Huangshan Shopping ? There are many local specialties in Huangshan, such as chrysanthemum flowers, Santan loquats, Huizhou Chinese torreya, gyrophora and She County kumquat. Wan'an compasses and Huizhou carvings on wood, bamboo and brick are well-known traditional handcrafts. In additional, travelers can purchase some tea for drinking, since the city has more than 30 kinds of tea brands well-known both at home and abroad. So many popular local products are nice for you to buy when traveling there.
Buy Chinese Tea at Huangshan Tea City
Huangshan Mountain is a famous tea producing area in China, tea from this area is well known overseas and is famed for the quality of green-tea, such as Maofeng is regarded as the top ten green-tea of China.
Huangshan Maofeng Tea: The unique climate and landform of Mount Huangshan make the tea here famous. In the annual Qingming Valley Rain, plump buds are picked and fresh tea leaves are picked from the peak of Huangshan Mountain. Different teas have different feelings, so different teas have their own "flavor". After visiting Mount Huangshan, take a hot spring and drink authentic Huangshan Maofeng Tea, which is the best way for tourists to experience life in Huangshan Mountain.
Taiping Houkui Tea: It is also one of the most famous teas in Mount Huangshan. It is a premium green tea, and when you taste it, you will feel that its taste and texture are very fragrant. Mount Huangshan is blessed by the heaven with rich products, and the tea produced is also suitable for the public taste. The shape of Houkui tea leaves is pointed at both ends, and it does not loosen or curl its edges. The brewed Houkui tea has a unique charm and sweet taste. It is a good choice for you to drink Taiping Houkui tea in Mount Huangshan before the Qingming Festival.
Huangshan Tea City is the largest and highest tea trade center in south Anhui Province. There are many tea shops selling a variety of tea, including Mount Huangshan Maofeng, Qimen Black Tea, Taiping Houkui, etc. If you want to buy some tea, you can come to the tea city for a stroll. Here you can not only buy every kind of tea but can also experience tea culture first hand in tea history hall; you can have a tea taste at tasting tea hall and appreciate tea ceremony in any of the existing performance halls.
Address: No. 1, Hehua West Road, Tunxi District, Huangshan City
Telephone: 0559-2528585
Business Hours: 09:00-21:00
Go shopping at Tunxi Ancient Street
The Four Stationery Treasures of the Chinese Study 文房四宝 : When traveling in Mount Huangshan, you can learn about this special product with historical and cultural flavor. Tunxi Old Street is a great place to buy the Four Treasures of the Study. There are many Sheyan shops in the form of front shops and back factories on Tunxi Old Street, where you can not only purchase inkstones but also learn about their production process. There are also many shops selling calligraphy brushes, just like Huizhou ink, Huizhou brushes are also easy to carry and an excellent souvenir for calligraphy enthusiasts.
Tunxi Ancient Street 屯溪古街 It is a wonderful place to do shopping for tourists. Stores in this street mainly deal with the elegant art wares, native products and some tourist souvenirs.
The traditional art wares are the four treasures of the study, Hui (Huizhou) Ink and She (Shexian) Inkstone. Folk arts including brick carving, stone carving, wood carving and bamboo carving, also the miniature gardens of Hui style and the jumped-up bamboo articles and furniture are all characterized with and decorated with local art flavor. Also you can buy some local specialty of mushroom, glossy ganoderma (a kind of precious Chinese medicine grow on cliff), loquat, Chinese gooseberry (a kind of popular fruit in China with abundant vitamins), tribute chrysanthemum and wild walnut. Remember to buy some dry bamboo shoot; the tine of the bamboo shoot is the best.
Besides the local flavor, there are several super markets and marketplaces in Tunxi District for your patronage.