The Digital Stamp obsession
Before I arrived in China, I had no idea that Gai Zhang was such a massive trend here. Everywhere you go museums, subway stations, temples, and little souvenir shops people are lining up to stamp notebooks in an effort to collect them all.
You have to buy a special blank notebook at any local shop, and to begin the hunt. Some stamps are completely free, some require you to buy a small postcard, and some are incredibly complex.
My favourite ones are called multi-color stamps. You use a plastic guide tool and press five or six different stamps on top of each other, one by one. Each stamp adds a new color and layer, and at the end, you suddenly have a beautiful, detailed painting of a temple or a city skyline.
It is such a fun, cheap way to collect memories. Instead of buying useless plastic souvenirs, I now have a notebook filled with art from every single place I visited. If you are coming here, you absolutely have to buy a stamp book on your first day.