Famous local products-Changsha

The Pedestrian Street in Huangxing Road, which starts from Simenkou in the north and ends at Nanmenkou in the south, is a street integrating shopping, leisure, recreation, restaurants and tourism. With a large number of shops and crowded with customers, the pedestrian street is full of modern flavor. It is a good place for shopping as well as a window for people to understand Changsha. Here you can purchase many traditional local specialties in Changsha such as Hunan embroidery, chrysanthemum stone carving and red porcelain.

Hunan embroidery

As one of China's four famous styles of embroidery, Hunan embroidery has a history of over 2,000 years. Through various colors of threads and changeable stitches, Hunan embroidery is famous for its vivid and lifelike embroidery patterns such as figures, animals, landscapes, flowers and birds. The most famed works of Hunan embroidery are the hanging panels of Tigers, Lions and Birds Adoring the Phoenix.

Chrysanthemum stone carving Carved

out of chrysanthemum stone materials, the ink slabs, small animals, vases, tea sets and smoking sets display the high folk stone-carving techniques of Hunan province. The famous stone works include Ode to the Plum Blossom by Huang Chao, and a Fairy Spreading Flowers. Red porcelain Known as "the red under the glaze", red porcelain takes red as the main color and is decorated with beautiful patterns made of gold and other precious metals. The red porcelain is noble, elegant and refined.