Everyone must have a room to live in, "there is a nest of the Chao clan people to erect wood for the nest", which is recorded in the Chinese history books, this kind of legend, this kind of record is very valuable. It is not mythical or religious, it does not say that the house is given by God, but that human wisdom and labor creation Xi. This old-fashioned, unpretentious idea should be well inherited. Naturally, when the house developed to the era of the courtyard, its progress has far exceeded the era of "erecting wood for the nest". There is no need for everyone to "erect wood" by themselves, but only to find a construction factory, find carpenters and masons to buy materials to build.
Building a courtyard house has been roughly said in "Courtyard Construction", so there is no need to say more here. In fact, there were thousands of courtyard houses in Beijing at that time, and there were naturally people who built houses at the beginning, and most of the owners were not the people who built the houses at the beginning, and most of them were bought by others. The age of the courtyard houses in Beijing, to this day, there are still houses built in the Ming Dynasty, and as for the early Qing Dynasty, there are even more. Therefore, in the old days, most of the courtyard houses of Beijing people were bought and sold, sold and bought, constantly bought and sold, constantly repaired, and constantly lived. If it is the residence of a celebrity, then after one or two hundred years, although it has changed hands several times, it is still intact, and it is very meaningful for people to pay their respects. For example, the house of Yuewei Caotang, the former residence of Ji Xiaolan in Hufang Bridge, has been a rich and successful class, a celebrity residence, and a restaurant in it in recent years, but the house is still built during the Qianlong period, or even before Qianlong. It is said that Ji Xiaolan also bought someone else's back then, not built it himself. In terms of architectural history, the house is at least 250 years old.
The courtyard built of new bricks has a better wooden frame, such as a yellow pine wooden frame, which is very aged. Fifty or sixty-year-old houses, if they have been inhabited and maintained year after year, sometimes they still look like new. There is a house of Wang Lengzhai on the east side of Nanchang Street, which was built in the thirties. Wang Lengzhai was a very famous figure in the thirties and forties. At the time of the 77 Incident, he was the magistrate of Wanping County, and the sound of artillery on the Lugou Bridge made him famous all over the world, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Tokyo International Tribunal questioned Japanese war criminals, and he testified in court.
The house on Nanchang Street was built when he was the county magistrate, and it is very exquisite. The big red gate in the east of the road, along the gate facing the street a slip west room, six rooms, the gate is open in the middle of the three rooms in the south, enter the gate of an outer courtyard, there is a west room in the north and south of the gate, it is the house where the gatekeeper and the servant live. Turn left in the outer courtyard to a moon gate. Entering is the west courtyard, three large north houses, three east, three west, gray brick yard, the left side of the north house has a small ear room as a bathroom, it is a new courtyard house.
The gate of the outer courtyard is obliquely to the northeast, and there is a moon gate, and it is the east courtyard to enter, and the east courtyard is a slip south room, which is facing the hanging flower door. Entering the courtyard of the east courtyard, it is also a quadrangle courtyard with three easts, three wests and a north house, which is a typical pattern from the outside. But the interior is different, a slip of the east room from the location of the south room of the outer courtyard, has been connected to the position of the north room of the ear room, the courtyard looks, the outer courtyard faces the west of the east room of the two rooms, the inner courtyard of the east room of the three rooms, and in the interior is to open up a long slip, there are Western-style floor-to-ceiling windows facing the east, there are seven large windows. Uniquely, the window is the Jinshui River behind Zhongshan Park, sitting in front of this window, you can enjoy the Forbidden City Corner Tower, Wumen City Tower, Berlin behind Zhongshan Park, and the willow color along the Jinshui River. At night, in front of the window, you can look at the moonlight of Fengcheng and listen to the sound of oars of tourists in Jinshui River...... The interior decoration of this slippery east room is also exquisite, and all the floors can really be said to be unique. Standing on the riverside behind Zhongshan Park, you can see the appearance of this slippery house, Western-style windows, red and white exterior walls, reflecting in the water, completely like a beautiful Western-style building, no one knows that it is a courtyard house. The house is still perfect.
