Chapter Twenty-Six: A City Full of Ghost Cities
The moment I woke up, my head was so empty that I almost thought I had a concussion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info almost thought he had just come out of some mental hospital, with shaggy hair and clothes and garbage all over the bed.
With a blank face, if I hadn't seen that it was my own bed, I would still be really confused.
It seems that I have to go to the store today, the sun is already shining, and the wood should already be in the store. Oh, by the way, I have to arrange a store today, go to the Xiaodongmen antique market.
I got up and went to the store, "Yo, did you have breakfast on the wood?" I asked, because this guy often doesn't need to eat.
"Oh, Brother Wu, eat, eat, I ate today, my girlfriend made me breakfast in the morning," Mu Tou said with a happy face. What, I was in disbelief that Wood had a girlfriend again, and it would be a big blow if I let my mom know!
Ay! Mu to find the person he loves, even if it is not true love, but he will be happy temporarily......
Maybe this is the love of this era, either it will remain the same, or it will change when the clouds and rain turn around! "I'm going to go out in a while, you watch, don't get too involved in that thing!" Let me say a few words. Wood is good at everything, but he is too persistent, sometimes too rational, he used to be too idealistic, but now he has become too rational.
I saw a little bit of familiarity in him, really! Haha, that's how I came over.
"Well, okay, don't worry," said the guy and continued to lie on his stomach on his stomach again. Looking at him, I still feel so uneasy, but fortunately, what I sell in this store is not a precious device.
"Oh, by the way, Brother Wu, when will you be back?" Wood asked.
"What's the matter with you, I'll probably be late in the afternoon, if there's something to tell me in advance," I said.
I didn't expect this guy to be fine, "Oh, it's okay, I'll just ask," Wood said very seriously. I also replied seriously: "If I don't come back, you can go back early after work in the afternoon!"
Wood snorted!
Walking out of the door, I took a taxi to Xiaodongmen, and as for Kui Douwen's matter, I haven't waited for a response from Chuanzi. I thought it would be best to wait for Kawako to come, and I don't know where the carrier pigeon has flown now, and whether I can pass the information to Kawa.
So now this matter is temporarily pressed, and besides, that thing is in my hands, and I am not afraid that it will run.
Going to Xiaodongmen is a place I go to every month, although I don't know much about antiques and the like, I go because of my ring collection. In the past, hobby collecting has always been based on major antique markets, street vendors and black markets.
Going there was a routine, and several of the bosses there knew me well, and they would leave me rings when they came across similar ones. I took off the black jade and silver dragon ring, took King Kong with me, and walked away in a simple outfit.
I still know some of the five mysteries in the small east gate, and the people who go to those places are either foreigners or come to pick up leaks, although there are also many visitors. But that's where the charm of the place lies, and of course there are a lot of things that are looked at by the store. However, the probability of this kind of thing is almost negligible, but it is still real, but such a good thing also requires you to have vision.
I just don't have that eyesight, just like ordinary people, that is, to join in the fun.
I often go to several places, in addition to the small east gate, as well as the Eight Immortals Palace, Zhuque Road, these places are already half of the Xi'an antique shop. If you want to find the old stuff you want here, it's relatively easy.
With the vigorous development of the economy, the antique shops in Xi'an have begun to transform from niche to diversified. Before that, the traditional collections in Xi'an and the hot goods circulating in the ghost market were all bronzes from the Zhou and Qin dynasties, as well as porcelain from Yaozhou kiln and Tang Sancai. Ancient weapons, ancient coins, ancient calligraphy and paintings before the Song Dynasty, and ancient jade before the Han Dynasty are all strong points.
This is the thick historical accumulation of the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, which makes the market in Xi'an unique in the accumulation of cultural relics in the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, whether it is the scale or the age, it is vaguely visible, and it can also be said to be the "holy land" of the antique world! The antique world in Xi'an is a high-spirited existence, and many things from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are circulated from here. It's just that many times it's transferred without anyone knowing, and when you get the news, you don't know how many hands have been transferred.
Looking at the bustling flow of passengers every day, you will know that no one can say whether you are keen on this kind of thing, and the things left by the ancestors are so rare. Of course, after many years of changes, the things involved have become more of an international trend.
From horse bells, manuscripts, books, old stamps, books, newspapers, records, and other red-themed collections have also become in full swing. Recently, rare books, modern ceramics, metal crafts and unique cultural relics and antiques have also opened up new hot spots.
As the saying goes, interlacing is like separating mountains, and what I can know is what a boss I met at Xiaodongmen told me. I have a good relationship with him, and every time I come here, I will find him for tea and chat.
I also heard that Mr. Lu Xun came here when he came to Xi'an to give a speech, which shows that it is indeed unusual! If you want to say that this is the real antique holy place in Xi'an, it must be the small east gate, which is the real connoisseur gathering place, and it is also ...... You know that!
During the Qing Dynasty, Xiaodongmen was famous as a 'ghost market full of cities', and the transaction volume was amazing. After the Xinhai Revolution, many of the children of the former Qing Dynasty officials secretly sold their collections, and the location was chosen in the "Mancheng", that is, the small east gate. Because it is a night transaction, most of the main families do not come forward themselves, but entrust them to the brokers who "carry the baggage", which is very mysterious, which is also one of the reasons why the ghost market in the city is named.
To this day, Xiaodongmen's fame has never faded! Chasing its roots, or the background......
