The rise of Nanyaowangmiao Wholesale Street was because there were many small workshops of hats, purses and socks around Nanyaowangmiao at that time. These small workshops set up stalls to sell goods in front of Nanyaowang Temple every morning. After entering the Republic of China, all kinds of handicraft workshops flocked from far and near, and the number of booths increased from a dozen to fifty or sixty. Products include cloth shoes, leg straps, steel needles, cotton thread, ropes, towels, tobacco bags, mosquito nets, soap, hair oil, glasses, glasses cases and so on. These vendors set up their stalls before dawn every day and close their stalls at noon 1 1.
By the 1920s, there were nearly 300 stalls in this street, and there were about three or four hundred kinds of goods. From the south entrance of Shuidaozi to the north side of Dongjie Street, the booths are arranged in two rows, one next to the other, directly on the east side of Nanyaowang Temple.
At first, the merchants in this department store wholesale street were mainly small vendors who rushed to the temple fair to set up stalls and some businessmen nearby. Later, businessmen from other places also came here to operate, such as those from Hebei and Henan.
The number of stalls in the wholesale street of Nanyaowangmiao department store is increasing day by day, and the business is booming, which has attracted the attention of the government, and the government also regards this street as a way to make money. Since the late Qing dynasty, the government has also formulated some regulations, such as requiring stall owners to pay 30 copper coins to the government every month. In addition, the government also sells stalls at high prices, and the 2-meter-long and 1 meter-wide stalls are as high as 500 to 600 silver dollars.
In the late 1930s, shops began to appear in this street. The first store is Ji Cheng Yangguang Department Store Wholesale Store opened by businessman Zhou Zhixuan at 1937. Then, a man named Liu Huanting also came to this street and opened Yi Tong Jianyang Department Store Wholesale Store. Subsequently, the wholesale department stores jointly founded by Luan, Luan Ting and their brothers opened one after another, except for the generalized Cheng department store operated by Jin Xuan and the eternal store operated by Yang Shanting. 1939, the wholesale department of Zhao Yi Store also moved from the melon seed shop outside the front door to this street. These big department stores in old Beijing are concentrated in the future, which makes this department store wholesale street more prosperous.
The late 1930s and early 1940s were the heyday of this department store wholesale street. Every day, merchants from all over the world come here in an endless stream to discuss business. Among many shops and stalls, Zhao Yi Store has abundant funds, complete goods and prosperous business. The store employs about 200 people and directly purchases goods in Shanghai, Japan and other places. There are also employees in charge of promotion in the store, who specialize in running inner cities, outer cities, suburbs and inns. Employees who run outside often go to Qianmen, Flower Market outside Chongwenmen, Scarf Hat Hutong, Magpie Hutong and other inns to talk business with foreign businessmen.
193 1 After the September 18th Incident, Japanese goods flooded into the Beijing market. 1937 After the July 7th Incident, Japanese goods monopolized the department store market in Beiping. On the wholesale street of Nanyaowangmiao department store, the national industrial commodities in China are increasingly depressed, and the business of most mobile industrial commodity stalls is bleak.
1945, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, American goods replaced Japanese goods, and the stalls of ethnic industrial products on the wholesale street of Nanyaowangmiao department store still failed to improve. Due to years of war and looting by reactionary rulers, prices soared, and unscrupulous businessmen took the opportunity to speculate and hoard. Many stalls in the wholesale street of Nanyaowangmiao department store have closed down, and even the bustling wholesale department store is in jeopardy, and the whole street is dead.
After liberation, the Beijing Municipal Government strongly supported and re-planned the wholesale street of Nanyaowangmiao Department Store, stipulating that 10 stalls should be set as a group, and the price on the bridge should be clearly marked for generations to come. A few years later, by 1955, shops and vendors had gradually developed, reaching more than 3,000 households, and by 1955,
From 65438 to 0956, all the shops and vendors in this department store wholesale street participated in the public-private partnership, and later went to the department store wholesale company established in Beijing. Since then, the once famous commodity wholesale street of Nanyaowangmiao no longer exists.