Wang Lengzhai's real estate, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, was sold to a general of the Jin army. After liberation, the property was sold to the government. The time was the end of 1949, and the price was equivalent to 2,600 horses of "Green Sunshine" city cloth. Why is this conversion? I'll talk about that later.
In the old days, Beijing residents lived in courtyard houses, except for a very small number of public houses, such as guild halls, most of the others were private houses, including personal properties, temple properties, and even royal properties, that is, the houses of the Qing Dynasty's internal affairs government and the palace's houses. For every family living in a courtyard house, only a very small number of their properties are built by themselves, and most of them are bought or rented. Mr. Lu Xun came to Beijing in the first year of the Republic of China and left Beijing in 15 years, and lived in four places: only the Shaoxing Hall in the southern half of Xuanwai Hutong was a public house, and the other Badaowan and the west three strips at the entrance of the palace were bought. According to Beijing's old Xi, it is "its own industry". The house in Brick Tower Alley is rented. This is because Mr. Lu Xun's economic conditions were relatively good at that time, and he could afford to buy the industry. For the general public, there are many families who live in their own houses and many of them live in single-family houses, and the poorer they become and the population increases, the more people rent houses.
Let's talk about buying a house first, and then let's talk about renting a house.
In the old days, it was not easy to buy a courtyard house. First of all, you have to find a Chinese person to introduce you and go around to see the house. After liking the price, negotiate the price, then sign the contract, transfer the money, and then go to the government office to go through the procedures for transferring property rights, pay taxes, and receive the new house deed issued by the government office. After these formalities are completed, the house can be considered your property, protected by law, and you can sell it to someone else in the future.
Land and houses were classified as real estate in the old society, and it was very troublesome to buy and sell, unlike buying other things, which were as cheap as a box of matches, as expensive as a car, a gold bar, and a diamond ring. If a buyer wants to buy a property he likes, he must first find a person to see a number of houses for sale in order to choose. When Mr. Lu Xun bought a house in Badaowan that year, he began to look at houses everywhere in February, the first to be introduced by Qi Shoushan to see the houses in Baozi Street and Blacksmith Hutong, Zhang Xiehe to see the houses in Guangningbo Street, Lin Lusheng introduced to see four or five houses with the name of the Hutong, and also looked at the land of Picai Hutong with Qi Shoushan, and Xu Jixuan introduced the houses in Jiang Zhaikou and Huguo Temple, and it was not until July 10 that he saw the houses in Badaowan, and finally liked it. But it took nearly half a year before and after. Moreover, Mr. Lu Xun not only had a high social status in Beijing at that time, but also knew him very well in all aspects and had many friends, so it was easy to find an intermediary introducer.
In the old days, there was no business specializing in real estate trading in Beijing for a long time, and whoever wanted to buy or sell a house had to first find a familiar friend or professional Fang Yazi, also known as "Slender Hand", from which it was introduced. In the old days, when buying and selling real estate, there had to be an intermediary to introduce you before you could sign the contract and go to the government office to go through the formalities. Without an intermediary, it is not legal. Even though the two parties are good friends, you buy and I sell, but when it comes to signing the contract, you have to ask another friend to be the intermediary introducer. Sign the deed for it to take effect. Both the buyer and the seller pay the middleman a fee as remuneration, which is called "commissioner", or "commission money". As usual, the seller pays 2% and the buyer pays 3%, which is commonly known as "three into two". If the house price is $3,000, the commission is $150. If both the buyer and the seller have servants in their homes, they should also share the servant's money, which is called "one inside the door and one outside the door." There are generally three types of situations regarding intermediaries in real estate sales:
1. Introduce by friends and be a middleman to make the transaction successful;
Second, the introduction of professional slender hands, so that both sides of the transaction success;
3. The buyer and the seller are friends, and the direct negotiation is successful, and the other acquaintance is a middleman to sign the contract.
