There are many specialties in Hunan, and the ones that are easy to take away include:

One, Hunan embroidery

In 2006, Hunan embroidery was selected as one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Xiang embroidery, along with Suzhou embroidery, Shu embroidery and Cantonese embroidery, is one of the four famous embroideries in China, and there are traditionally seventy-two kinds of stitches in Xiang embroidery. Since 2011, we have been paying more and more attention to it, but with the decrease of embroidery talent, the quality of Xiang embroidery work is getting less and less, and the price is getting higher and higher.

Second, Anhua black tea

Anhua black tea using Hunan Xuefeng mountain tea area of the large-leafed group varieties as raw materials, after killing, kneading, Wo heap, pine wood fire drying and other four major technology processing and become. With dry tea color black brown oily, taste mellow or slightly astringent, soup color red bright bright, slightly unique pine smoke aroma character. It is also a must-have product for business trips and travel to Hunan.

Three, stinky tofu

Changsha stinky tofu, Changsha locals also known as stinky dry son. Unlike stinky tofu in other places, which is black in color and smells strange at first, Changsha's stinky tofu is the most suitable for the word "stinky tofu", but once tasted, you can't get enough of its deliciousness.

The color is burnt, the outside is burnt and the inside is tender, fresh and spicy. Crispy and not mushy, tender and not greasy, the first smell of the stench of the nose, the smell of the aroma tantalizing, with the freshness of the white tofu, deep-fried tofu aroma of the crunchy. Stinky tofu is also stinky and fragrant characteristics, once tasted often people can not stop, a taste for fast, so there is a taste of the infamous stinky tofu, three days do not know the taste of meat of the famous name.

Stinky tofu is made from high-quality soybeans, which can be used to benefit qi, harmonize the spleen and stomach, eliminate flatulence and pain, clear away heat and blood, and bring down the turbid qi in the large intestine. However, the production process of stinky tofu not only produces certain corruptive substances, but also susceptible to bacterial contamination, from a health point of view, should not be consumed excessively. If you need to give a gift, you can choose a vacuum-packed, the Palace of Fire as well as the black classic these famous stinky tofu brand are sold.

Four, chopped chili

Chopped chili, also known as chopped chili, altar chili, is a Hunan specialty food. Can be used as a meal, out of the altar that is eaten, can also be used as a condiment to do dishes. The flavor is spicy, fresh and salty, and the taste is heavy. Authentic Hunan chopped chili has less water, dark red color and not sour taste.

In western Hunan, especially in southwestern Hunan, chopped chili peppers with local characteristics of the sour taste, because the people of western Hunan "no acid does not enter the mouth", so the chopped chili peppers in these places are "sour chopped chili". Now popular with green chili made of chopped chili, its spicy taste than red chili made of better, especially to do "chopped pepper fish head", green chopped chili is often better than red chopped chili.

In Hunan, many people make their own chopped chili peppers, with clay pots and other persistent as well as storage. If you want to bring far over to send people to choose a small jar is appropriate, most of the plastic material, more convenient transportation. Purchase in addition to the supermarket to buy brand chopped pepper, you can also find in the streets and alleys to sell bulk chopped pepper workshop, they will be packed in small jars, buy a jar, will be able to taste the authentic flavor of chopped pepper.

Five, Phoenix ginger candy

Ginger candy is a traditional Phoenix exclusive specialty, originated in the Qing Dynasty during the Qianlong period, so far has a history of more than two hundred years. Good ginger candy is uniform in size, shiny in color, sweet, crisp, thick and fragrant after entering the mouth, with no abnormal taste. It is not as sweet and greasy as candy, nor is it as spicy and breathless as ginger. Slightly sweet and just the right amount of spiciness, it is lip-smacking and has a long aftertaste.

The main thing you need to know about ginger candies is whether they are spicy. If so, then certainly used chili water, because the authentic Hunan ginger candy spicy flavor is slowly back to the throat, rather than the more spicy the better (spicy tongue), there is also chewing to be crunchy, can not be sticking to the teeth, sticking to the teeth and so on you buy back in the car melted away.

Six, ring tea

Ring tea originated in Hunan Taoyuan County, Ma Shi Village, also known as the Sansheng soup, started in Han, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Mainly circulated in Hunan Changde, Yiyang and other places. Generally use rice, peanuts, sesame, mung beans, salt, tea, cangzhi, ginger and other raw materials, pounded into a paste with the bowl, punch boiling water and even, plus fried rice, fragrant and delicious.

Can be added such as fine leaves of money, mugwort leaves, small leaves of the guest food bowl (horseshoe gold), class bamboo shoots vegetables (chestnut), yellow flowers, mint, etc., with the tea together with the ringing of references. Ingredients in the easy to cook, chopped, put into the bowl by boiling water; hard to cook, put into the pot to cook, with boiling water into the bowl.

Rolling tea is generally used as a daily drink, but can also be used for medicinal purposes, has the effect of dispelling wind and cold, eliminating summer heat, clearing fire and detoxification.

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Famous tourist attractions in Hunan Province: Yueyang Tower, Dongting Lake, Yuelu Academy, Tianxin Pavilion, Phoenix Ancient City, Orange Island, Shaoshan Mao Zedong's former residence, and another Hengshan Mountain, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and so on.