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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 133

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:54:07 PM


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In Yanjing, the earliest antique ghost market appeared in Yanbao oblique street outside Di'an gate in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At that time, when the country was in crisis, let alone the people were miserable, even those children of the eight banners or rich families were in constant panic. Some things that seem to be seriously illegal in modern times became more and more rampant in that era. Like grave robbers.

At that time, many people traded antiques in the cigarette bag oblique street outside Di'an gate before dawn, because many treasures were sold by rich children or grave robbers. The former was afraid of losing their ancestors' face, while the latter was afraid of lawsuits. They all went to the market to sell things in the dark, so they were called "ghost market".

Later, with the increasing turbulence of social order, there were more ghost cities in Yanjing, but most of these ghost cities appeared outside 49 cities, such as the old eight ghost cities mentioned earlier.

Of course, in addition to the ghost market, there was no antique market for the eight classics of Zhenger in Yanjing before liberation. For example, Liulichang, Fulong temple and old Dong'an Market formed in the early Qing Dynasty are all antique markets for the eight classics of Zhenger.

However, after liberation, antiques as a special commodity was "banned" by the state. The industrial policy of "public-private partnership" gradually made many private antique shops fade out of the market. The treasures scattered among the people were called "three unification" under the policy of unified acquisition, unified pricing and unified sales by the state, forming a situation in which state-owned cultural relics stores dominate the world. At that time, Yanjing city was regarded as a formal antique collection market, and it was only a dozen cultural relics stores. For example, Yanjing cultural relics store at that time specialized in antique treasures, while Huaxia Bookstore specialized in ancient books, calligraphy and painting, old books, etc.

There is no doubt that in the circulation of domestic antique collections, state-owned cultural relics stores have occupied the position of the main communication channel and played a very important role in preventing the loss of cultural relics, rescuing precious cultural relics and obtaining foreign exchange.

However, we have to see that this special "channel" is also in the state of "self-supporting behind closed doors". For a long time, it is often only open to foreign guests, while Chinese people can not become buyers, which has greatly affected the overall healthy development of China's stationery market. At that time, some radical antique collectors in China were willing to take the risk of "breaking the law" and went to the people alone.

So in this case, the "ghost city", which had disappeared for a long time, appeared again.

During the period from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the purchase and sale of antiques were in a tangled situation of illegality and legality, and most of the antiques business was carried out underground and semi underground. In the late 1970s, Yanjing Longtan Park formed a large-scale bird market. In addition to selling birds, it also began to sell old bird cages, old cage catches, old bird bars, etc. The most typical can be called antiques is the bird food cans of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, among which there are many high-quality products. It is said that at that time, a Qianlong blue and white bird food can only sold for 50 yuan at most! However, due to the existence of such transactions, Longtan Lake bird market has been checked by the Public Security Bureau and the Cultural Relics Bureau for many times.

At that time, there was a very strange phenomenon, that is, the countryside around Yanjing suddenly began to become active. For example, at that time, farmers in X county and other places in Hebei province carried two large baskets on their bicycles, loaded with old porcelain collected from ten miles and eight townships, and set out in teams in the middle of the night to deliver goods to cultural relics stores such as Di'anmen and Hufang bridge. The "motorcade" came early. These shops haven't opened yet, and a long line has been lined up at the door. Next to these teams, a group of city people often chat with farmers. These are the "pioneers" of Chinese antiques.

At that time, when the cultural relics store received the goods, the price was very low. A pair of "300" porcelain bottles - at that time, people often called a kind of large porcelain bottle with a skimmed mouth, sliding shoulders, double ears and a height of about 1.48 meters to 1.50 meters as 300 large bottles, and the price ranged from a few yuan to more than ten yuan (isn't it very cheap? It's really cheap. Although most of the 300 porcelain bottles were made after Daoguang and even in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, it's unimaginable that a pair of such large bottles cost only about ten yuan!), the purchase conditions are also very harsh. If they are slightly disabled, they will be rejected. And those "pioneers" outside the door Most of the earliest antique merchants in Yanjing remember the era of "chasing big baskets", which should be regarded as the "prehistoric period" of Yanjing modern antique market.

The antique market in Yanjing has a tradition that the antique business is mixed with the sale of daily used second-hand goods. It is a "ghost market" before liberation That's the situation. Also in the early 1980s, a second-hand goods market was formed at the north gate of Xuanwu Park and opened every Thursday. At that time, Yanjing had a rest according to the District, and Xuanwu District had a rest on Thursday. The whole street was full of second-hand goods, including bicycle parts and daily necessities, as well as antique stalls.

By the mid-1980s, the volume of antique art transactions had increased greatly, so there were several noteworthy antique markets in Yanjing. First, because the managers squeezed the antique market in Xuanwu Park, the antique merchants were forced to move north and gather in the west of Guohua shopping mall in Changchun Street. At first, this market was mixed with the miscellaneous place of selling vegetables, but later it crowded away the vegetable stalls, which had a considerable scale. At that time In order to prevent being checked, the stall operators spread a piece of cloth on the ground with several things on it. As soon as the wind blows, they grasp the four corners of the cloth, lift it up and run away.

Almost at the same time, there was also an antique market in the drum tower, which was adjacent to the stalls selling snacks such as fried tripes. Soon there was a qualitative leap. The market set up a special shed, and the antique stall became an antique shop. However, this market has been open for several years, but it has not been officially approved by the cultural relics department.

At about this time, due to market management and other reasons, antique dealers suddenly came to a "crusade", almost collectively moving eastward to shabanzhuang in CY District, a place full of weeds, that is, the original site of Yanjing antique city. Before and after this, a market also appeared on a soil slope a stone's throw from the northwest of shabanzhuang, which is the predecessor of the current Panjiayuan market.

At that time, vendors from other places came here every Sunday with baskets and sacks on their backs, and the market scale soon developed. Shapanzhuang and Panjiayuan echo each other from afar, marking a new stage in the development of Beijing antique market. At this time, the government's regulatory authorities have basically recognized the legitimacy of the market from blindly checking to taking advantage of the situation.

Then, shapanzhuang has become Yanjing Antique City, while Panjiayuan has developed into the largest antique and second-hand goods distribution center in China, attracting 60000 or 70000 Taobao Taobao and tourists to visit here every day, including more than 10000 foreigners.

PS: bow and thank "Ziyan Tianjiao" for the reward of 200.

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