In Yanjing, the earliest antique ghost market was the cigarette pouch diagonal street that appeared outside Di'anmen in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
At that time, the national disaster was at the head, not to mention that the common people were struggling to make a living, even those children of the Eight Banners or the children of rich families, one by one, they were all in fear.
And some things that seem to be serious violations of the law in modern times are becoming more and more rampant in those days.
For example, tomb robbers.
In those days, on the cigarette pouch diagonal street outside Di'anmen, there were many people trading antiques before dawn, because many treasures were sold by rich children or tomb robbers, the former was afraid of losing the face of their ancestors, and the latter was afraid of lawsuits, so they all went to the market to sell things in the dark, so it was called "ghost market".
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 earlier.
Of course, in addition to the ghost market, there was no antique market in Yanjing before the liberation, such as the Liuli Factory formed in the early Qing Dynasty, as well as Fulong Temple and Lao Dong'an Market, which can be regarded as the antique market of Zheng'er Bajing.
However, after the liberation, antiques as a special commodity by the state "banned", "public-private partnership" industry policy made many private antique shops gradually fade out of the market, scattered in the folk treasures are named "three unification" policy under the policy, that is, by the state unified acquisition, unified pricing, unified sales, the formation of state-owned cultural relics stores dominate the world.
At that time, the formal antique collectibles market in Yanjing City was only a dozen cultural relics stores, such as the Yanjing Cultural Relics Store at that time, which specialized in antique treasures, and Huaxia Bookstore, which specialized in ancient books, calligraphy, paintings, and used books.
There is no doubt that in the circulation of domestic antique collections, state-owned cultural relics 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 it also has to be noted that this special "channel" is also in a state of "closed-door self-operation", and for a long period of time, it is often only open to foreign guests, and Chinese people cannot become buyers, which greatly affects the overall healthy development of China's cultural 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 acquire them alone.
So in this case, the "ghost market" that had disappeared for a long time reappeared.
During the period of the late 70s and early 80s of the last century, the buying and selling of antiques was in a situation where the illegal and the legal were entangled, and the antique business was mostly carried out underground and semi-underground.
For example, at the end of the seventies of the last century, Yanjing Longtan Park formed a large-scale bird market, during which in addition to selling birds, it also began to sell old bird cages, old cage catches, old bird bars, etc.
The most typical antiques are the bird food cans of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, among which there are many fine products.
It is said that at that time, a Qianlong blue and white bird food jar was sold for a maximum of 50 yuan!
However, it is precisely because of the existence of this kind of trade that Longtan Lake Bird Market has been raided many times by the Public Security Bureau and the Cultural Relics Bureau.
At that time, there was also a very peculiar phenomenon, that is, the countryside around Yanjing suddenly began to be active.
For example, in that era, farmers in X County, Hebei Province and other places used bicycles to carry two large baskets loaded with old porcelain collected from ten miles and eight townships, and ten cars and eight cars formed a team and set off in the middle of the night to deliver goods to cultural relics stores such as Di'anmen and Hufang Bridge.
The "convoy" came early, the shops had not yet opened, and there was already a long queue at the door.
Next to these teams, there were often a group of city dwellers, chatting and chatting with the peasants.
These are the "pioneers" of Chinese antiques.
At that time, the cultural relics store received the goods, the bid was very low, a pair of "three hundred" porcelain vases - at that time, people often called a kind of skimming, sloping shoulders, with double ears, about 148 meters to 150 meters in height of about 148 to 150 meters large porcelain bottles called three hundred pieces, the price ranged from a few yuan to more than ten yuan (isn't it cheap?).
It's really cheap, although most of the 300 porcelain vases are porcelain vases after Daoguang and even the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, but such a big bottle, a pair is only ten yuan, it's really unimaginable!
The acquisition conditions are also very harsh, and the slightest disability will be rejected.
The "pioneers" outside the door waited for an opportunity to come over to negotiate prices and intercept the goods that the peasants could not sell.
Most of the earliest antique dealers in Yanjing remember the era of "chasing big baskets", which should be regarded as the "prehistory" of Yanjing's modern antique market.
There has always been a tradition in Yanjing's antique market, that is, the antique business is mixed with the sale of daily used goods, and this was the situation in the "ghost market" before the liberation.
Also in the early eighties of the last century, a thrift market was formed at the north gate of Xuanwu Park and opened every Thursday.
Because at that time, Yanjing was closed by district, and Xuanwu District was closed on Thursday.
The whole street is full of second-hand goods, including bicycle parts, daily miscellaneous items, and antique stalls.
By the mid-80s of the last century, 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 Xuanwu Park antique market by the administrators, the antique dealers were forced to move north, gathering on the west side of the Guohua shopping mall on Changchun Street.
This market was originally mixed with vegetable sellers, but later it was crowded out of vegetable stalls and became quite large.
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.
At about the same time, an antique market also appeared in the Drum Tower, which was adjacent to the stalls selling snacks such as belly popping.
Soon, there was a qualitative leap, the market set up a special shed, and the antique stall became an antique shop.
However, the market has been open for several years, but it has never received official permission from the cultural relics department.
Around this time, due to market management and other reasons, antique dealers suddenly came to a "crusade", almost collectively to the east, moved to Shabanzhuang in the CY district, this overgrown place, that is, the original site of the current Yanjing Antique City.
Before and after this, a piece of soil slope a stone's throw northwest from Shabanzhuang, there was also a market, which was the predecessor of the current Panjiayuan Market.
At that time, vendors from other places carried baskets and sacks on their backs, and set up stalls here every Sunday, and soon the market scale developed.
Shabanzhuang and Panjiayuan echo each other, marking a new stage in the development of the BJ antique market.
At this time, the government's regulatory departments also changed from blindly confiscating to taking advantage of the situation, and basically recognized the legitimacy of the market.
Then, Shabanzhuang became Yanjing Antique City, and Panjiayuan developed into the country's largest antique and second-hand goods distribution center, attracting 60,000 or 70,000 Taobao people and tourists here every day, including more than 10,000 foreigners. ps: Bow and thank you for the 200 tip of "Ziyan Tianjiao".
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