Regarding the third situation, it is related to a very famous story in the literary world. When the famous poet Xu Zhimo's plane crashed, he was a professor at Peking University, and also a professor at Central University and Shanghai University. Usually Xu lives in Hu Shi's house in Beijing. Shanghai friends want to help him financially. The famous Jiang Baili family had a western-style house sold to a friend for 100,000 yuan, so he invited Xu Lai to be a ready-made introducer, asked him to come to Shanghai from Yanjing, and when the lawyer notarized, he signed the contract and gave him a commission of several thousand yuan to make up for the deficit in Shanghai. Xu came to Shanghai as promised, and after finishing this matter, he was anxious to rush back to Beijing, and he had an accident on a small postal plane...... Decades have passed, and it is still regrettable.
It is said that in the real estate purchase and sale of courtyards, it is more common for professional slender hands to introduce success. In 1920, the Commercial Press compiled the "Practical Guide to Beijing", which recorded the following words:
Slender hands, that is, the brokers of the south. Buying and selling real estate, leasing and borrowing money, etc., can be entrusted. If it is done, each will be rewarded. The general rule is to break two into three. If it is worth 100 yuan, the buyer will be paid 3% and the seller will be paid 2%. They gather in an old-fashioned teahouse on a large day to consult with each other. Therefore, everyone calls it running fiber.
In the thirties, the "Guide to Beiping" published by the Minshe introduced the slender hands in more detail. Wenyun:
The person who introduces the sale, the quality of the real estate, and the rental of the house is called the slender hand. This person has no real job, and he goes in and out of restaurants every day, and there are footprints of this person in all the large and small teahouses in the inner and outer cities. Specially designed to visit who wants to buy a house, where to have a house for sale, a little know the way, that is, to find their own, as a matchmaker, commonly known as "pull the house fiber", in fact, it is also the meaning of the people, all day long, hard work, so also known as "running fiber". There is a house for a long time, Yi and so on persuaded to sell, in the event of a happy funeral home, dare to persuade it to sell the house, hope that once successful, in order to win a little money, so there is a proverb of "ten fibers and nine empty, pulling is not light". Gaiping City's slender hand general rule, the property buyer pays 3 percent of the fee, let the property owner pay 2 percent, and the vulgar cloud "into three to two". All are based on the selling price of the industry, if the selling price is 10,000 yuan, the middle fee can get 500 yuan. The greater the amount, the greater the fee, and if both sides have servants, they should also be allowed to pay a portion of the fee. There is also this slender hand is being matched, and the other slender hand is added from the side, which is called "drilling fiber". There are also a number of people who have been talking about it for a long time, and then find a B fiber hand to join, and after success, the fee is shared by two or three people, depending on the number of fiber hands, and there is a transaction and the fiber is as many as eight or nine people. The buyer and the seller know that the fiber puller makes money from it, but they have to use it. Guy bought and sold two houses, each did not know each other, and there was no one to say, so it seemed that he could not talk to each other. And this delicate hand, there are real interests in the buyer, such as a certain house is not clean, a certain house has entanglements, non-such people do not know the details. And after the real estate transaction, the slender hand can replace the transfer voucher, file the case, pay taxes, receive the deed and other things. It is more appropriate than buying a house to handle it yourself. I also often do familiar Xi. Renting a house is different from buying and selling, and there are two or three parts. When you first move in, you pay two copies of the rent together, also known as one tea and one room, which means that one is renting and one is tea money, as the meaning of cleaning fees. If you want to move, you can stop paying rent for one month, which is called tea money. The fee is paid by the tenant at the discretion of the tenant, and the rent is about half of the rent. The three copies, except for one tea and one room, the rest will be returned to the Chinese fee, but when the two parties form a contract, they must bear the responsibility of the Chinese person and sign and draw.
