Seals or chops engraved with one’s name are a good and useful purchase. While scholars of old paid large sums for rare stones with well-cut characters, visitors can buy cheaper ones at many arts and crafts stores in the city. The cheapest stones, including the carving of your name in both scripts, plus a box, start at about 15 Yuan. Most expensive chicken blood stones can cost thousands of Yuan. Orders can sometimes be fulfilled on the spot in less than 10 minutes. Cutters can transliterate foreign names into Chinese.
