In Houxi Village, Dianshi, Longdu Town, Chenghai, which is 30 kilometers away from Shantou City, there is a market of agricultural and sideline products that is still popular for more than 900 years and is still popular, called Dianshi Ancient Market.
The ancient market of Dianshi, which began in 1090, formed a commodity trading market in Chaozhou, Chenghai, Raoping, and even Fujian due to its special geographical location. The main ones are mountain goods, hunting prey, chickens, ducks and geese, cattle, piglets, bamboo products, agricultural and sideline products and so on. All along, business is booming and traffic is busy.
The ruins are open once a week, on Sundays, in the morning market, from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Early on Sunday morning, I drove to the market.
After arriving at the store, it was already crowded with people, and there was no parking space. This is exactly the same as the 70s commune (now the township) to catch the market, there are cats and dogs, ornamental fish, silkworm farming, chickens, ducks and geese, Southeast Asian imported toilet medicine stalls, green herbs, local snacks, pig's head dumplings, fried radish balls, dried tofu, fried pork skin, fruit noodles soup, and rice money in the store。。。。。 The fragrance is fragrant, the voices of people, chickens, ducks and geese, cats and dogs barking, birds, the shouts of kitchen knife stalls... Instantly, the desire to buy explodes, and immediately shuttle between the stalls to start buying.
Ornamental fish stalls, "sand man" betta fish, so big, black, should be a young and middle-aged betta fish, calm, as if it is the boss of the fish world, dogs are varied, all kinds of dogs, big wolf dogs are majestic, vicious, intimidating, puppies and kittens are competing for pets and selling cute, constantly flattering people or secretly sending autumn waves, big roosters, hens are a little pitiful, if they are favored by buyers, slaughtered on the spot.
Passing by a small stall, there was a little girl selling things, and I asked her what she was selling? She said that she sold tadpoles, and now, it is very difficult to see tadpoles, because the pesticides have killed the small fish and shrimp, loaches, water turtles, water mosquitoes, and tadpoles in the ditch. So, I bought tadpoles, and the cute little girl also helped me pick out a small plastic bottle of tadpoles, and told me: Mom said that the white ones are tadpoles, and the black ones are toads. So, I bought tadpoles and was going to raise them, and then I bought a swan to keep with the toad to see if I could collide with the sparks.
The ancient market of the shop market is indeed preserved some traditional things, but the feeling is still lacking the feeling of the market in the seventies, the market of that era, is the various communes (towns) take turns to sit in the village, the date is divided into 147, 258, 369 in turn, and there are many professional markets, such as cattle market, pig market, sweet potato market, and professional intermediaries, cattle, pigs, sweet potatoes. There are also those who walk the rivers and lakes, boxing, monkeys, snakes, dog skin cream, rat poison, shoe mending, keys, pots, water tanks, white iron, noodles, itinerant carpenters making wooden barrels, fighting crickets。。。。。 There are also some young men and women who are also dressed up in fancy clothes, women's grease and powder, red clothes and green pants, men's hair is shiny, fashionable watches, phoenix bicycles... Squeezing around in the crowd, or deliberately walking out or deliberately rubbing oil.
In the past, there were a lot of things and a lot of variety, but now many things are gone, and pesticides have killed too many things. The herbs "fly wings", "wind-blown vines", "fine-leaved snake tongue grass" and "gourd tea" are gone, and the "water turtles", "water mosquitoes", "foreign officials", "pigeon nine", "crickets" and "Du monkeys" in the water depressions are also gone.
The world is constantly improving, but there are also losses and gains, and it is normal for traditional things to be gradually eliminated, forgotten, or even extinct. The development of a new technology, a new product, will inevitably replace the old one and wipe out an industry.
Plastic products have replaced the traditional woodworking to make wooden barrels, and the automatic key machine has replaced the manual key matching. Computers have replaced manual drawing and design, and the emergence of AI has eliminated more people. In the future, with the development of science and technology, there will be more incredible phenomena. The traditional things will be further away from us ... But the Korean water flows, the ancient ruins of the shop market will continue forever, the iron bazaar, the passing customers of the flowing water, the flowers, birds, insects, fish, cats, horses, sheep and pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, cats and dogs are also passed down from generation to generation, and human beings coexist in this earth. It's just that many years later, human beings are driving flying saucers to buy fish, market managers and stall owners are AI robots, as soon as you walk in, the robot immediately calculates how much money you have? What are you going to buy? Where is the private money hidden? If you take your wife to buy something, you will definitely suffer a big loss, you want to buy two betta fish to play, the robot immediately refuses, telling you that you must buy the most expensive cosmetics for your wife, if you don't buy it, it will send WeChat to threaten you; if you don't buy it, hum, immediately tell your wife, how much money is in your private collection? Where are you hiding in your home?Where are you going to be chic?How many girlfriends do you have? So, you can only take one AI robot to go shopping together, that's even more troublesome, the two robots start to bargain because of the price of a green onion, like Liu Sanjie's song to the mountain, first argue whether the green onion is really a green onion? Is it a genetically modified crop? and then start to get into the topic, how much is this green onion worth? Two guys who are extremely good at actuarial calculations, each time the quotation and counteroffer are accurate to 999 decimal places, so from 5 o'clock in the morning when the rooster crows to open the market to the end of the market The chickens and ducks return to the nest. The robots are all overloaded and smoking, but still not a penny has been sold, one is a thousand-year-old fox, the other is a thousand-year-old king, and the two robots are playing chatting. In the end, I had to wait until the robot's battery ran out of power. At the same time, there are also more stalls selling robots in the bazaar, or buy a robot to be a husband or wife, a nanny, or buy a few robot fish and robot cats. At that time, the cloning technology was also perfected, and pandas and dinosaurs were also cloned into pets, and they also appeared in the ancient ruins of the store. Haha, when the time comes, the robot will be jealous of people, human-machine love, robot junior, robot violence... It can affect the stability of the family.
Everything is possible, the future is not a dream, let it be, this is the wonderful world.