Chapter 540: River Fair
Came to the hotel arranged by Sister Yuan, put away the luggage and belongings, and everyone set off immediately to participate in today's river antique fair, which was told by Hu Yang before coming.
That's right, it's an antique fair on the river, held on an ancient building boat, which floats on the ancient canal.
This kind of trade fair is not something that can be done casually, and someone needs to recommend it. Although it is not a membership system, you have to pay a fee to get on the boat, whether it is to go up to sell things, buy things, or simply visit.
Yu Ge, a jade carving master, told Hu Yang that although Yangzhou is also a historical city with many traditional handicraft industries, the antique market is not very prosperous.
Previously, there was also a dedicated antique city, but it was later demolished.
Nowadays, the more professional antique market is only the Zhun Ti Temple antique market.
"Tianning Temple used to have it, but it was moved later and turned into a Buddhist museum. There is a part of the flower and bird market, but there are not many of them, and they are not large-scale. Brother Yu said.
He is a jade carver, and he is naturally no stranger to antiques, and he will definitely go to the antique market, so he knows the local situation better.
"It's so strange!" Andy couldn't help but say.
Ah Hao, who has a dream of professional basketball, asked, "What's strange?"
"Why do many antique markets choose to be around the temple?" Andy said he wondered.
This resonated with everyone immediately, and it seems that this is really the case, which is indeed a strange phenomenon.
"Normally, the temple gives people the feeling of having cultural heritage, which is in line with the connotation of antiques, and everyone must choose to bring things around to sell, and then form a market.
In addition, the temple site is relatively large, and there are usually squares and open spaces around it, which also provides a place for trading. Hu Yang explained.
To tell the truth, Buddhism in China seems to have no restrictions on the use of land, and it has been a crazy enclosure from ancient times to the present.
In Hu Yang's view, Buddhism is no different from a greedy landlord. In ancient times, they even had their own farmland, and there were so many of them that they didn't have to pay taxes.
The monks themselves did not produce, and many of them hired a large number of peasants to plough the land for their own pleasure.
In serious cases, the phenomenon of indiscriminate occupation of farmland by temples even affects the development of a society and a country. It is said that during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the fields of some temples even reached a terrible level, and Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty later carried out a large-scale campaign to destroy and ban Buddha.
In addition, everyone must have heard of some temple usury.
To be honest, Buddhism is thriving in China, but it doesn't have a very good reputation. A group of fake monks pretend to recite sutras, ostensibly compassionate, but in fact it is difficult to say.
Of course, there are indeed those eminent monks who are worthy of respect. But there are thousands of monks, and how many good birds are there?
When they came to the edge of the ancient canal, they saw a huge building ship with two or three floors. By the river, there is a special boat to pick you up, and if you pay for the boat, the boat will pick you up to the boat.
The cost per person is 100 yuan, which makes the audience in the live broadcast room speechless.
Admission to many tourist attractions doesn't cost 100 yuan! These people really make money. In this way, the so-called river antique fair is destined to not be very big.
However, one thing is for sure, there should be some treasures on it, otherwise who would want to pay this hundred yuan to try their luck?
Sister Yuan has been holding Populus Hu's hand like this, and people who don't know still think that she is Populus Hu's female companion.
This rich woman was also angry with the female fans in the live broadcast room, so she simply didn't do anything, and made such an intimate move directly, and she also wanted to be angry with the group of lemon essence in the live broadcast room.
"Let you continue to scold, I will go to the room to find him at night, what can you do?" Sister Yuan said deliberately.
Hu Yang was taken aback by her words, and turned his head suddenly: "Sister Yuan, don't be joking, okay? Okay, everyone stop, I will protect myself." ”
The audience in the live broadcast room suddenly burst into laughter: The boy is outside, he must learn to protect himself!
"Sister Yuan, I don't lock the door when I sleep at night, look for me. ”
"Come on, just like you, you still need to lock the door when you sleep?"
"Alas, I really want Sister Yuan to knock on the door in the middle of the night, envy Brother Hu!"
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Sister Yuan rolled her eyes and twisted the poplar: "What is there to explain to them? As if I don't move you, they will have a chance." ”
Andy, Xu Hong, Brother Yu and others couldn't cry or laugh, especially Xu Hong, whose eyes were still a little meaningful.
He is in the entertainment industry, and he has long been surprised by those things between men and women. The relationship between men and women in the entertainment industry is very chaotic, in contrast, Hu Yang and Sister Yuan are quite pure, at least not so dirty.
Only when you really get in touch with that circle will you know what kind of slut the goddess is in the eyes of others. It is said that men play with women, but some women are not playing with men? At least it is not uncommon in the entertainment industry.
Boarding the seventy or eighty meters long giant building ship, there are a lot of people on it, just the first floor, there are as many as fifty or sixty antique stalls, it is simply a small antique market.
It is said that the second and third floors are considered real trade fairs, and there are no fakes on the upper two floors, and once they are checked, it will be difficult to board the ship again in the future.
The upper two floors can generally be reached by people who have a certain ability to pay. Therefore, the 100 yuan ticket is just a stroll on the first floor.
On the boat, there are also beautiful women in ancient costumes playing pipa music. On the boat, there is food and drink, I have to say, these people really know how to play.
"This kind of antique trading place was only recently created, and I haven't been here before. Brother Yu smiled helplessly.
Some time ago, he heard about the so-called river antique fair, but as soon as he heard that he wanted tickets for getting on the boat, he immediately felt that it was hype, thought it was not interesting, and had some resistance in his heart, so he didn't come.
A stall near them sells lucky bags. The bag contains something, it may be a piece of jade, it may be a copper coin or two, etc., a lucky bag, it costs two hundred yuan.
Seeing this, everyone doesn't know what to say, this seems to be no different from the gambling treasure chests and the like that they encountered before, right?
Everyone knows that this bet must lose more and win less, and in the end it is basically their own loss, but often many people play, and everyone feels that they have the potential to become the lucky one.
"In the current antique market, there are quite a lot of tricks!"
"Other stall owners also have to keep pace with the times and get a little more new tricks, otherwise it will be difficult to do business. ”
"A lucky bag is only two hundred yuan, and I guess no lucky bag has anything good. I play games to draw lucky bags, and the lucky bags never drop. ”
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