What is better to buy in Fenghuang Ancient City?

When you buy these things, you can go to the "Folk Craft Street". The shops on both sides of the street are full of folk characteristics of Xiangxi. There are many native products, such as bracken, mountain bamboo shoots, Toona sinensis, natural pine mushroom oil, chicken ears and other wild vegetables, dried boletus, dried beancurd, eggplant, bracken, dried bamboo shoots, dried Toona sinensis, dried bitter gourd, dried pepper and other dry goods, as well as preserved suckling pigs, Miao bacon, Miao sour fish, special beef jerky, sour beans and spicy Toona sinensis with Xiangxi characteristics.

Phoenix century-old store: Phoenix's most famous ginger candy, a century-old store, visited Zhang, Liu, Xiong and Jia. Among them, Zhang is the most famous! Zhanglaodian Jiangtang is located at Zhongying Street 12 in the ancient city, adjacent to Shen Congwen's former residence, and at the corner of 10 meters after arriving at Shen Congwen's former residence.

Ginger sugar, a special product of Phoenix, is refined by ancestral secret recipe and folk craft. It has the effects of dispelling cold, moistening lung, warming stomach, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Economic and practical, easy to carry. It is a rare local specialty, health food and gift during the trip. Anyone who has been to Phoenix knows that workshops selling ginger candy can be seen everywhere in the ancient city of Phoenix, and people can enjoy the scene of making ginger candy at any time, which can be described as feast their eyes. The famous ginger candy workshops in Phoenix are: Liu's ginger candy, Zhang's ginger candy, Jia's ginger candy and so on. , all have their own characteristics. Ginger sugar can be roughly divided into light taste made of white sugar, rock sugar, walnut powder, mint and a little ginger and strong taste made of more ginger, walnut powder and brown sugar. Pay special attention to the shelf life and packaging when buying ginger candy. The shelf life of bulk ginger candy is one or two days. If you want to buy it home or give it to your friends, you should buy ginger candy in a sealed package. If it is wrapped in tin foil, the warranty period is four months Small package (including four small bags) 5 yuan/bag; Gift box large package (40 small bags) 58 yuan/box.

Walking in Gucheng Street, you have to be attracted by all kinds of folk handicrafts here. Brocade, batik, tie-dyeing and silverware here have unique craftsmanship, strong local characteristics and high artistic value.

Phoenix batik: Phoenix batik is primitive and divided into two schools: one is Tujia batik printed cloth; One is Miao batik homespun. Tujia batik printing pays attention to pure color matching and composition, and the cloth formed is colorful, with unique and pure artistic style and outstanding ironing process characteristics; Miao batik homespun pays attention to pure dyeing, not gorgeous carving, giving people a natural and pure artistic sense, and its outstanding technological feature is cool color. Batik works can be seen everywhere in the ancient city. Generally, batik cloth is rich in color, one is about 20 yuan; Batik homespun, painted by craftsmen with wax, the color is limited to white and blue, and a small work is about 20-40 yuan; Phoenix batik T-shirts popular in summer (15-20 yuan/piece); The collection and artistic value of works by master folk craftsmen are relatively high, and the price is relatively expensive (ranging from 400-800 yuan/piece). Xiong Chengzao and Liu Dapao have made great achievements in batik works.

Phoenix tie-dyeing: Tie-dyeing can be called the sister art of batik, but its special technological performance is more prominent in the production of manual tie-dyeing. Tie patterns, birds, insects, fish and other different images on pure white smooth cloth with white thread, soak them in the blue energy solution prepared in advance, put them in a ventilated and light-transmissive place to dry the string, and then vivid images will appear in front of your eyes. Finally, do some technical treatment to prevent the foot from falling off, and the whole process is completed. Tie-dyeing is generally more expensive than batik. Small tie-dyed works, such as headscarves (3- 10 yuan/piece) and larger tie-dyed square towels (50-70 yuan). The works of Wu Huahua and Zhang Guiying, famous tie-dyeing teachers, are of high artistic value, ranging from 70 to 600 yuan.

Phoenix silverware: There are many silverware in the ancient city, with exquisite workmanship and diverse styles. The silver ornaments here are divided into old silver and new silver. Old silver is collected from the people, and it has strong folk characteristics in both workmanship and design. Generally speaking, Miao silver ornaments are the mainstay here, and such silverware is more expensive. New silver, modern processing design, has a standard silver content, because the style and workmanship are different, and the price is different. 3 yuan/gram, 8 yuan/gram, 10 yuan/gram by weight and 15-60 yuan/piece by piece. Generally speaking, it is more cost-effective to calculate by piece.

There are also some folk handicrafts, such as folk paper-cutting (there is an old paper-cutting artist next to Hongqiao), and the price is determined according to the complexity of the pattern (2 yuan, 3 yuan, 5 yuan, etc.). ). Woven Ribbon, Narrow Machine Woven 5-7 yuan, Hand Woven 15-20 yuan; Wide mechanical knitting 10- 15 yuan, hand knitting 25-40 yuan. .