There are 15 places called Shilipu in Shaanxi, but only the Shilipu in Xi'an Baqiao is the most unexpected.
You think it's an unremarkable urban village in the east of the city, but you can't imagine that it may also be the largest second-hand furniture store in the east of the city or even in the whole city; you think it's just an urban village with a second-hand furniture hypermarket, but you can't imagine that there is an antique trading market hidden here.
When you follow the map to find the antique market, at first glance, you will have doubts, thinking that the navigation is wrong, and you are taken to the second-hand kitchenware trading area.
Go back and look up, yes, obviously written in the four big characters of Chengdong Antiques, hey, it's play. Antiques are right next to used kitchen supplies.
In the smoke and rain of winter, the fluttering urban village, the boss sits in his not empty antique shop, holding a rag in one hand and fate in the other. The conversation will be deeper, and I will start to tell you the secrets of this antique trading area.
"Here you look at the rags and tatters, a few years ago, someone, Beijing came to drip, here to find a set of yellow pears." The opening price was hundreds of thousands, and finally shipped back to Beijing, directly sensational. Later, a group of Beijingers came to Wuyangyang. "I'm afraid you won't believe it, but at the end I'll add, "Ma Weidu also came at that time." ”
As a person who often visits the Xi'an antique market but doesn't buy anything, I am skeptical of these words said by the boss, especially the last sentence, what does Ma Weidu come to see? Look at the emerald green four sheep fangzun, copper fangding and tiliang in your shop last week?
Or do you look at the freshly baked terracotta heads, female figurines, and yellow baby pillows you bought back?
I don't know what kind of mood Teacher Ma was when he visited the Ten Mile Shop Antique Market, anyway, when I saw the following clay figurine, I still couldn't help laughing.
Thick shape, may be the only piece of rebound pipa flying large chest figurine in the country, the craftsman in the creation of the statue of the idea, through the wisdom revealed in the previous question and answer, like the big chest is instinctive, like the small chest is aesthetic.
Not to mention the baldness, even the mermaid next to it looked bald.
Of course, this is not the whole of the antiques in the east of the city, not so much an antique trading area, but rather that everything is sold here, from the antiques you think of as old furniture, old home appliances, old books and newspapers, large and small urns, doors and windows and beams... There's everything in broken copper and rotten iron.
This picture may illustrate everything, at least most of the antiques in the east of the city, everything, some objects make you feel particularly interesting, or reminiscent of some past events, but it is useless to buy them back.
Here is the "Guide for Migrant Workers to Get Rich in the City" recorded in the "Guide to Getting Rich in the City", most of the bosses began as a tricycle into the city to work, starting with the second-hand market to pull goods. After that, they went to the countryside to receive the goods, and the main sources of goods were the villages that were about to be demolished, the waste stations and the more far-reaching villages.
The boss smoked a cigarette, while packing things, while saying, these ten miles shop has no antique trading market, are buying and selling second-hand furniture, and later came here to buy antiques more people, there are antiques in the east of the city.
Tourists rarely set foot here, and not even locals know much about it.
The entire antique trading area looks architecturally, pure Syrian decoration style, objectively speaking, looks like one scrap collection station after another. The low house, the roller shutter doors, the asbestos tile roof, is all there is to a house. The goods are not very carefully placed, stacking all the way from the house until they overflow from the house to the road.
A small number of roller shutter doors are pull-down state, the shopkeeper is not there, there are two lines of large characters written on it with a brush, want to buy contact, phone ... Even if the door is open, the shopkeeper may not be there, go in for a while, the shopkeeper suddenly appeared, asked, what is the look? You say, I'll see. The boss said, then you can look at it. After saying that and leaving, it may be a chat, or it may be a card play.
Although it is a supplier of some stall owners in the antique markets such as Datang West Market and Eight Immortals Temple, although it also hangs a big sign of antiques in the east of the city, it is completely different from the antique market.
According to my observation, the general Xi'an antique stall is mainly a contest between acting skills and a game between psychological masters. All are actors, small booth Oscars, per capita small plums, the boss is mainly responsible for acting and psychological games.
An item, whether true or false, even if it was made early in the morning, the boss dares to tell you that this is the early Qing Dynasty, by the way. Then buyers and sellers start coming and going on price. One says it's cheaper, and the other says it really can't be cheaper. Heck, I'll take it with you if you have less. Brother, this really can't be cheaper, then forget it, hey, you come back, forget it, this day didn't open, it sold you cheaply!
If you really meet good acting skills, the Qingming River Map can be sold to you, and it will also make you feel that you have picked up a big leak.
For example, before I went to Datang West Market to see a handful of cold powder scratching, the stall mouth came, this Qing Dynasty, and then directly gave the offer of 500 yuan. But here is not the same, I pointed to the cold powder scratched and asked the boss, why is this selling?