The above two pieces of information show that in the old days, the importance of the slender hand in the purchase and sale of Beijing courtyard houses, including its role and the responsibilities it beared, both the buyer and the seller had to rely on them. The buyer is particularly important. In today's parlance, it means that you have the most up-to-date, detailed and reliable information about each property. Relationship Importance can provide the buyer with approximately the following situations.
One is the quality of the house, how the wooden frame is, the age of construction, whether the brick work is good, whether the location is good, and so on. Although these can be seen by the buyer when looking at the house, the buyer is not necessarily an expert in construction, and it is difficult to distinguish between good and bad. The buyer may be a foreigner, not necessarily familiar with the street situation, does not know the quality of the location, etc., all of which must be a good adviser to the buyer and provide reliable information.
The second is whether there is a dispute over the property rights of the house. For example, if the elders are still alive, the children of the unscrupulous stole the deeds and sell the ancestral property; the property owned by several brothers is secretly sold by one of them; the unworthy son secretly sells the real estate of the old mother's pension; the unworthy son secretly sells the property that has been mortgaged or has been repaid for debts; and the public property is smuggled and sold, such as the house of the guild hall and the house of the temple, and so on. If the buyer accidentally buys such a house with disputed property rights, it is very troublesome. A reliable handler can explain the property rights to the buyer and avoid all kinds of disputes.
The third is that the house has special circumstances, and the slender hand knows better. In the past, people were superstitious - and naturally people are not necessarily superstitious now, and there are often superstitious legends about houses. For example, in the old days in Beijing, there was a legend of the four murderous houses, and no one dared to live in these houses for rent, and no one dared to buy them for sale. When I was in the first year of junior high school, my middle school dormitory was one of the four murderous houses. First as a dormitory, then as a girls' school building, every day the sound of books, singing, laughter...... Fill up the space and never be haunted again. But our children listened to the story of the old school worker, and in the middle of the night, they heard a "pop", and the windows were all open, and we unconsciously felt very terrible. Don't say that a well-known murderous house is a house that has had a murder case, and a house where someone hanged himself or committed suicide by jumping into a well, and generally no one buys it. Naturally, the seller can hold his hand, promise him some benefits, and let him hide some of them, it's okay. However, when the slender hand encounters a shrewd buyer, he does not dare to do so, because this is tantamount to deception, and the buyer will find out in the future that he wants to find a back account and fight a lawsuit.
Fourth, negotiate the price for the buyer and the seller, the buyer wants to pay less, cheaper, the seller wants to get more money, don't sell cheaply, this is the natural psychology of the buyer and the seller. The slender hand can speak well, press it here, mention it there, say it left and right, and you can say that the transaction is successful, which is beneficial to both parties who are sincere in buying and selling.
Fifth, they are very familiar with the property right documents, that is, the deed paper, as well as the deed transfer procedures, how to pay taxes to the official office, and how to obtain a new deed, and can lead and assist the buyer and seller to go through various complex procedures. In the old days, a courtyard house, the owner of the property, had to hold several documents. A "official deed", that is, when you build a house or buy a house, after paying taxes in the official office, the "official deed" issued to you, the official office printed format, on which the name of the original owner, the name of the new owner, the location of the house, the area, the number of rooms, four to (that is, east, west, north and south are what. For example, the south is adjacent to the street, the west is adjacent to the house surnamed Zhang, the north is adjacent to the house surnamed Li, and the east is adjacent to a certain alley). And indicate the source of the house, whether it is newly built, or who bought it, and how much it costs. "Official deed" refers to the deed paper issued by the official office. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Beijing implemented housing donations, and all old houses were re-taxed regardless of whether they were sold or not, that is, they paid a sum of money to the official office and received a new deed paper, all of which were accompanied by a blueprint. Therefore, after the twenties and thirties, in the transaction of Beijing courtyards, the first thing to see if there is a blueprint is to see if there is a blueprint, if there is no blueprint, the official deed is incomplete, and the buyer can not do a new deed after buying it. This is very important. In addition to the official deed, the second is the "draft deed", when the property is purchased, the first time the buyer, the seller, and the Chinese signed and pledged the sale and purchase contract, although there is no official seal, but this is a contract for the sale and purchase, which is legally effective. The third is the "old deed", that is, the contract of the previous owner of the seller, such as the house built by the surname Zhang in Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, there should be the deed paper with the surname Zhang; the deed paper sold with the surname Li in Guangxu, and the deed paper with the surname Li, sold with the surname Wang in the early years of the Republic of China, and sold with the surname Zhao in the thirties, and the real estate changed hands several times, these deed papers have been transferred again and again with the real estate transaction, as the original certificate, the source of the real estate can be proved, and these deed papers are called old deeds. These documents, when selling and buying a house, are clear about which are important and which are secondary, and can be a good adviser to both the buyer and the seller, so as not to cause the formalities to be incomplete.
