Hengyang Shopping
Nanyue Town, or the South Mountain Town, has long been a producer of various local products, which are excellent souvenirs for visitors. The bamboo carvings finely done in bamboo sticks or bamboo roots, are usually decorated with exquisite patterns showing plants, animals and figures; while the bamboo woven articles serve as household utensils as well as decorative objects On religious days, the town is turned into a museum of pilgrims' necessities, such as clay figurines ings, palm bowls and egg-shell basins With its favorable conditions, the South Mountain is a unique producing area of Cloud and Mist Tea, which was offered as tribute to the imperial family as early as the Tang dynasty(618-907) ow it mainly grows in the de Relief Temple ep valleys near the Iron Buddha Temple, the Canopy Peak and the Bamboo shoot harvested around the 29th day of the first lunar month( the birthday of Goddes of Mercy) is a mouth-watering delicacy. It is usually half done and then preserved in tea-seed oil in earthen jars for a certain period of time. The longer it is preserved. the sweeter it tastes. The kiwi fruit here, the so-called"fruit of wild fruits", is rather nutritious. Its therapeutic functions are even recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica by Li Shizhen(1518-1593), a renowned pharmacist in the Ming dy y(1368-1644)
