Chapter 248: The Great Qian Collection

The result of the matter was almost the same as Lu Hao thought, the only difference was that the mother still had to go back to Xinhu, leaving behind the eldest aunt Dong Cuihua and the eldest sister Lu Yu. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The two of them divided labor, the eldest aunt was responsible for Lu Hao's hoarding of courtyards in the capital, and the eldest sister was responsible for collecting this piece.

Hoarding a house is simple, as long as you have money in your hand, and the aunt doesn't need to learn to get started, but it is difficult to collect this piece, it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity, and they don't know anything about the determination of price.

The eldest sister did not interfere in the part that Gao Jin was responsible for, but in order to prevent herself from being fooled by them, first, she arranged financial personnel in a unified manner, and second, she hired several experts from the Palace Museum through her own connections.

The collections acquired by the Daqian Collection Museum will be brought to the courtyard every day, and these experts found by the eldest sister are to re-identify and evaluate these collections, and then compare them with the price of Gao Jin, which is expensive or cheap.

Gao Jin didn't feel unhappy about these, Lu Hao took out such a huge amount of money to collect cultural relics, it is absolutely necessary to be careful, that is, he himself is also staring at the collection hall every day, and he does not dare to be negligent at all, as long as the price of a single cultural relic purchased exceeds 50,000 yuan, he must personally take a long look.

Lu Hao is full of feelings for these, the love of the family, his heart is warm, the eldest aunt who doesn't come to work in Beijing, and the eldest sister who has a big belly for more than five months, but they are here for their own affairs, and they are not fooled for anything else but for their own money.

Liulichang antique street.

In the row upon row of antique streets, there is a very conspicuous building, there is a big sign on the top of the building, which reads five big characters of the Daqian Collection Museum, and there are eight slightly smaller words written below the big characters, all of which are collected and not sold.

The house is in a densely populated place, with more than 10 houses facing south in the north, and a small yard in the back. Other people's antique shops are low-key and introverted, but the Daqian Collection Museum is full of publicity, making it as unique as scorpion.

The newly built Daqian Collection will take two months to move in, in order not to delay the time, Lu Hao bought a few houses in the west of the Liuli Factory, and opened for business with a simple partition.

Although it has only been open for a few days, it is already a big name in the entire antique collecting world, and this ostentatious collection is not only hated by no one, but also has a steady stream of customers every day.

The owners of the surrounding antique shops are also secretly happy about the stupid hat collection that suddenly appeared, as long as they have good things in the store to be sent there, they will definitely be acquired, although they make less money, but people take everything, and they are not afraid of your goods, as long as it is true.

In this way, the antique shops are not afraid of the scarcity of customers, there are many antique shops from the simple sale of antiques, slowly become professional shopping for antique dealers, as long as the purchase of things is eye-catching, even if the price is high, thousands of collections will be wanted.

In particular, it has greatly driven the market of Panjiayuan, and now there are countless people squatting there every day to pick up leaks, and then go to the Daqian Collection Museum to sell.

In fact, Panjiayuan is most famous for the ghost market, to explain the origin of the "ghost market", we must first clarify a concept - the opening time of the market. In the past, the ghost market in Yanjing was also called the night market, also known as the Xiao market.

This night market is not the other night market, the current night market starts around dusk and continues until the first half of the night, and there are also all-night markets, which are called "nightlife" in a fashionable phrase.

In the past, the night market refers to the beginning of the second half of the night, limited to the dawn, the stall will be closed at dawn, and the people vividly call it "the sale of the stall in the middle of the night".

It is said that from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, it is very famous in Beijing, such as the "Dongxiao City" outside the Chongwen Gate, the "Night Market" outside the Xuanwu Gate and the "Xiao Market" outside the Desheng Gate.

The ghost market in Panjiayuan belongs to the ghost market in the old capital, and someone enters the market at 4 o'clock in the morning. Let's talk about why it's called a "ghost market". In the late Qing Dynasty, the situation was turbulent, the country was dying, and the emperor couldn't keep it, let alone the courtiers. Many Qing court legacies, ruined and wealthy, and their families could not make ends meet after their families were ruined, so they could only survive by selling the little family property left by their ancestors.

But after all, once it was prominent, where can you put it down and lose face? So taking advantage of the half-bright and half-dark light before dawn, he took antiques and secretly sold them on the street, not only avoiding acquaintances, but also making a sale. Beijing is an imperial city, it was a concentration of bureaucratic families in those years, and there were many dilapidated dignitaries at this time.

Another theory is that the ghost market opens early, the sky is not yet bright, and there is no electric light, the black paint is black, the poor light the flint, the rich carry the lantern, the faint and shabby like the ghost fire under the simple lighting equipment, the figure shuttles and stops, erratic, there is no half of the ghost, the ghost is there first.

In addition, many gentlemen on the beam also came here to get rid of some shady things, and there were even counterfeiters who took advantage of the chaos to peddle some fakes, both of which were sneaky. In short, it is inseparable from the word "ghost", and the ghost market gets its name from this.

Further down there is even more legendary. It is said that the ghost market is open at the time of the alternation of yin and yang, and the surrounding lights and shadows are flickering, you can't see me clearly, I can't see you clearly, so not only the people in the yang world come and go, but also attract the interest of the gods and ghosts in the underworld, and the front foot buys something from you, and the back foot lies back in the coffin.

The most interesting of the various legends is that according to legend, the Empress Dowager Cixi celebrated her sixtieth birthday, and she had to let her little eunuchs prepare fox furs. Seeing that the time limit was approaching, the little eunuch had no choice but to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and really responded, taking advantage of the night to buy the best fox skin in the ghost market, and the seller turned into a wisp of green smoke and left, and then touched the fox skin It was still hot, and the little eunuch woke up to the seller was the incarnation of the fox fairy, and took off the skin to save his life.

No matter what kind of origin the ghost market of Panjiayuan is, and no matter how credible it is, all kinds of legends add a sense of mystery to Panjiayuan, and the merchants are willing to pass it on, and the tourists are also willing to listen to it, and both sides are happy anyway.

The ghost market of Panjiayuan has become a scene in the capital, maintaining the ancient taste in the modern city, which is also the unique charm of Panjiayuan as a "cultural market".

In fact, now the "ghost market" mainly sells tomb robberies or things from unknown sources, and people who have been mixed for a long time know that the good things of Panjiayuan are all out of the "ghost market".

"Ghost market" good things are more expensive and cheaper, but the risk is too high, there were many people who were worried before, and did not dare to make a move, unless they met something they really liked, they would secretly buy one, but now the situation has changed, the Daqian Collection Museum is really everything, and they don't ask the source, as long as the thing is good, you dare to buy it. (To be continued.) )