Jiuquan Luminous Cup Factory

Addressed No.2, Minyi street, built in 1956, it has a history of 50 years. The Jiuquan Luminous Cup Factory enjoys high reputation in producing jade up and other tourist handicrafts. It has a staff of 58 workers, 32 of them are specific personnel. It has four workshops of 3,563 square meters of floor space and two stores. It produces 80,000 pieces of luminous cups and other tourist handicrafts of jade.

Luminous cups are drinking vessels made of jade. When the cup is filled with wine and put under moon light, it shines as bright as moon light, that is why people call it Luminous Cup. It is said as early as in Zhou Dynasty luminous cups had been presented as tributes to the court. Luminous-cup products produced in Jiuquan are varied in shape, size and material. Traditional luminous cups include fat-bottomed cups, high-legged cups and tea-set cups. Cups in style of the ancient times are Jue (wine vessel with three legs and a loop handle), shang, Gong (made of horn ) and Zun. They all look beautiful, colorful, thin, smooth, bright and crystal with natural veins. Wine poured in these cups seems to be specially tasty.

Since open of China, the factory has been one of the major tourist attractions in the region. More than thirty thousand of people came to visit the factory. Visitors can see the whole process of manufacture in workshop. They bought a lot of them as souvenirs and gilts. The cups have been exported to many countries as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

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