The buyer is introduced by a friend or a slender hand, and goes around to see the house to be sold, and after taking a fancy to it, he negotiates the price with both parties as an intermediary, and when the price is negotiated, he makes an appointment with the place and writes a draft contract. It is usually hosted by the buyer, and the appointment is held in a restaurant. When Mr. Lu Xun bought the Badaowan house and the Xisanjo house, his diary recorded the situation when the draft contract was signed. Badaowan was bought on August 19, 1919, and recorded as follows:
Bought Luo's house, received the deed in Guangheju at night, and paid 1,750 yuan for Jianquan first, and 175 yuan for Zhongbaoquan.
Nishisanjo was bought on December 2, 1923, and recorded as follows:
At noon, a contract to buy a house was established in Longhaixuan, West Chang'an Street, and 500 should be paid, and the old deed and the new deed should be collected. With the same meal, sitting in the middle of the Yi Libu, Lianhai, Wu Yuechuan, Li Shenzhai, Yang Zhonghe and I a total of six people, after the meal and Wu Yuechuan to the second branch of the fourth district on the right to test the new deed.
This is the first time that the contract is signed after the purchase of the house, the seller gives the deed to the buyer, and the buyer hands over part of the house price to the seller, which is called "a few percent of the payment". Generally, the minimum is 50%, and the maximum is not more than 80%. The rest of the price will be paid when the house is received. Because he got the deed, he only got the property right of the house, and he didn't get the empty house and the right of residence. If there are still people living in the house, and the buyer cannot get a vacant house, it cannot be regarded as a real house. Mr. Lu Xun bought a house in Badaowan, and more than a month after signing the draft contract, he recorded a diary on October 5: "In the afternoon, I went to Xu Jixuan's apartment, recruited him to go to Badaowan, received nine rooms, and handed over four hundred springs." On November 4, he also recorded the clouds: "In the afternoon, I went to Badaowan with Xu Jixuan to meet the surname Luo and the Chinese people, handed over 1,350 to the spring, and collected the house." "This is because after signing the draft agreement, it took two or three months to get the house in full and pay the price in full. During this period, the original owner or original tenant can calmly find a house to move, or buy another small yard, or rent another house, and have enough time.
When a new owner buys a house, he or she must obtain a new deed, pay taxes, and pay them in proportion to the house price. After Mr. Lu Xun bought the house in Nishisanjo, there are two records about these procedures. January 10, 1924 diary cloud:
In the afternoon, I went to the municipal office to obtain a voucher for buying a house and made a drawing, glued one, and paid a fee.
Twelve diary clouds in the same month:
In the afternoon, he went to the Hutong Tax Office of the Division with Li Shenzhai to pay the house tax and made a discussion of 750 yuan. Pay forty-five dollars in taxes.
Diary cloud on February 22 of the same year:
Go to the tax office of the Hutong of the division to get the official deed paper.
This is to buy a new house, receive the housing certificate, blueprint, and then use this as the basis to pay taxes at the tax bureau, and then go to collect your "official deed paper", so that the task of buying a house has been completed. If the formalities are complete, the house will be considered your property and will be protected by law.
