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Kinghwakuei Gold Jewelry Shop Old Bakery Almost Lost Traditional Handicraft Stores 
Hsiehgi Chinese Herbal Pharmacy The Paste Paper Stores The Incense and Candle Stores and Golden foil paper and Silvery foil paper 
 


Golden foil paper and Silvery foil paper

Huang Heyu Golden Foil Paper Store at No. 200, Hsichang St. was set up in 1880. According to the owner Miss Huang Manzu, the major traditional materials of these paper products include bamboo, bamboo paper, leather paper and tinfoil. The older generation is convinced that only burning golden and silvery foil paper to ashes is reverent enough to communicate with gods and have them hear the prayer. the present customers are mostly old ones and demand much of the quality. This century-old store still upholds the principle of manufacturing in traditional ways, using genuine material and solid substance and honesty to children and aged people.


The Incense and Candle Stores

Old Bright Jade Incense Store at No. 153 & No. 155, Section Ⅱ, Guiyang St. was founded in 1897, which is another century-old incense store in addtion to Shihyingyu Incense Store in Lukang, Zhanghua. to commemorate the hardships of ancestors, the present incense packet sold at the store still carries photos of the founder, Mr. Huang Tsan. The owner says that incense can be categorized into coarse incense and agalwood. The material of the former is clay and the quality is poorer ; the latter is manufactured by Chinese medicine mingled with sandalwood and exudes extreme fragrance. All kinds of incense products at Old Bright Jade are made by several dozens of Chinese medicine and are not harmful to the human body when burned.