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Yuxian in Zhangjiakou cuts paper with knives, not scissors, and dyes the colour on by hand in more than twenty steps. The craft began as window decoration and is now a county industry with a national listing.
Jimingyi in Huailai County is the largest surviving post station in China: a walled square below Jiming Mountain, set up in 1420, where dispatches and travellers crossed until the courier service ended in 1914. Twenty-two of its buildings have been repaired.
Dajingmen at Zhangjiakou is the only one of the Great Wall's four great passes called a gate. It was built in 1644 beside a border market that had traded with the steppe since 1571, and its four-character inscription dates from 1927.