The boss looked at me, you buy this! It's not worth the money, you want, just give two dollars on the line!
It has always been so direct, of course, it is not excluded that it is a kind of acting.
The boss does not talk to you about which era the goods are, you look at it, give you a price, you want to buy it, and the counter-offer does not sell. This is the quality of almost all the goods here, each flower into each eye, depending on whether you like it or not. Like it to have the price.
For example, this German-made Volenda Brilliant film double-reflex camera, the boss said that there are people who have come several times, but have been counter-offering, unfavorable, they simply do not sell, the camera keeps itself.
There is also the big brother that rich people can afford in the nineties. If you listen to the deyun society cross-talk and listen to Teacher Yu Qian's big brother paragraph, you know why Teacher Yu, who took the big brother, walked with a limp.
This thing, 99.9% of people buy back and it is useless. At best, it's an ornament.
Buddha heads, chairman's statues, bronze coins, calligraphy and paintings, wine pots, wire-bound books, various models of old radios, televisions, stereos, projectors, clocks, old fans, tapes... Don't say that after 00, after 80, here can only be regarded as a back wave. Let's go to the Nostalgia Museum for free.
Compared with the stall owners on the antique stalls who do not allow them to take pictures, the boss here is frank enough, Mo Si, you shoot casually, we are all first-line goods, are used by people before.
In the dim light package, the objects in the house are randomly placed together, disorganized, perhaps only the boss knows where the items are, I guess many bosses themselves are not very clear. Only when a customer takes one piece out of a pile of items, they give a price.
Although the antiques in the east of the city are not as magical as the Eight Immortals Temple and the Tang Dynasty West City, a stall and a picture of the Qingming River, but it is also interesting enough, each shop, like a blind box, you don't know a room of interesting objects you see inside, or a room of broken things.
In one store, after showing me the military water pumps he had collected and the fake grenades used by militia training decades ago, he felt a little too addicted, said you wait, and then plunged into the depths of the house and began to pull things out behind a pile of tables and chairs.
I guess when the boss went to the village to collect the goods, he found a big leak.
In the antique industry, generally this kind of thing is not exposed. Even if you want to see, you have to pay some money to ask for directions, such as not bargaining money to buy some worthless rags in the store, which is considered to be a pier, and then at least three or five times, and the boss is familiar with a face. Or, it must be an acquaintance to lead the way, and the boss will come up with the real thing.
I didn't expect to be lucky enough to see the boss's proud collection for the first time, which made me a little excited.
The eldest brother asked me if the camera was clear when he took pictures while pulling out things, and after getting my assurances, he finally took out a layer of wrapped items from the back of the cabinet, solemnly brought them to me, and turned on the lights of the house, on the grounds that the room was too dark and the camera might not be clear.
Then open the package, tell me seriously, see? Except for me, I can't see such a complete military uniform anywhere, and I don't see it through this look. The waistband of the pants is still with a model, 1966!
After showing his treasures, the eldest brother asked me what do you think? I looked up at the store and said, I can't think of any other words except, there is nothing to say, the chairman has to applaud when he sees it.
The eldest brother was satisfied and said, that's not it! Put the things away again and stuff them back into place.
The first time people meet, it is so hypocritical and enthusiastic.
In addition, you can also see that the essence of human shopping is that when you buy, your brain is hot. Otherwise you can't explain why anyone would buy such a wood carving.
And, without a deep love for the Deyun Society, who would buy a terracotta warrior that looks like Guo Degang?
Big brother, you buy the Dashun Emperor Seal, what is the use of you buying it?
Also, how arrogant and how much fake wine to drink before you can order such a medieval armor to come back? Anyway, I am afraid to buy, at night at home do not turn on the lights to see this, very diuretic.
To be honest, I didn't really notice the armor at first, but when I passed a shop, I suddenly felt a gaze from the store, and then I saw the bust of the man who choked the throat of fate, Beethoven, and then I saw the armor standing against the wall with the arched bust.
Although the store, like other stores here, looks like a waste recycling station from the outside and interior space, the name of the store reveals the ambition of the owner, the world's great bronze statue collection studio, the overseas sculpture return hall.
Here is the outline of life in Xi'an, which is the end of some stories.
See this bronze sheep stepping on a copper coin? Because of the excitement, I just took the photo.
Does anyone remember Master Wei in Xi'an?
It doesn't matter if you don't remember, it's that a few years ago, Master Wei met several people dressed as migrant workers on the way to deliver people, and then he was fooled into spending 500 yuan to buy an antique. Later, I went back to discuss with my daughter-in-law, and the antiques had to be handed over to the state, and I put my own home uninsured, and I also found a city express newspaper to report on this matter.