These are the unspoken rules of the domestic antique market, and Taobao and leakage are the biggest fun in the antique industry. Some clues can be seen from the faces of those people, who are often obsessed with one place, and the guy who can't move for a long time has taken a fancy to something on time. I have to work hard to bargain with the boss, and people with a discerning eye know that things will be relatively stable after the formation of a recognized price, and the market for more mysterious things is generally more obscure, and the price is not transparent, and some are even asking for a sky-high price.
There is no way around it, and for historical reasons, the trade in antique artifacts seems to have been shrouded in mystery. Those who know the goods will pick up the leaks, and those who don't know the goods may "hit the eye", and if the store does not know the goods, they will sell the leaks. "Most of the trading methods in this industry are back-to-back, and no one wants to put a price on it.
Nowadays, many people only see the huge profits of the antique industry, and engage in antique trading with the mentality of getting rich overnight, but they do not understand the value of antiques and how they can realize their own value. And the embodiment of value, which is to be quite high technical content, knowledge, and understanding of the cultural connotation of antique cultural relics.
Last time at the Guardian 2012 autumn auction, a golden peach skin sheath 'Tianzi No. 17' waist knife made by Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was sold for more than 40 million yuan. And the news I know seems to be that the waist knife was sold from a collector in Xi'an, and it was sold at a price that was 2% lower than the price at that time.
It once caused a sensation, and this waist knife is of unknown origin, and it has changed hands several times, and I heard that it almost killed someone!
Although Xi'an is a major province of cultural relics, Xi'an is not a large province of collection. Most of them flow through the country and abroad, which is also a shame for us and our ancestors!
I walked around the small east gate for a long time, went to an acquaintance, and got the things I wanted. Thinking that there was nothing to do any longer, I prepared to call home, and the afternoon was wasted here. On the way back, I was working on the bus, which happened to be the rush hour after work, and I was stuck in traffic for a long time, so I was sleepy and slept until the terminal!
It was already 8 o'clock in the evening, and I thought the bookstore must have been packed up, so I wouldn't go at this hour, and I would go straight back.
When I got home, the first thing I did was to see if there was any response from the carrier pigeon rack outside the window, but to my disappointment, the pigeon did not come back. This also shows that Chuanzi is far away, at least on the premise that the carrier pigeon can find him, I think so.
Either the carrier pigeon gets lost, I can basically deny this point of view, which is the most basic skill of the carrier pigeon. Unless I encounter some predator or something, I don't think it's better not to be like that, or I'll have a real headache.
Since I didn't, I wasn't too disappointed, anyway, now we have the initiative.
It's really tiring after a day of running, I don't usually run around much, I'm used to it in the store. I took off my shoes and brewed a cup of green tea to nourish my mind, green tea was obtained by a friend of mine from the green tea township of Xixiang County, Hanzhong City, southern Shaanxi.
From Hanzhong to Xixiang by car or train, it takes a little more than an hour at the earliest, and it can be even faster if you drive yourself. I still remember that the train from Hanzhong to Xixiang should have six times a day.
Since ancient times, Xixiang has the reputation of "the small Jiangnan at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains", and has been praised by officials of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as "one of the most suitable places for human habitation".
Southern Shaanxi is different from Zhongguanzhong, there are abundant products, there are fish and shrimp, and rice is also produced, so rice is an indispensable food to live there, basically rice and steamed bread noodles are staple foods.
Many people can't distinguish between Guanzhong, southern Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi in Shaanxi, and often mistakenly think that the entire territory of Shaanxi is the loess high slope style of northern Shaanxi. I have encountered this situation more than once or twice, and I often spent two hours there for this kind of thing, in order to explain the climate, relationship and geographical location of Guanzhong, southern Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi.
may have originated from Chairman Mao's relationship with the Yan'an Revolutionary Base in Northern Shaanxi at that time, and most of the Shaanxi that friends outside the province know about are also mostly from Yan'an, the Red Revolutionary Base. Or it is from the influence and misleading of film and television dramas, so that everyone mistakenly thinks that Shaanxi is full of loess slopes, so I am painstaking!
As I said, the local cultural differences and climatic features, the local languages of Guanzhong and southern and northern Shaanxi are also slightly different.
The local dialect in southern Shaanxi is based on the official dialect of the Central Plains Qinlongpian and the official dialect of the southwest Chengyupian area, and the name of this Xixiang County is also related to one person, that is, "Shu General Zhang Fei". The original Xixiang County was not called this name, Liu Bei took Hanzhong that year, and the county land returned to Shu. The southern border of Chenggu County was placed in Nanxiang County (that is, Xixiang County and Zhenba County) were separated from Chenggu, and the independent administration was the year, and Zhang Fei was named "Xixiang Hou" until Cao Wei destroyed Shu.
After the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, Emperor Wu Taikang was named after Zhang Fei to seal Hou Xixiang and changed Nanxiang County to Xixiang County, and Xixiang's tea began in the Qin and Han dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties.
And the tea I brew now comes from this, and it is the best "Wuzi Xianhao"! Harvested at an altitude of 2000~3000 meters above sea level, and picked 10 days before the Qingming Festival to after the valley rain, with one bud and one or two leaves as the standard.
Wuzi Xianhao is really a good choice for people like me who know a little but don't know very much. A cup of tea completely confused my thoughts, and got a refreshing refreshment, as if one thing was clearer in my head!
Just as I was thinking about it, a gust of wind hit me, "Coo-goo...... Goo ......"