Happy Tycoon

In Yanjing, the earliest ghost market for antiques appeared in Yandai Xiejie outside Di'anmen in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. At that time, when the country was in crisis, let alone the common people, even those children from the Eight Banners or rich families were in constant panic. And some things that seem to be seriously illegal in modern times were more and more rampant in that era. Like grave robbers.

In those days, on the Yandai Xie Street outside Di’anmen, many people traded antiques before dawn, because many treasures were sold by rich children or tomb robbers. The former were afraid of losing face to their ancestors, while the latter were afraid of lawsuits. , They all go to the market to sell things in the dark, so they are called ghost markets.

Later, as the social order became more and more turbulent, there were more ghost markets in Yanjing, but most of these ghost markets appeared outside Sijiu City, such as the old eight ghost markets mentioned before.

Of course, in addition to the ghost market, there were not no antique markets in Yanjing before liberation, such as the Liulichang formed in the early Qing Dynasty, Fulong Temple, and the old Dong’an market. Bajing's antique market.

However, after liberation, antiques were banned by the state as a special commodity, and the industry policy of public-private partnership made many private antique shops gradually fade out of the market. Under the policy of unified purchase, unified pricing and unified sales by the state, the situation of state-owned cultural relics stores dominating the world has been formed. At that time, there were only a dozen or so cultural relic stores in Yanjing City, which could be regarded as a formal antique collection market.

Undoubtedly, in the circulation of domestic antique collections, state-owned cultural relic stores have occupied the position of the main communication channel, and have played a very important role in preventing the loss of cultural relics, rescuing precious cultural relics, and obtaining foreign exchange.

But we have to see that this special channel is also in a state of closed doors and self-operated. For a long period of time, it is often only open to foreign guests, and Chinese people cannot become buyers. It has affected the overall healthy development of my country's culture and entertainment market. At that time, some radical antique collectors in China had no choice but to take the risk of breaking the law and go to the private sector to purchase alone.

So under such circumstances, the ghost market that had disappeared for a long time reappeared.

During the period from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the buying and selling of antiques was in a state of entanglement between illegality and legality, and most of the antique business was carried out underground and semi-underground. For example, in the late 1970s, a large-scale bird market was formed in Yanjing Longtan Park. In addition to selling birds, it also began to sell old bird cages, old cage catches, and old bird bars. The most typical ones that can be called antiques are bird food jars from the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, among which there are many exquisite ones. It is said that at that time, a Qianlong blue and white bird food jar sold for 50 yuan at most! However, it is precisely because of the existence of this kind of business that the Longtan Lake Bird Market has been inspected many times by the Public Security Bureau and the Cultural Relics Bureau.

And in that era, there was also a very strange phenomenon, that is, the countryside around Yanjing suddenly became active. For example, in that era, farmers in Xiong County, Hebei Province and other places used bicycles to carry two large baskets filled with old porcelain collected from ten miles and eight towns, and set off in groups of ten and eight in the middle of the night to Di'anmen and Hufang. Bridge and other cultural relics store delivery. The convoy came early, before these stores opened, and there was already a long queue at the door. Next to these teams, a group of urbanites are often nearby to strike up a conversation and chat with the peasants. These are the pioneers of China's antiques.

At that time, the cultural relics store received the goods, and the bid was very low. A pair of three hundred porcelain vases - at that time, people often called a large porcelain vase with a curled mouth, slipped shoulders, double ears, and a height of about 1.48 meters to 1.50 meters. There are 300 large vases, and the price ranges from a few yuan to more than ten yuan (is it very cheap? Really cheap, although most of the 300 porcelain vases are from the late Qing Dynasty or the early Republic of China, but such a big one Bottles, a pair only costs about ten yuan, which is really unimaginable!), and the purchase conditions are also very strict, even if there is a slight disability, it will be rejected. And those pioneers outside the door waited for the opportunity to negotiate prices and intercept the goods that farmers could not sell. Most of the earliest batch of antique dealers in Yanjing remember the era of chasing big baskets, which should be regarded as the prehistoric of Yanjing's modern antique market.

The antique market in Yanjing has always had a tradition, that is, the business of antiques is mixed with the sale of daily-use second-hand goods. This was the case in the ghost market before liberation. Also in the early 1980s, a flea market was formed at the north gate of Xuanwu Park, and it opened every Thursday. Because at that time Yanjing was closed by districts, and Xuanwu District was closed on Thursdays. The whole street is full of second-hand goods, including bicycle parts, daily sundries, and antique stalls are also mixed in.

By the mid-1980s, the trading volume of antiques and artworks increased significantly, and several noteworthy antique markets appeared in Yanjing. First of all, due to the squeeze of the administrators on the Xuanwu Park antique market, the antique dealers were forced to move northward and gather on the west side of Guohua Shopping Center on Changchun Street. This market was originally a mixed place for selling vegetables, but later it squeezed out the vegetable stalls, and it has a considerable scale. At that time, in order to prevent being confiscated, those who set up stalls spread a piece of cloth on the ground and put a few things on it. If there was any trouble, they would grab the four corners of the cloth and run away.

Almost at the same time, an antique market also appeared in Gulou, which was adjacent to stalls selling snacks such as fried belly. Soon there was a qualitative leap, the market set up special sheds, and antique stalls became antique shops. However, this market has been open for several years, but has never been officially approved by the cultural relics department.

At about this time, due to market management and other reasons, the antique dealers suddenly came to a crusade, and almost collectively moved eastward to Shabanzhuang, Chaoyang District, a place full of weeds. , which is the original site of the current Yanjing Antique City. Around this time, a market also appeared on a soil slope a stone’s throw away from the northwest of Shaban Village, which was the predecessor of the current Panjiayuan Market.

At that time, street vendors from other places carried baskets and sacks and set up stalls here every Sunday, and the scale of the market soon developed. Shabanzhuang and Panjiayuan echo each other, marking the development of the BJ antique market to a new stage. At this time, the government's supervisory department has also changed from blindly checking to making the best use of the situation, basically acknowledging the legitimacy of the market.

Then, Shabanzhuang became the Yanjing Antique City, and Panjiayuan developed into the largest antique and second-hand goods distribution center in the country, attracting 60,000 to 70,000 treasure hunters and tourists to visit here every day, and more than one of them Wan's foreigners.

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