Mr. Lu Xun bought the house price of Badaowan for 3,500 silver dollars, and the house price for the west of the palace gate was 800 silver dollars. According to the house price at that time, the price was not too expensive. Because in terms of location, both places are relatively remote. At that time, the most expensive housing prices in Beijing were the streets and alleys on the left and right sides of Qianmen, because most of them could be used for commercial purposes. For example, Shijia Hutong and Jinhao Hutong, the same courtyard, can open money banks, invoice numbers, and goods bureaus, and do thousands of businesses. The second class is the big alley in Dongdan and Dongsi, and the second class is outside Xidan, Xisi and Xuanwumen, which are all residential areas, and the mansion gates are mostly concentrated in the big alleys in these areas. Badaowan is close to Xinjiekou, and Xisantiao is close to Baita Temple, although it is not yet sticking to the north city root, the west city root, etc., but it is a little biased. For the same house, if it is changed to the big alley in the center, the house price will increase by at least three or four percent. For example, if the house in Badaowan was changed to the big alley in the north and south of Dongsi, it could be sold for five or six thousand yuan at that time. Before the twenties, the price of gold was cheap, and in sixty years, this house was worth a hundred taels of gold, which can be said to be a fair price.
Beijing is the national capital for hundreds of years, is a place where the humanities gather, every inch of land is expensive, since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, housing prices have been rising, a small courtyard house, is quite valuable. There is a piece of material at hand that you can get a little idea of. Qing Zhang Jixin's "Daoxian Huan Hai Records of Experience" Xianfeng Nine Years Chronicles:
Chen Gui, a family member, in the first year of Xianfeng, due to the difficulty of making a living, begged to borrow 1,000 taels of Lao Cao Wen, and the whole year was three cents. According to Dalin, the silver is not owed. The rest of the long vacation does not return, so that it is clean. Chen Gui was disheartened, and the hard work came again, only three hundred taels of silver, seven hundred taels of short, and Yi bought a house in Daji Lane as an offset, and the rest of the relatives looked at it, and the price was made according to the time, but it was worth two or three hundred gold, and there was nothing to do, so it had to be finished.
Borrow 1,000 taels of silver, 3 cents per annum, 30 taels per year, pay interest every year from the first year to 9 years, pay interest every year, have been paid for eight years, total 240 taels, and then return 300 taels, already 540 taels, at that time the price was stable, silver was hard currency, no loss. Therefore, the person who owes a thousand taels is seven hundred taels on the surface, but only four hundred and sixty taels in reality. Settle debts with real estate in Daji Lane. The creditor deliberately devalues the real value of the debtor's property, which is actually enough to offset the debt. The number of houses in Daji Lane is not specified. But it can be speculated. Daji Lane is in the fruit lane of Xuannan Luoma City, east and west small alleys, which was one of the main residential areas of Beijing at that time, but there were no big houses, they were all small quadrangles, and the houses were shallow, so the largest house was only a small five-room quadrangle, or even a three-chamber small quadrangle. But its value was not low, it was worth four or five hundred taels of silver, which was about ten taels to twenty taels according to the gold price at that time.
By the time Mr. Lu Xun bought a house in Beijing, the price had risen a lot. After Xinhai, during the Beiyang government, there was a false prosperity in Beijing, and hundreds of members of the Senate and the House of Representatives had an income of 500 or 1,000 yuan a month, and almost all of them could buy a small house with a monthly salary. For example, Mr. Lu Xun, who worked for the Ministry of Education, was 280 yuan a month, but by 1919 it had risen to 300 yuan a month, and the things were extremely cheap. Therefore, if you save a few months' salary, you can buy a small Sihe, and if you save for two or three years, you can buy a large Sihe. Moreover, at that time, the warlords of various provinces, large and small, all wanted to buy houses in Beijing, and these people plundered countless amounts of money from all over the country, not to mention the extra-large and sub-large warlords, even those who were division commanders and regiment commanders, and they didn't care if they took a thousand or eight thousand, and they all wanted to scrape enough land to come to Beijing to be a public residence, so before they arrived in Beijing, they all wanted to buy a house in Beijing first, hire someone to watch it, and live at any time. Therefore, throughout the period of the Beiyang government, the purchase and sale of courtyard houses in Beijing has been very prosperous, and the housing prices have not been low.
