What should I buy for traveling in Changsha?

In China, influenced by traditional ideas, when people go out, they usually buy some local specialties and souvenirs for their relatives and friends as a means to maintain their relationship. Due to the different living habits and natural environment in different places, specialty products are also varied. So, everyone knows what to buy when traveling to Changsha. Let me introduce it to you.

There are three must-buy specialties in Changsha, namely Xiang embroidery, China purple sand and chrysanthemum stone carving. In addition, the specialties carried with you are Hunan tea, Hunan powder, salted duck, sausage, mung bean cake, wick cake, stinky tofu, tasty shrimp, Liuyang red cypress, Lingwu duck sugar ginger slices, kudzu root and so on.

Hunan embroidery

Shaping Xiang embroidery is a traditional handicraft in Hunan and one of the four famous embroideries in China. Laodaohe Town, Kaifu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province has the reputation of "the hometown of Xiang embroidery in China". Shaping Xiang embroidery mainly produces and manages all kinds of high, medium and low-grade flowers and birds, landscapes, landscapes, figures, portraits, animals, cloth strips, album pages, quilts and scarves, and its products are exported to all parts of the world.

Chinese red

Changsha Kiln, which flourished in the middle and late Tang Dynasty more than 1000 years ago, became the pioneer of colored glaze, especially red glaze in the world. The "China Red" ceramics displayed here have successfully applied big red to large vases, which is a national treasure.

chrysanthemum stone carving

As a unique handicraft in Liuyang County, Hunan Province, it was carved with chrysanthemum stone produced more than 200 million years ago. Liuyang chrysanthemum stone carving is known as "the best in the world". Like chrysanthemums, this kind of stone has single-core, double-core, triple-core and coreless flower cores, and is similar to bamboo leaf chrysanthemum, hydrangea chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum morifolium and chrysanthemum morifolium.

scented tea

Hunan is one of the key tea-producing provinces in China, and its tea output ranks second in the country, so it is known as the "tea town". There are many famous teas in Changsha, the most famous of which are Gao Qiao Yinfeng, Changsha Jasmine Tea and Ningxiang Weishan Maojian Tea. Tea is really a good gift for friends because of its easy preservation, lasting fragrance and mellow aroma.

Xiangfen

Also known as Nanfen, it has a production history of 130 years. Eating hot pot in winter, with vermicelli as the base material, with shredded pork and shredded winter bamboo shoots, can be made into "three-silk hot pot"; As a cold salad in summer, with shredded ginger and shredded pepper, it tastes refreshing, convenient to eat, cheap and delicious.