The name of Tianqu City contains the two words "Tianqu", which is said to come from Yan Song, the Prince's Grand Tutor during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.
The Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty succeeded in his campaign of rebellion and became the Yongle Emperor, and moved the capital to Yanjing. From that time on, the status of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal became increasingly important.
Tianqu is located on the bank of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It became the water transport channel for nine provinces including Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi to Beijing, so it was known as "Jiuda Tianqu" and "Gateway to the Capital".
Tianqu was an important channel for water transport in ancient times, and it is still an important transportation hub in the country in modern times. The Beijing-Shanghai Railway runs through Tianqu, and the Shide Railway connects the Beijing-Shanghai Railway with the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway. In addition, the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, the Shijiazhuang-Jinan Passenger Dedicated Line and the Delongyan Railway also intersect in Tianqu, making it an intersection of five railway lines.
In terms of highways, Tianqu also has unique convenience advantages. The Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway, Qingdao-Yinchuan Expressway, Deheng Expressway, Debin Expressway, Jiliao Expressway, and Jile Expressway crisscross Tianqu. There are also National Highways 104, 105, 205, 308, 309 and 19 provincial highways. As early as 2006, Tianqu was identified as the country's main transportation hub city.
Convenient transportation from ancient times to the present has created the prosperity of Tianqu and also made it a cultural center. People from all over the country will spread some of the local cultural characteristics here when passing through Tianqu, and they will also spread Tianqu's unique traditional culture to all parts of the country.
Not to mention that Tianqu City is also one of the birthplaces of the famous Dawenkou Culture and Longshan Culture.
Therefore, although Tianqu is not very large, its literary style is quite prosperous, which can also be reflected in the antiques.
In the urban area of Tianqu, which has a population of less than 600,000, there are five antique markets. In terms of scale, the Grand Canal Antique Market is the largest antique market in Tianqu City.
Because this market was built the latest and is located in Tiexi where land prices are not very expensive, there is ample margin in the planning.
According to official information, the Grand Canal Antique City has 20,000 stalls and more than 1,000 two-story business stores.
However, although the Grand Canal Antique City is large in scale, it has not been built for a long time, so the occupancy rate of merchants is not very high. Moreover, many merchants do not set up stalls inside the market, but set up their small stalls on the side of Sanba Road on the opening days...
At first glance, the Grand Canal Antique Market is very similar to the flea markets in Britain and France. Hundreds of individual vendors just hold a stool, spread a plastic sheet on the ground, and place the handicrafts they carry on the plastic sheet. This is a stall.
This was also Yang Jing’s first time to visit the Grand Canal Antique Market. After all, when the market opened, Yang Jing had just gone to study in the UK. He had not been back for two years, so naturally he had never been to this market.
Seeing the familiar scene, Yang Jing's hands couldn't help but tremble twice. There were hundreds of individual stalls, and it was a huge area when spread out.
Yang Jing pushed his grandfather as he walked and looked at the stalls. After looking at only a few of them, his grandfather said unhappily, "What a mess these are! They are not good at all."
Yang Jing also shook his head helplessly. It was because most of the things on these stalls were "Singapore" that could be seen at a glance - this is jargon, taken from the homonym of "xinjiapo".
And if you want to make something new look like something worn out, then so be it. But you have to be so self-righteous as to make it look old in a particularly "outrageous" way - a jargon for things that are not made good enough to look old.
Occasionally you can see some high-quality imitations, but they are still hard to come by.
The old man can tell the quality of these street goods at a glance without even touching them, and they are still in pieces. How can the old man not be angry?
The uncle laughed softly and said, "Let's not look outside, let's go inside and take a look. I've been here twice before, and the things outside are really not worth seeing. Most of the stalls are guerrillas who go to the countryside to collect goods, and most of the goods they have are 'Gao Baye'. Let's go inside the market and take a look. There are still some good goods inside. If you're lucky, you can also see some good things in Dakaimen."
Yang Jing nodded and pushed his grandfather through the crowd toward the north. The further they walked, the fewer people there were.
This is the sad thing about the Grand Canal Antique City. It is obviously a formal antique city, but because of the existence of these guerrillas, there are not many people in the antique city, but it is bustling outside.
There is no way around it. The place where the guerrillas set up their stalls outside is not under the jurisdiction of the Antique City Management, and the legendary City Management does not care during the three days when the Antique City is open. So these guerrillas took advantage of the loophole and set up stalls outside openly.
Very arrogant...
Why do you set up a stall in an antique city? You have to pay the stall fee to the antique city. It is much better to set up a stall outside. There is no fee. If you run into someone who needs to take medicine or pay tuition during a day of setting up a stall, you will have to pay for half a month's food expenses. If you are lucky enough to meet a few people who need to take medicine, you will not have to worry for three months.
Anyway, the stuff in my hands is not that good, so I don’t mind leaving it outside in the wind and sun.
If it were you, wouldn't you do the same?
If you don’t take advantage of a good opportunity, you’re a fool!
Yang Jing and his uncle pushed grandpa past the street stall area and entered the real antique city.
The main body of the Grand Canal Antique City is a three-story building, which originally housed stalls arranged by the market for merchants. However, due to the presence of those guerrillas, many people who originally wanted to rent counters in the building no longer do so, so it is said that the building is still empty.
However, under the main building of the antique city, there are many shops specializing in selling antiques, and Yang Jing and his team's target are these shops.
The shop at the very outside was called "Jubaozhai". After discussing with his uncle, Yang Jing pushed his grandfather into the shop.
The area of this shop is quite large. The first floor alone is about 100 square meters.
There are many paintings hanging in the shop, and items such as pens, inks, paper and inkstones are placed on the antique shelves. In the most conspicuous glass counter, there are several rare and ancient books that look very old, but it is not known whether they are real or not.
It is obvious that this shop mainly deals in calligraphy and paintings.
When the boss saw Yang Jing and his friends coming in, he greeted them warmly.
"What would you like to order? Our store has all kinds of rare ancient books from the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as calligraphy and paintings. Of course, if you want to buy some study treasures, we have those too, at affordable prices."
Yang Jing smiled and said, "We are just taking a look. We will help you if you need anything."
Grandpa turned around and said, "Xiao Jing, push me over there to look at that painting..."
Yang Jing looked in the direction of his grandfather's finger and saw a painting hanging on the wall. It was too far to see clearly, so Yang Jing pushed his grandfather over there.
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