As the most famous and largest antique market in the country, the Yanjing Panjiayuan Flea Market plays an absolutely important role in China's modern antique circle.
“Climb the Great Wall, eat Peking duck, and visit Panjiayuan.” These have become three essential things to do when tourists from home and abroad visit BJ!
Although Panjiayuan Market was officially established in 1992, it has only been more than 20 years since then. Its history is far behind that of Liulichang and Laodong'an Market. It is even more incomparable with the eight old ghost markets in Yanjing, such as Xihuangchenggen, Chaoyangmen, Beixiao Market outside Deshengmen, Xixiao Market at Xuanwumen, and Dongxiao Market outside Chongwenmen. But in modern times, let alone the old eight ghost markets, there are almost no outsiders who know this name, and even the people of Yanjing only know about the eight ghost markets from legends. The second-hand markets such as Liulichang and Laodong'an Market are far behind Panjiayuan in fame.
Although Panjiayuan Flea Market was established late, its development speed is unmatched by other antique markets.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Panjiayuan Flea Market is to China's antique circle today what the Maicheng Battle is to Muslims and the Vatican is to Catholics.
Everyone in Yanjing City knows that there are always two places in the huge city of Yanjing that are crowded with people. One is the Forbidden City Square, where everyone looks up to watch the national flag being raised; the other is Panjiayuan, where everyone looks down to look for national treasures...
If you are an antique collector and you say you have never been to Panjiayuan in your life, you will be laughed at by others...
When Yang Jing was a child, he came to Panjiayuan several times with his grandfather. However, he was still young at that time and had basically no impression of Panjiayuan. He just vaguely remembered that there were many people and many stalls there.
But today, when he arrived here by taxi, he found that this place was very different from the vague impression in his memory.
There are many more people here than I remember. Even though today is not Saturday and not the Panjiayuan Market, there are still so many people here that it makes people dizzy. At a glance, it is full of heads and the ears are filled with the sound of bargaining...
Yang Jing entered the Panjiayuan Flea Market from the north gate. As soon as he entered, he started shopping in a clockwise direction.
However, after walking around for half a circle, Yang Jing was greatly disappointed.
It was really disappointing, because Yang Jing could clearly feel that the atmosphere here was not as hot as the legend said.
Although there were many tourists here, many stalls were empty in the daytime. Even if some stalls were open, the business did not seem to be very hot. Yang Jing even asked about the prices at several stalls, but the owners were indifferent.
Only at this moment did Yang Jing understand what the sentence "There is a plan to ship out the goods in the early morning, it depends on your practice." meant.
In fact, after more than 20 years of development, real connoisseurs now rarely visit the stalls here in broad daylight. Regular customers and vendors who often visit Panjiayuan know that the only two days on the weekends are the real business days.
The Panjiayuan Flea Market is open from 8am to 6pm from Monday to Friday, but on Saturday and Sunday, the market opens at 4:30am. Why is this so? It is because Saturday and Sunday are the days when the "ghost market" opens.
Since the antique trading business is so complicated, if you want to find valuable old items in Panjiayuan, you must come during the weekend "ghost market". There are many experts and good collections on these two days of the week. The vendors can naturally sell at a high price, and buyers can naturally find genuine goods. If you come here on weekdays, there are relatively few genuine goods, which is basically a waste of time. And the vendors on weekdays only put out high-quality imitations and fakes as souvenirs to attract tourists and foreigners. To put it bluntly, they buy and sell blindly.
It is precisely because of this reason that the current situation, which seems hot but is actually very embarrassing, has been created.
Of course, the fundamental reason for this situation lies in the "shrinkage" of the antique market.
The so-called "shrinkage" does not mean that there are fewer people collecting antiques. On the contrary, in the current peaceful and prosperous times, more and more ordinary people have begun to collect antiques, and there is a trend of "antiques for all the people".
This "shrinkage" now refers to the fact that there are fewer and fewer valuable genuine items in the current antique market.
After the Chinese antique industry experienced a very hot period at the beginning of this century, the number of genuine antiques has become increasingly rare. It is no exaggeration to say that in the current antique market, fakes account for 70%, new goods account for 20%, and old goods account for 9%. The truly valuable old things account for less than 1%.
Does this statement sound a bit wild and shocking? But it is actually true!
Just like when Yang Jing was in the greenhouse area of the market, he saw boxes and boxes of old dzi beads, and they looked exactly like the nine-eyed pure old dzi beads that the famous movie star Jet Li spent 20 million to buy from the Lama temple a few years ago.
The old Dzi beads that Jet Li bought were sold by the piece, but here they are sold in boxes.
Jet Li bought an old Dzi bead for 20 million yuan, but here it’s 10 yuan each, and the price is even better for large quantities...
And those so-called "jadeites", damn, they can scare people to death at first sight.
Didn’t you say that green is the most important color in jade? No problem, we have all green here, from seedling green to emerald green. Whatever green you want, we have it here!
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