua: walk a Bai silversmiths' village, away from the tour showrooms
Xinhua village, Caohai town, Heqing county, south of Lijiang
Heqing's silversmithing goes back to the Nanzhao kingdom, and in 2014 the craft, centered on Xinhua village, joined China's national intangible-heritage list. The village has more than 3,000 silver workshops, many with a shop at the front and the workbench behind, so you walk the lanes to the tapping of small hammers shaping pots and bangles. Some studios now run hands-on sessions, and coming on your own lets you skip the big showrooms where tour groups are taken to shop.
What locals sayVisitors like the small village and its workshops; some who came on budget tours saw only the shopping corner.
- Cost
- Free to enter
- Time
- 2–3 hours · Daytime
- In Chinese
- 鹤庆 新华村 银器
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Based on what locals and regular visitors share, checked against current sources · Updated September 2026. Details change — check opening times locally.