After the government moved south in 1928, Beijing was in a state of depression for a while because of the relocation of the powerful people in the DPRK, but then the Shanxi warlords took over Beijing, and the warlords from the northeast took over Beijing, and the big and small leaders of these groups all bought industries in Beijing and settled down. Coveting a stable life, comfortable living, developed culture, cheap prices, and easy life in Beijing is also conducive to educating the next generation. Therefore, in the 10 years from 1928 to 1937, the courtyards in Beijing, which were relatively neat and had a certain pattern, were generally worth about 3 to 4,000 yuan, that is, the value of 40 taels of gold, as long as the location was not too remote and there were no property rights problems.
The July 7 Incident, a cannon rang out at the Lugou Bridge, many people fled Beijing, and many houses were vacated in Beijing for a while, but soon the traitor regime was established, and the Japanese poured in in large numbers, and the price of houses soon rose again.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the demobilized personnel from Chongqing, the "five sons of Dengke", snapped up a large number of houses with US dollars and gold bars, and the price of Beijing courtyard houses was not low until the eve of liberation. Here are two examples. In the summer of 1948, the generation people bought a small courtyard in Hufang Bridge, a small courtyard house in the south and three north, and three in the east and three west, but it was relatively neat, with a set of sanitary equipment, and the bargaining price was 40 taels of gold, which was converted into silver dollars at that time, which was equivalent to 2,000 silver dollars. A large sihe in the east forty-two strips, the house is slightly old, the wood is good, the layout is five rooms, very standard, sold for 65 taels of gold, or 3,250 silver dollars, and its price is at least 50 percent higher than when Mr. Lu Xun bought the house in Badaowan.
From the time when Mr. Lu Xun bought the house until the July 7 Incident in 1937, although the house price was slightly high, the currency did not depreciate, so the purchase and sale of the house were negotiated in the prevailing currency, hundreds of thousands of dollars, from the negotiation to the payment, there was no big difference. Buyers and sellers pay conveniently, and neither loses.
After the July 7 Incident, Beijing fell, and the market economy began to fluctuate little, and soon inflation and prices rose, and the purchase and sale of houses was not an immediate transaction, and the difference between the bargaining time and the payment was one month, and the negotiated price would depreciate a lot, and the seller would suffer a big loss. As a result, the price was later calculated in gold. In this way, until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the liberation of the whole country, they were all denominated in gold, and even if the gold was not paid when the payment was made, it was converted to the gold price of the day.
After the liberation, in 1949, the public bought a house to be used as a dormitory for various units, but because the price of goods was still unstable, it could not be denominated in currency, nor could it be valued in gold. In this way, the most ordinary cloth is used to judge the value, and the most common "green sunshine" brand city cloth pays attention to how many pieces of cloth. Generally, an ordinary courtyard house has a better location, and it can sell four or five hundred pieces of sunshine market cloth. At the price of cloth in the thirties, it is equivalent to three or four thousand silver dollars. I remember that the house on Nanchang Street in Wang Lengzhai, which I introduced earlier, was sold for 1,650 pieces of sunshine cloth. Because it is a first-class area, it is a very new building, and it is very beautiful, and the east river house has a great view...... All kinds of conditions, so the price is relatively high, according to the silver dollar conversion, it is more than 10,000 yuan.
Reminiscing about the transactions of the Beijing courtyard houses in the old days, the above is generally a miscellaneous description, which can be used as a reference for future experts who study the social history of Beijing.
Source: Deng Yunxiang "Beijing Courtyard"