The name of Tianqu City has the word "Tianqu", which is said to be derived from the hands of Yan Song, the Grand Tutor of the Prince during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Yongle of Ming Dynasty succeeded in Jingnan, became Emperor Yongle, and moved the capital to Yanjing. From that time on, the status of the Grand Canal of Jinghang became more and more important.

Tianqu is located on the banks of the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, and has become the canal transport channel from Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi to Yanjing, so it is known as "Nine-Da Tianqu" and "Gateway to Shenjing".

Tianqu City was an important channel for canal transportation in ancient times, and in modern times, it was still an important transportation hub city in the country. The Beijing-Shanghai Line runs through Tianqu, while the Shide Line connects the Beijing-Shanghai Line with the Beijing-Guangzhou Line. In addition, the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway, the Shiji Passenger Dedicated Line and the Delongyan Railway also intersect in Tianqu, which is the intersection hub of five railway lines.

In terms of roads, Tianqu also has unique convenience advantages. The Jingfu Expressway, Qingyin Expressway, Deheng Expressway, Debin Expressway, Jiliao Expressway, Jile Expressway and other expressways are crisscrossing in Tianqu, and there are also national highways 104, 105, 205, 308, 309 and 19 provincial highways. As early as 2006, Tianqu was identified as the main transportation hub city in the country.

The convenient transportation from ancient times to the present has created the prosperity of Tianqu, and at the same time it has made it a cultural center. When people from all over the country pass by Tianqu, they will spread some local characteristic culture here, and at the same time spread the unique traditional culture of Tianqu to all places.

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 big, its writing style is quite strong. This can also be reflected in the aspect of antiques.

In Tianqu City, 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 at the latest, and it was Tiexi, where the land price was not very expensive, there was sufficient surplus in planning.

According to the official information, Grand Canal Antique City has 20,000 stalls and more than 1,000 business stores with two floors.

However, although the Grand Canal Antique City is not small in scale, the occupancy rate of merchants is not very high because it is not built for a long time. Moreover, many merchants do not set up stalls in the market, but instead place their small stalls on the roadside of Sanba Road when they open the market...

At first glance, the Grand Canal Antique Market is very similar to the flea market in the UK and France. Hundreds of individual merchants took a stool, then spread the plastic cloth on the ground, and placed the handicrafts they carried on the plastic cloth. This is a stall.

It was Yang Jing who came to the Grand Canal Antique Market for the first time. After all, when this market opened, Yang Jing had just gone to study in the UK. He hadn't come back for two years, so naturally he never came to this market.

Seeing the familiar scene, Yang Jing's hands couldn't help but tremble twice. Hundreds of personal stalls were so large that they were spread out.

Yang Jing pushed his grandfather and looked at these street stalls while walking. As a result, he saw few stores. Grandpa said unhappily: "These are all messy things! There is no level at all."

Yang Jing shook his head helplessly, it was nothing more, because most of the things on these street stalls were "New. Singapore" that could be seen at a glance - this is jargon, taken from the homonym of "New and Fake Break".

And if you are new and fake, just fake, just fake, but you are self-righteous and very "rebellious" - bad verbal words about old things.

I can occasionally see some high-quality imitations, but I can't stand it.

The old man can tell at a glance that these street stalls are so stingy, and they are still in groups. How can the old man not be angry?

My uncle said with a low smile: "We won't watch outside, we'll wander around inside. I've been here twice. I really don't know what's outside. Most of the stalls are guerrillas who specialize in collecting goods in rural areas. Most of the goods they have in their hands are 'Gao Baye'. Let's go to the market to check it out. There are still some goods inside. After you get there, you can still see good items that open the door."

Yang Jing nodded and pushed his grandfather to walk north from the crowd, with fewer people leaving.

This is a sad thing about the Grand Canal Antique City. It is clearly a regular 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 out. The places where the guerrillas set up stalls outside are not included in the antique city management, and the legendary urban management did not care about the three days after the antique city was opened. So these guerrillas took advantage of the loopholes and set up stalls outside in a grand manner.

Very arrogant...

What do you do when setting up a stall in the antique city? You have to call the stall fee for the antique city. It’s so good to set up a stall outside, but there is no cost. If you encounter a stall that takes medicine or pays tuition, the food fee will be paid in half a month. If you get it done, you will encounter more than a few people who take medicine, and you won’t have to worry about three months.

Anyway, the goods in my hands are not a good thing, so I don’t feel sorry for the wind and sun outside.

If it were you, wouldn't you do the same?

If you don’t take advantage of it, that’s a fool!

Yang Jing and his uncle pushed their grandfather through 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 was originally a stall arranged by the market for merchants. However, because of the existence of those guerrillas, many people who originally wanted to rent counters in the building no longer rent counters in it, 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. Yang Jing and his team are targeting these shops.

The shop that lined up the outside was named "Jubaozhai". As soon as Yang Jing and his uncle discussed, they pushed their grandfather into the shop.

The area of ​​this shop is quite large, and the floor on the first floor alone is about 100 square meters.

There are many paintings hanging in the shop, and there are also objects such as pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the antique shelves. On the most conspicuous glass counter, there are a few rare ancient books that look very old, but I don’t know whether it is true or not.

Obviously, this shop is a shop that mainly sells calligraphy and paintings.

When the boss saw Yang Jing and the others coming in, he warmly greeted him.

"What do you want to order? Our store has various ancient books and rare books from the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as calligraphy and paintings. Of course, if you want to buy some four treasures of the study, we also have them here, and the prices are affordable."

Yang Jing smiled and said, "We just want to see if we have any needs."

Grandpa turned his head and said, "Xiao Jing, push me up there and look at the painting..."

Yang Jing looked in the direction of his grandfather's finger and saw a painting hanging against the wall. He couldn't see clearly from far away, so Yang Jing pushed his grandfather to the other side.
Chapter completed!