Liulichang pedestrian street

At that time, Liulichang was a dirt road with low shops on both sides of the street, and the bookstore at that time did not have counters and checkout counters. In one or two bookstores in frontice, all the walls are covered with bookshelves as soon as you enter the door, and each book is labeled with a bibliography and price. The window in the back room is the capital. There is a painted square table with plush chairs on both sides and couplets hanging between the walls. The content of couplets is inseparable from books-"It is better to read flowers than to get friends like the moon", "Everything is happy, flowers are more fragrant than reading", "It is useless to read national books" and "It is better to read books than to nourish the heart".

Liulichang is an antique shop except a bookstore. At that time, "antiques" were called "antiques", which were antiques, and later they were called antiques.

"Antique" is called "literary play" among the literate people, which means elegant things played by literati, but it is also possible from the perspective of history and culture, because playing with these antiques is not something that ordinary people can play, and it must have certain historical and cultural knowledge, which is more extensive than "antique" because it contains new things, not just ancient things. Antique shops are all for rich and powerful people, and generally poor scholars are afraid to ask. In Miscellanies of Fujin, Cheng Jinfang immigrated and sent poems to Yuan Mei. There is a saying in the poem, "The potential family stops to comment on rare books, and the cold customers go to the second-hand books stalls." It can be seen that antique shops have always been frequented by powerful gentry, and ordinary people can only choose some cheap second-hand books from the second-hand book stalls.

Since the Republic of China, industries such as Liulichang, bookstores and antiques have already declined. Especially during the fall of Beiping, bookstores were dying, and many shops closed down one after another. Just as a sentence in "The Old Capital of Zhi Zhu" said: "Reading sweeps the door everywhere, and Wanghai Village is as quiet as a forest. The leisure sea is estimated to be respected by the eldest brother, and the price of the Song and Yuan Dynasties to be painted in the Millennium is a depression.

In the word, Wanghai Village, the bookstore and antique shop in China, is located in the north of the east and west entrance of Liulichang, which was then called Wanghai Village Park. On the left in front of the garden, there is a photo studio with a portrait of a famous painter hanging in front of it. Among them, there is a portrait of Mr. Qi Baishi, wearing an inverted fox skin, wearing a black and purple lamb Turkish winter hat and holding a fan. There are a few words written by Baishi in the photo: "Shake the fan to cool off the heat and wear fur to keep out the cold. Both of them should be guarded every day, which makes people snicker and make people crazy. " To show the painter's loneliness, honesty and frank feelings. This photo is also a scene of Liulichang, and people always look at it.