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Shopping in Huangshan

Huangshan City is small city not as modern as the metropolis, but the shopping always is an important link in traveling as the small city boast of varieties of locally made goods. The followings are the maijor goods with high reputation.

Treasures of the Study of Anhui

In Huangshan, the most popular things to buy are "the four treasures of the study", including paper, ink stick, writing brush and ink slab. Shexian County produces one of the nation's best-known ink slabs, and is also known for its ink sticks, the best of which are produced in the old Hukaiwen Store. The xuan paper produced in Jingxian County is the best material available for traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, and the xuan writing brushes are also marked for their superb quality. If you are a Chinese art lover, don't forget to take some of these stuffs back home.

Huangshan Lock Kiosk

When you are on the Huangshan Mountain, you can buy a lock if you want to impress your sweetheart with this tacky reminder of your Huangshan romance. You can get anything engraved on it but the engraver might not be able to translate foreign names. This might be an opportune time to get a Chinese name if you don't already have one. Then put the lock on the safe chain beside the steps and throw the key into the deep valley. It means your heart and your lover's are locked together for fever.

Huangshan Maofeng Tea

Mt. Huangshan is a famous tea producing area in China. The soil quality, weather, temperature, and degree of humidifies of the Yellow Mountain are very suit to the growth of the tea trees. Tea from this area is well known overseas and Huangshan tea is famed for the quality. Huangshan Maofeng is regarded as the top ten green-tea of China.

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