As the most famous and largest antique market in the country, the Yanjing Panjiayuan fritter market has an absolutely important position in the modern antique circle of China.

"Climb the Great Wall, eat roast duck, and visit Panjiayuan." These have become three essential things for domestic and foreign tourists to visit BJ!

Although the Panjiayuan Market was officially established in 1992, it has only been more than 20 years since now. Compared with Liulichang, the history of Lao Dong'an Market is far inferior to that of Xihuang City, outside Chaoyang Gate, outside Desheng Gate, Xixiao City in Xuanwu Gate, and Dong'an City in Chongwen Gate. But in modern times, I won’t talk about the Lao Ba Da Gate. There are almost no outsiders who know this name. Even the Yanjing people’s understanding of the Eight Great Gate Markets is limited to legends, Liulichang, and Lao Dong'an Market, but the fresh goods markets are far behind Panjiayuan in terms of fame.

Although Panjiayuan fritters market was established late, Panjiayuan's development speed was beyond the reach of other antique markets.

To put it no exaggeration, Panjiayuan fritter market is in the antique circle in China today, just like Maicheng to the Green Cultists and the Vatican to the Catholics.

Everyone in Yanjing City knows that there are always two places in the huge Yanjing City that are crowded with people. One is the Forbidden City Square, where everyone looks up and looks up the national flag; the other is Panjiayuan, where everyone looks down and looks for national treasures...

Those who play antiques, if 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 followed his grandfather to Panjiayuan several times, but he was still young at that time and basically had no impression of Panjiayuan. He just vaguely remembered that there were many people there and many street stalls.

But today when he came here by taxi, he realized that this place was very different from the vague impression in his memory.

There are much more people here than I remember. Although today is not Saturday or the day of Panjiayuan Festival, there are still many people here that make people dizzy. At first glance, the vast crowds are all people with heads, and the ears are filled with bargaining sounds...

Yang Jing entered the Panjiayuan fresh goods market from the north gate. As soon as he entered the door, he started to stroll in a clockwise direction.

However, after walking around for a while, Yang Jing was disappointed.

It was really disappointing, because Yang Jing could clearly feel that the atmosphere here was not as hot as the legendary one.

Although there are many tourists here, many stalls are empty in broad daylight. Even if some stalls are open, the transaction does not seem to be very popular. Yang Jing even ignored the taboos and asked about the price at several stalls, but the boss also ignored it.

At this time, Yang Jing understood what the saying "I have a plan to ship in the early morning, whether it is true or false depends on the practice."

In fact, after more than 20 years of development, real experts rarely visit the stalls here in broad daylight. The old customers and vendors who often walk around Panjiayuan know that only the two days on weekends are the serious day of live life.

The Panjiayuan Fresh Goods Market operates from Monday to Friday from 8 am to 6 pm, and on Saturday and Sunday, the opening hours are directly advanced to 4:30 am. Why is this happening? It is because Saturday and Sunday are the days when the "ghost market" opens.

Because the antique trading industry is too deep, if you want to buy valuable old items in Panjiayuan, you must come on the weekend "ghost market". There are only two days a week and there are many experts and many good collections. Hawkers can naturally sell them at the price, and buyers can naturally find real products. If you come to visit, there are relatively few real products, which is basically a waste of effort. Hawkers usually only use high imitations and fakes to display them as souvenirs to do business for tourists and foreigners. To put it bluntly, they are confused and silly.

It is precisely because of this that this is the current situation that looks hot but is actually very embarrassing.

Of course, the fundamental reason for this situation is also the "shrinkage" of the antique market.

The so-called "repulsion" does not mean that there are fewer people playing antiques. On the contrary, in this peaceful and prosperous era, more and more ordinary people have begun to play with antiques, and they are in a trend of "national antiques".

This "declination" now refers to the fact that there are fewer and fewer valuable real things in the antique market today.

After the Chinese antique industry experienced a very hot stage at the beginning of this century, there were fewer and fewer real things. To put it simply, in the antique market, fake goods account for 70%, new goods account for 20%, and old goods account for 9%, and less than one percent of the old things that are really valuable.

Is this statement a bit terrifying? But this is actually true!

It’s like Yang Jing was in the greenhouse area of ​​the market. Yang Jing saw a box of “old diarrhea”, and that look like the nine-eyed pure diarrhea that the famous movie star Li Lianjie spent 20 million to invite from the Lama Temple in a few years.

The old Dzi beads invited by Li Lianjie are calculated based on the calculations, and here is "one box, one box".

The old Dzi beads invited by Li Lianjie are 20 million, and each one costs ten yuan here. His sister's volume is also great...

There are also those so-called "jadeites", I'm damn, it can scare people to faint at first glance.

Didn’t you say that jade is based on green? That’s no problem. My buddy is full of green here, from seedling green to emeralds. Whatever green you want, we will have whatever green you want!

God Horse? Do you want red jade? Wooden stuff, look at us, will blood jade be successful? How much does it cost...

Damn, what is this? The jade god and human pattern in Liangzhu culture are multi-chained cong? This thing is a national treasure. How big is the one placed in the Palace Museum? It seems to be only more than 30 centimeters high? How big is this one here? More than one meter high!

And you don’t have one girl here, and six or seven of them appeared at once! Damn, you don’t have to slap in the face like this! How can you feel about the Palace Museum?

God, what is this? Is this the jade grip from the Han Dynasty? Well, it looks like the style. But the jade grip from the Han Dynasty was a burial tool. It is usually ten centimeters long, which can be held by the dead. Why are you so big? Is it one foot? Only ghosts can hold such a large jade grip? Are you bullying us dead people and can't speak, right?

In the old book stall area on the west side of the market, there are about 300 book stalls extending from the north end to the south gate. People who follow the old book Chen Xiang stuffed the entire alley. When you walk in this area, you can see all the ancient rare books, from the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasty versions, from official engravings to the fangzhong editions and then to home engravings. As long as you can think of ancient books and rare books, you can see them here.

Of course, if you look at the authenticity of these "authorized rare books" like this, we advise you not to put in this effort. You just need to stand there and listen to the shouts of the book stall owners to directly determine the authenticity of these "authorized rare books".

The stall owners who set up stalls in this area will yell from time to time: "Two yuan per book, I'll dump it!"

Yang Jing even saw many items such as glass ball omega pocket watches, Nine-turn Qiankun resin lumps, Qing Dynasty hollow brands imitated by Korean materials, dyed stone-wrapped pendants, etc. These strange things that should have been rare and are actually quite common in the market. These are all fakes produced in batches. If you see them at a street stall, you will see the same thing at other street stalls.

If it weren't for seeing it with your own eyes, Yang Jing wouldn't believe that fraud could be so righteous and domineering!

In Tianqu’s antique market, Yang Jing has never seen fakes, but most of the fakes there are scattered. Not much like here, fakes have become group and flowing!
Chapter completed!