Tibetan play style

Chapter 17

Liulichang Street is located outside the Heping Gate of BJ. It is a famous cultural street in BJ. It originated in the Qing Dynasty. There are many shops, forming a strong cultural atmosphere.There are many shops dealing in antique calligraphy and painting here.Most foreigners come here to travel in Beijing.

There are many famous old stores in Liulichang, such as Huaiyin Shanfang, Ruguzhai, Guyizhai, Ruichengzhai, Cuiwenge, Yidege, Li Fushou Bizhuang, etc., as well as the largest old bookstore in China, China Bookstore. And the three original bookstores in Xiliulichang - Commercial Press, Zhonghua Bookstore, and World Bookstore.The most famous old store in Liulichang is Rongbaozhai.

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Some people say: Liulichang is famous for its famous cultural old shops such as Rongbaozhai.This statement has its truth.The predecessor of Rongbaozhai was "Songzhuzhai". During the Guangxu period, it was renamed "Rongbaozhai" after taking the meaning of "making friends through literature, honoring the name of treasure".The famous calligrapher Lu Runxiang inscribed the words "Rongbaozhai".

In the late Qing Dynasty, literati and inkmen often gathered here, and the older generation of calligraphers and painters during the Republic of China, such as Yu Youren, Zhang Daqian, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, etc., were also frequent visitors here.I wonder if you have carefully watched the movie "The Founding Ceremony" and the photo of "The Founding Ceremony". The ruler used by the famous old man with a long beard, Mr. Shen Junru, was bought in Rongbaozhai.

Except for the bookstore, Liulichang is an antique shop. At that time, "antique" was called "antique", which means antique, and it was called antique later.

"Antique" is called "Wenwan" in the literati population, which means the things that literati play elegantly. From the perspective of history and culture, it is also possible, because it is not common for ordinary people to play with these antiques. Only with some historical and cultural knowledge, its meaning is wider than "antique", because it includes new ones, not just old ones.

Antique shops are reserved for the rich and powerful, and ordinary poor scholars dare not visit them.In "Tengyin Miscellaneous Notes", Cheng Jinfang immigrated and sent Yuan Mei with a poem. In the poem, there is a sentence "the family rests on the horse to comment on the rare treasures, and the cold customer stands in front of the old book", which shows that antique shops have always been patronized by powerful gentry. , Most people can only choose some high-quality and cheap old books at second-hand bookstalls.

And Xu Yunhan's target today is those street stalls. As for the shops on both sides of the street, even if there are good things, she either can't afford them, or there is not much profit in reselling them, so she doesn't enter those shops at all.

At noon, there were not many people on the streets of Liulichang, most of them were stalls selling things, and the stalls were crowded together under the shade of a few trees, and the shop curtains were drawn to prevent the air-conditioning in the house from escaping.

Xu Yunhan wiped the little beads of sweat from her forehead, and sighed in her heart, it would be good to lose weight. If she was still the same tonnage as before, now that she was sweating, she would look like she just climbed out of the swimming pool.

There were not many stalls at this time, so Xu Yunhan glanced at it and walked towards a shaded area where several stalls were concentrated.

"Sister, take a look."

"Okay, I'll give you a discounted price."

"Yes, girl, you choose slowly..."

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Several stall owners greeted Xu Yunhan warmly, but most of their attention was still on the chessboard placed among them.

There are stone carving inkstones, paperweights, many old comic books, various tickets, root carvings, and some small ornaments on these stalls. There are various and miscellaneous things.

Xu Yunhan squatted on the ground, looking at the gadgets on the stalls, picked up the ones that looked pleasing to the eye, touched them, put them down if there was no temperature or abnormality, and changed them. Repeatedly, the things in these stalls were quickly removed After reading all of them, Xu Yunhan was very disappointed in the result. Among so many things, none of them were old objects. Xu Yunhan was about to go to the booths on the other side to have a look.

Suddenly he heard a noise not far away, and the nature of Chinese people who love to watch the excitement was undoubtedly revealed at this time. Just as Xu Yunhan heard the sound, he saw that several stall owners who had just been concentrating on playing chess and shaking their fans had already roared to Walking forward, the shop called "Jubaozhai" in front of it was already full of people inside and outside. There were no people on the street just now, and these people rushed out without knowing how.

Xu Yunhan stood on tiptoe and looked around. Even with a height of 170+, she couldn’t see clearly what was going on in front of her. Maybe it was a sequelae of being a reporter. She always wanted to find out where there were crowds. I squeezed in sideways, but saw a hand in the crowd, taking out a wallet from the bag, but the hand taking out the wallet was not the owner of the bag.

'Thief! This idea immediately popped up in Xu Yunhan's mind, she subconsciously wanted to step forward to stop the thief who was stealing, and suddenly found that there were two or three people in the crowd who were a little sneaky, deliberately sneaking into crowded places , It is estimated that these people are all in the same group.This kind of gang commits crimes,
After calming down, Xu Yunhan didn't dare to go up to catch the thief directly. She has been a reporter for several years and has a good understanding of this kind of social situation. After a long time, she can also see some people who are engaged in this kind of business. Some of these people are alone. Heroes, but most of them act together in groups of three or five. Once someone misses, someone else will move up to transfer the stolen goods and make a fuss. What's more, they will directly threaten the owner so that they will swallow their anger and dare not report the crime. In this way, even if the thief is caught on the spot, there is nothing he can do about it, let alone avoid the subsequent revenge from this group of people.

But if Xu Yunhan just sit back and ignore it, she can't do it. She looked at the one being stolen by a pickpocket. It was for a young girl, with a ponytail and a flick of the ground. She was very happy watching the excitement. He didn't pay attention to his satchel at all.

"Hey~ why are you still here? I've been looking for you for a long time. Come with me. If you don't leave, you will be late."

Xu Yunhan rushed into the crowd, bumped into the thief inadvertently, interrupting him from stealing, then dragged the little girl out while shouting, paying attention to those people from the corner of her eye, the man who was bumped by her , looked back at the two of them, and then disappeared from Xu Yunhan's sight in a few flashes.

"Hey~ stop, stop~" Dai Xiaobei pulled back her arm that was being pulled, and was about to speak, but seeing that the situation was not good, Xu Yunhan hurried to her ear and whispered,

"Don't talk, there are pickpockets staring at you, what's the matter, come with me to the side of the crowd and talk, pay attention to your bag."

Xu Yunhan stopped when he was some distance away from the group of people but not too far away from the crowd, turned around and said to the little girl behind him, "Just now I saw the man standing behind you holding the iron tongs and pulling away Your satchel is taking out your wallet, and the thief seems to have several accomplices in the crowd, I dare not confront you head-on, so I can only pretend to be an acquaintance and pull you out."

(End of this chapter)