Xi'an Jade and Silk Market

The Xi'an Jade and Silk Market occupies Xiyangshi Street inside the Muslim Quarter, a tighter cluster of small shops and open stalls than the adjacent Huajue Xiang, focused specifically on carved jade pendants and bangles alongside silk scarves and embroidered textiles. Goods range from inexpensive dyed-stone pieces sold as jade to genuine nephrite carvings at established shopfronts, so buyers unfamiliar with jade grading should treat cheap 'jade' with caution and look for shops willing to explain the stone's origin. Silk items similarly range from machine-woven scarves to hand-embroidered pieces from workshops in the wider Shaanxi region. Bargaining is the norm across nearly every stall, with opening prices commonly two to three times what a vendor will ultimately accept; cash in yuan remains the most reliable payment method, though larger shops increasingly take WeChat Pay and Alipay, and there is no tax-refund mechanism at this scale of market. The market shares the Muslim Quarter's food-stall atmosphere, with skewer and pastry vendors at the street's edges, and it is at its most crowded in the evening. The stalls closest to the Great Mosque tend to hold the more established jade dealers, while the market's outer edges mix in general souvenirs alongside the jade and silk specialty.