The modern and pleasantly laid town of Tunxi is more widely known as Huangshan City, named so after the major tourist attraction to which it serves as a transportation and accommodation hub. It has a very well restored old quarter, which in fact is a very long pedestrianised street with scores of back lanes lined with fine local Anhui style houses and all sorts of craft, curios and tea shops.
Many of them specialise in calligraphic scrolls and related paraphernalia for Tunxi City has been since long ago widely renown in China for its skilled calligraphers. It comes as no surprise that world's largest inkstone, weighing over 12 metric tons, is housed in a museum here.
Another merchandise prominently featured in the Old Town is fine green tea grown in the adjacent mountains. Some sorts are so prized that jars of those are used as state gifts to foreign dignitaries. We bought a bag of the same tea that Chinese President presented to Vladimir Putin on his state visit. Local tea is equally popular with more regular folks - from dawn till very late busloads upon busloads of Chinese tourists descend upon the street all walking away with shopping bags full of tea tins.***
Huangshan - Mountain Range From A Classical Chinese Poem >>>
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