On the second day, the hotel will arrange a guided tour, the city seems to be a labyrinth set up by ancient times for modern people, even with a modern digital map in hand, 9,000 densely interwoven alleys, bazaars along the streets, all kinds of ceramics, leather, carpets and dyeing workshops, numerous small shops and stalls, you will definitely be confused.

The guide took everyone through the alleys of the ancient city, admiring the palaces, temples and handicraft workshops where the characteristics of the ancient Jewish culture blended, the dried fruits and herbs in the bazaar mixed with the smell of leather and dyes, plus the dazzling porcelain, carpets, leather bags and copperware, made people a little lost in this city of crafts.

Come to the Poterie de Fes, a small factory that still retains the ruins of an ancient kiln, with small courtyards separating the different areas of the process, each with many craftsmen meticulously making each of the porcelain.

From the roughage, coloring, firing, drawing and pasting of the clay, you may be accustomed to the onlookers of tourists, ignoring the flickering of the surrounding cameras.

SC Johnson found that the local mosaic ceramics were completely different from Chinese porcelain, fired from a gray mineral clay from Pfister, with a blue color as the main color, and used small pieces of porcelain to assemble various colors and intricate patterns.

Sticking to the walls of houses and even utensils such as washbasins, bowls and plates, locally known as Zillige. Some are similar to our cloisonné, but cloisonne is a combination of copper and ceramics, while blue mosaic ceramics are a combination of clay and porcelain tiles.

Our cloisonné is elegant and exquisite, while Moroccan ceramics are colorful, enthusiastic and unrestrained, and have a strong style. Each product is a unique handmade product, the color seems to be similar, and each piece is different, with its unique charm and value.

Tourists from all over the world flock here, regardless of the country, it seems that the greatest interest is here, from washbasins, tabletops, ceilings, floor tiles, to jars, cups, kettles, bowls and plates, involving every element of life......

There are tens of thousands of dollars in luxury goods, there are also more than a dozen cute small plates, in the face of a dazzling, colorful ceramic crafts, even Johnson can't help but buy a few as souvenirs.

Walk through the narrow alley and into a house, don't look at the small door is inconspicuous, but there is a hole inside, this is a handmade carpet factory. Entering the building, the courtyard of the three or four stories high, and the carpets of various colors pour down like a waterfall, like a fantasy. In the attic there are several women, weaving carpets, more like a demonstration of production for visitors.

The most famous is the Berber carpet, as the oldest nomadic people in Africa, worship nature, the carpet is also the sand color of the African land, the brown of the rock, the camel color of the camel, the pattern of the desert ripples, camels, plants and so on.

Pick up a piece, it looks coarse, its practical materials are exquisite, even if it is a simple geometric pattern, the workmanship is very delicate, strong and durable, a good carpet can last for several generations.

A good pure wool carpet is not cheap, with pure vegetable dyes, a piece actually sells for six or seven thousand dollars?

Without saying a word, pack it back and spread a piece in the living room of each house!

Finally, we come to the legendary and notorious place, the leather processing factory, the oldest of which has been around for thousands of years. The guide led the group into a room full of leather goods, picked up a mint leaf and put it in front of his nose to smell, the cool mint scent still couldn't hide the pungent smell of leather goods, no wonder it was infamous.

Walking through the room surrounded by various leather bags and shoes, the sales lady is enthusiastic to sell the leather bags to several foreign tourists, and the Moroccan sales are very convincing, starting with the parts of the skins of cows, sheep and camels, and telling you how these skins are dyed with pure plants such as flowers.

Safflower comes from poppies, beige comes from pomegranates, green comes from mint, and brown comes from henna, letting you know that they are not products of modern industry.

Buy a few pairs and walk out onto the balcony of your room. At first glance, the backyard is a vast tanned terrace, with stone or earth dye vats connected together, like a beehive of colorful dyes.

Workers were busy like bees, skinned from animals and stacked on top of each other. The first process is tanning. The processing method of modern factory tanning is to use alum and sodium sulfate to remove the protein of the residual meat fur of the leather and make the leather soft.

The ancient method of leather here is to soak it with substances such as cow urine, quicklime and salt, and then soak it with pigeon dung to soften it before dyeing, although the materials are all natural, but in the factory, the pungent smell does not go away for a long time.

Pick up a small piece of tanned sheepskin, it has been colored, it is very soft to the touch, it is said that many well-known European brands of leather come from here, such as LV?

No wonder it smells weird!

Walking down the alley, both sides are lined with all kinds of small goods shops, especially the glittering copperware shops. Not only copper cups, copper kettles, copper plates and copper basins, but also candlesticks and lampshades. The light shines through the delicate patterns of the bronze, creating a dreamlike scene, which has the feeling of Aladdin's magic lamp.

In front of the shop, the craftsman takes a small hammer and beats the copper skin carefully, and after a thousand hammers, it is slowly shaped into a plate or lampshade, and the pattern is carved on the bronze little by little, which is really the organic crystallization of mental and physical labor.

A huge lampshade with an extremely delicate pattern, I don't know how many days it takes to make this lampshade. There are also very delicate jewelry boxes, I can't believe that such delicate patterns are all hand-typed.

Any pots and pans, I feel that all daily necessities can be knocked out by hand. Next to it are two entertainers dressed in Moroccan national costumes, beating small drums and brass babas, singing Moroccan folk songs, which are specially performed for tourists.

Finally, climb to a high ground in the castle and overlook the panoramic view of the ancient city that has been quietly dormant for thousands of years, and in the distance, shepherds with dogs drive their sheep leisurely past, and I can't help but think of various workshops and factories.

The Industrial Revolution replaced manual production with machines, bringing extremely high production efficiency, but it still could not eliminate the ancient industry of manual manufacturing, which carries cultural values. Even if it will never become the mainstream of industrial production, it will certainly become a way for people to feel culturally nostalgic.

From Egypt here, around the corner, next to the stall, on the grass, it seems that cats can grow at any time?

Cats are not afraid of people, and they are not aggressive, they are basically casual strokes, and their personalities are docile and friendly.

Groups of threes and twos seem to be patrolling their territory, as if they are another owner of the city.