Nowadays, if you eat hot pot or barbecue, you will order a large sour plum soup to relieve the spicy and greasy, but do you know that this sour plum soup is still related to antique shops? Today's story begins with two shops in the Liuli Factory, one selling sour plum soup and the other an antique shop.
It was opened in the first year of Tongzhi (1862), closed in the thirty-first year of the Republic of China (1942), and opened in Liulichang for 80 years. From its opening to the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917), these 55 years were booming, gradually becoming the largest and most authoritative antique shop for liuli factory appraisal and operation of calligraphy and painting, and then gradually declined.
So what does this ancient fast have to do with the Xinyuan fast that we are going to talk about today?
In other words, this ancient zhai kai is not far from the north of the road at the west entrance of the East Liuli Factory, while the Xinyuan Zhai is in the south of the road. Some people say that Xinyuanzhai is a honey fruit shop opened by the treasurer of Guzhai Xiao, and some people say that The ancient zhai is an antique shop opened by the owner of Xinyuanzhai, so what is going on?
When Qianlong opened the museum to revise the Siku Quanshu, Ji Xiaolan led a group of Qing Dynasty "high-level intellectuals" and worked hard for 10 years. The Liuli Factory is a must-go place for Ji Xiaolan, because the source of the book is there. A man surnamed Xiao from Hengshui County came to Beijing LiuliChang to sell tea and wait for passers-by. There was a Hanlin who saw the courtesy of selling tea, gave him the idea of selling sour plum soup, and passed on to his court the secret recipe for making sour plum soup, and rented a house to make it from then on. After 10 years of repairing the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book", the editors led by Ji Xiaolan also drank sour plum soup for 10 years.
Just to be able to drink the sour plum soup made by the secret recipe of the court, the dignitaries and scholars are not satisfied, and they can taste the flavor of the court all year round. Therefore, they gradually copied out the secret recipes for making preserved fruits, preserves such as preserved peach, preserved apricot, preserved sand fruit, preserved apple, golden jujube, candied red fruit, candied begonia, dried apricot, rock sugar gourd, rock sugar pear cake, rock sugar walnut, autumn pear paste, etc. in the palace, and made them by Xinyuan Zhai for them to eat.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the two emperors weng Tonggong once wrote a phrase for Xin Yuanzhai entitled "Trade winds open to the road mi path, yuanpu fenlai Lan Huixiang". Zhu Yifan, the teacher of the last emperor Puyi, was very appreciative of Xinyuanzhai's preserved honey fruit and sour plum soup, and once inscribed a plaque with the inscription "Xinyuanzhai Honey Fruit Shop" and hung it on the lintel. Among the literati and celebrities, Xin Yuanzhai also enjoys a high reputation, and Mei Lanfang, Shang Xiaoyun, and Ma Lianliang often visit in person.
In the early days of the liberation of Peiping, the brand name of Xinyuanzhai once disappeared, and in 1955, the Beijing Municipal Government reorganized manpower, invited back to the teacher Fu (including the descendants of the Xiao family with business ability), restored the old brand, and the products were exported to Many countries and regions in Hong Kong, China, and Southeast Asia. Later, because the equipment and sanitary conditions could not meet the export requirements, it once disappeared. In 1984, in the years of reform and opening up, Beijing Xinyuanzhai Food Factory and Xinyuanzhai Honey Fruit Store resumed business one after another.
The Xiao family in Hengshui County made a fortune selling sour plum soup, preserved fruits, and preserves in the Liuli Factory during the Daoguang era, and Old Man Xiao took his son to Beijing to study, hoping that his son would be admitted to the academy and enter the army, and change the Xiao family's style. Xiao Bingyi grew up, but his eight strands of literature were not good, the township test failed, and he did not take the position, so he chanted poems and painted all day long. The money earned by the Xiao family in making and selling sour plum soup was used to buy calligraphy and paintings, and after a long time, he consulted with his father to open a calligraphy and painting shop.
In the first year of Tongzhi (1862), the treasurer of Xinyuan Zhai xiao asked Daoguang Jinshi Liu Huannian to write a six-character plaque of "On the Ancient Zhai Tibetan Painting Place", which was hung in front of the paved room opposite the door of Xinyuan Zhai. With the support of the patrons of XinyuanZhai, on the ancient gate of the city, on the ancient zhai gradually became a literati scholar visiting the glass factory "a landscape", people called it "Art Garden Gallery".
Xiao Bingyi died in the sixteenth year of Guangxu (1890). He had five sons, the eldest son, Xiao Weibang, studied calligraphy and painting appraisal and management, and the third son did honey fruit business in Xinyuanzhai . Siu Weibang has been operating the ancient fastest, from 1890 to around 1921.
Xiao Weibang was old in the early years of the Republic of China, and his fifth brother Yun Zhang assisted in the management of the ancient zhai. By the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917), the Xiao family was already a large family of dozens of sons, and the five brothers had to separate the family. Xiao Weibang died in 1921, and Xiao Yunzhang also died in 1924, and the ancient zhai was run by Xiao Shaoyun, the son of Xiao Yunzhang, but Xiao Shaoyun's eyesight to identify calligraphy and painting was not strong, and he was inexperienced and did not dare to do big business. Since Xuan Tong left the Forbidden City, he began to sit and eat the mountain air, and because of the thick bottom of the goods, he ate for 18 years, until the second year after the outbreak of the Pacific War (1942), when it was closed and closed.
Close the zhang to clean up the bottom of the goods, ask the companions to see the goods, and auction the bottom of the goods. There was a chicken blood stone fangzhang that had been placed on the façade for many years, the surface was black, and when it was seen by peers, it said, "Shaoyun!" Give me this black stone stamp. Xiao Shaoyun agreed, "You take it." As a result, the skin surface of the black stone seal was carefully polished by others, showing several bright red chicken blood on the ground of lotus powder. This stone seal has been placed on the shelves for decades, darkened by the sun, and then reappeared in its original appearance after pondering, and its value has doubled.