The treasure that the elder brother wants to hand over to the state is this bronze sheep. But unfortunately, the news came to an abrupt end here.
Later, Master Wei probably did not realize his wish to hand over the national treasure to the state, and this bronze sheep went around and finally wandered into the antique trading market in the east of the city.
As Pang Mai Lang sang, time, time will give me the answer.
Also wandering in the market were the various gods of wealth and Maitreya Buddha, who held up golden treasures.
This time, most of them came from some small companies in Xi'an.
Generally in the place just entered the door, pay attention to the master will look for the company's financial position, and then place the statue.
The statue of the god of wealth appears in pairs with the tea table. That is, a company that provides sculptures of the god of wealth will definitely have a conference room with a tea table or a general manager's office.
A friend of mine said that the business sea was floating and sinking, and the companies he stayed in had worshipped the god of literature and martial wealth, offered Maitreya, and made tea for countless visitors, but in the end they all went out of business.
Compared to the missing tea table, the statues may be of some use, and there is always a chance to sell to the next small company. Only in the process of waiting, Maitreya could only stand outside the house, and the silence of the knife in the house stood in a pile of old objects, looking very worried, as if asking the bosses if they could not see each other again, if they could not see each other, they could still blush.
Seongdong Antiques will not disappoint you.
Old objects are not completely worthless, but more like a gaze at past life. An old-fashioned landline, a mirror with the freedom of marriage written on it, a tea tray with enough food and clothing written on one's own hands, and an old-fashioned television set can arouse some of people's memories.
Sometimes when you look at some old things, you can't help but think about how the owners of these old things are living now.
Turning to a homemade notepad, about the size of a palm, the paper was yellowed, and scrawled handwriting was used to record the night school at a university in Xi'an.
I also saw a dilapidated graduation commemorative book, which was obviously collected from waste collection, and the boss was not embarrassed to ask for a price. On the first page of the graduation commemorative book, the message written by the class teacher is still clearly visible, but looking at the time, it is a faint past thirty years ago.
I don't know if the name called Xuan lai (I guess) is really as blessed by the class teacher, and everything has been smooth sailing since then.
Perhaps because the antiques market itself developed from the second-hand furniture trade, old furniture here sells faster than other goods. Taishi chairs, Kang tables, and old tables and cabinets with relevant Chinese characteristics are basically wanted.
Customers who come to buy either open a homestay or open a small tea house.
The price of these furniture is mainly determined according to the thickness of the pulp itself.
There are also some who were pulled away by the crew and the ancient shop. In addition, some old house components have more Shaanxi characteristics.
For example, these stone lions are almost all transferred from the countryside to the corner of the city, and these stone lions accompany a village for more than ten generations, and accompany a family for several generations in a short period of time, witnessing the prosperity and sorrow of rural families.
And these old door panels that have been torn down, which seem to many people to be of little use, and they can't think of anything else to do but chop wood, but the bosses will tell you that anything that comes here has value, just like these door panels, either continue to become door panels elsewhere, or they are changed into tables.
His nine-point Mediterranean hairstyle, with the smoke coming out of his mouth, makes him look like a philosopher who understands the mysteries of life in the winter rain, and the old things will not disappear, but just change their appearance and continue to accompany people.
It was the last thing he said, and when he was done, he hurried into the house and began to churn, because his house was leaking rain.
I walked around the market for half a day, and finally bought a few comic strips, not to draw at the famous artists that the boss said, but only printed 10,000 copies. Purely because I don't think it's appropriate to go in and talk about anything, just click and take pictures. In fact, at the beginning, I liked this kitten porcelain pillow.
After looking at this, I was a little dissatisfied. After all, as the old saying goes, cats and dogs are winners in both lives. I'm going to find another puppy ornament at the market.
Turned for half a day, the result found this, the appearance of the color is really too depressed, okay? What kind of person has come up with such a dog hook that looks like it doesn't care about the whole world?
Of course, the old wines in the market, I don't recommend you buying or even drinking. Some people may reciprocate, but this expectation is largely followed by a guest house that only costs 50 yuan a night, stepping over the dusty foot pads, and then picking up the beauty cards tucked through the cracks in the door, expecting to start a pink memory.
Buy this, it is really better to buy a fake wine to drink.
No one will be disappointed in the antiques in the east of the city, open the door every day, and go shopping at any time. If one day this place disappears, then Xi'an Baqiao Ten Mile Shop will be no different from all the places called Ten Mile Shop.
When I left the antique trading market, a boss stopped me, brother, you shoot a few more, after someone looks for you to buy, you casually quote, come back to me, I give you a reserve price!
At that moment, I was in a trance to see a door to richness slowly opening to me.
Author | Chen Zhen | Chastity author