In the early morning, as soon as the sky in Yanjing was bright, a yellow Jinmen Dafa slowly drove out from the door of the guest house.

Just past a pit, I heard two muffled sounds from the Daihatsu car, "Bang! bang!"

Li Qiming and Wu Maocai couldn't even cover their heads, looked at Fang Chen in disbelief, and shouted in surprise: "You really know how to drive." ”

"Just kidding, I didn't show you yesterday, Brother Zhao agrees that my driving skills are good. ”

As he spoke, Fang Chen tapped the steering wheel to the left, skillfully lowered the gear to second gear, and stepped on the accelerator suddenly, instantly overtaking a small agricultural three-wheeler next to him.

What a joke, he is a veteran driver with more than 20 years of experience, how can he not drive?

Yesterday afternoon on the path at the entrance of the guest house, Fang Chen had already performed a few times, although it was just the usual reverse warehouse and side parking, but it was enough to make Li Qiming and Wu Maocai shocked, in their opinion, it was already a great ability to start the car.

Brother Zhao on the side, although he wondered why Fang Chen was so skilled, he was still very sure of Fang Chen's driving skills.

Fang Chen drove this big hair like a fish in water on the avenues of Yanjing freely, and he didn't know if he would leave another legend of the magic car on the streets of Yanjing.

This Dafa, Fang Chen felt that it was still very good, except for the rearview mirror adjustment and breaking, the car was cold and the car was on the face, the pit was basically upside down, the engine was a little shaky, the start was more meaty, and it was hot when parking, basically there was no big problem.

For a manual transmission, 0.85 displacement of the three-cylinder engine, Daihatsu has handed over a very satisfactory answer.

As for why there is no air conditioning, whose 0.85 displacement car cannot be equipped with air conditioning after pulling 6 people and a bicycle.

Because after installing the air conditioner, he stopped leaving and went on strike......

After arriving at Liulichang, Li Qiming and Wu Maocai jumped out of the car excitedly with blue noses and swollen faces.

Looking at the miserable appearance of the two of them, Fang Chen grinned, this big hair is really not an ordinary bump, it is not the originator of the god car, the shock absorption of the whole car is steel plate shock absorption, it is outrageously hard, if there is not a roof, people can be thrown out on the road.

But if it weren't for that, it wouldn't have been able to pull away nearly a ton of walnuts.

Fang Chen raised his eyes and looked around, such as Huaiyin Mountain House, Rugu Zhai, Guyi Zhai, Ruicheng Zhai, Cuiwen Pavilion, Yide Pavilion, Li Fushou Bizhuang and other hundreds of years of old shops are lined up one by one in Liulichang, this is only 800 meters long on the trail.

In later generations, the famous Yanjing three major antique markets, Panjiayuan, Liulichang, Baoguo Temple.

Baoguo Temple is the oldest, built in the Liao Dynasty, there is a book market at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, but because it is the oldest, it is the most dilapidated.

Later, the most famous Pan Jiayuan has not yet opened the market, but there are already scattered people who set up stalls there to sell old things, and it will not until two years later that it will slowly form a scale and finally be known.

Therefore, the only thing Fang Chen can come to is Liuli Factory.

Liulichang originated in the Qing Dynasty, when most of the people who came to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination lived in this area, so there were many shops selling books and pen, ink, paper and inkstone here, forming a strong cultural atmosphere.

Originally, it was divided into East and West Liuli Factory, but after years of war, the West Liuli Factory no longer exists, and the original three major bookstores of the West Liuli Factory - the Commercial Press, Zhonghua Book Company, and the World Book Company have also migrated.

The West Glaze Factory is famous for its books, while the East Glaze Factory is famous for its paintings.

One of the most famous is Rong Bao Zhai, during the Republic of China, the older generation of calligraphers and painters such as Yu Youren, Zhang Daqian, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, etc. are also frequent visitors here.

Rong Bao Zhai is most famous for copying calligraphy and painting, which has reached the pinnacle, resembling the original, enough to be fake.

Rong Bao Zhai's copied masterpieces such as "Wenyuan Map", "Qingming Riverside Map", etc., have been exhibited in many countries, causing countless famous artists to marvel, and enjoy a high reputation in the world. Even when Mr. Qi Baishi was alive, he could barely distinguish which one was his original and which one was a copy.

In addition to the paintings of Rong Bao Zhai, Dai Yuexuan's pen, the paper of the Qing Secret Pavilion, the ink of the Yide Pavilion, the restoration of the Ancient Pavilion, and the imitation of antiques are the treasures of the town street of the Liuli Factory, each of which has a history of more than 100 years.

In addition to the storefronts on both sides, Fang Chen had already seen some people setting up stalls, selling things that were real or fake, and they were innumerable.

Old books and periodicals, agate jade, ceramics, Chinese and foreign coins, bamboo, wood and bone carvings, shadow puppet masks, Buddhist tokens, national costumes, stamps, etc.

All of the above are part of the Chinese of cultural play, and there are naturally a lot of plays.

What is play?

Walnuts, bird cages, fans, gourds.

This was called Siya by the literati of the court and the opposition during the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, fighting crickets, cockfighting, walking dogs, boiling eagles, raising birds, raising fish, etc. are all counted as play.

There are even more folk people who play walnuts, martial artists turn iron balls, rich people carry gourds, and idlers go to walk dogs, and walnuts are in the first place.

Wenwan walnut is also known as palm beads, in ancient times called kneading hand walnut, traceable, it originated in the Han and Sui dynasties, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties, and prevailed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the long history of more than 2,000 years, it has been passed down and formed a unique Chinese walnut culture in the world. Throughout the ages, from emperors and generals, talented and beautiful women, to officials and eunuchs, and ordinary people, they are all proud of having a pair of exquisite, bright walnuts.

Especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, playing walnuts reached its heyday. Emperor Zhu Youxiao of Tomorrow not only played with walnuts, but also carved walnuts himself. Therefore, there is a wild history of "playing walnuts and forgetting state affairs, and Zhu is operated by the school's imperial case" to spread among the people.

Qianlong himself likes to be elegant and ancient, and the natural wildness bred by the texture and color of walnuts, and the sound of gold and stone after a long time of playing is very temperamental to him, so he is particularly fond of rubbing walnuts. It is rumored that he once wrote a poem, "The sun and the moon rotate in the palm of your hand, and time wants to go back." The blood is surging all over the body, when is it a white head?"

Pu Yi also mentioned walnuts in the book "The First Half of My Life", which included "In the treasury behind the Yangxin Palace, I also found a lot of interesting treasure boxes, which are said to be Qianlong's playthings...... The treasure box is made of rosewood, and one of the compartments contains several pairs of brown-red walnuts and a walnut carved with stories of ancient characters. ”

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the wind of playing walnuts was better than in the past, and the folk songs at that time were: "Walnuts do not leave their hands, they can live eighty-nine, more than Qianlong Ye, and the king of Hades can't call them away!"

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, including after the establishment of New China, there were years of war and turmoil.

As the so-called prosperous antiques, gold in troubled times, in troubled times, the business of antique cultural toys naturally plummeted, and walnuts were no exception.

After the 70s, with the stability of the country and the prosperity of the common people, antique cultural toys bloomed with new vitality.

In the 70s, a pair of good-looking, unused dwarf stake lion heads were worth a few dollars, in the 80s they were worth dozens of yuan, and in the 90s, they were worth hundreds of dollars.

After 2010, it has reached hundreds of thousands of yuan, almost increasing tenfold every ten years.