Zhongshan is a small city, barely a third tier, but it is a livable city. 97 years also won the United Nations Habitat for Humanity Award of Honor. The city is not as high-rise, bustling and prosperous as the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, but there are shopping malls and large supermarkets, so there is no need to go into detail. But I want to say Shagang market is only unique to Zhongshan.
I'm not a native of Zhongshan, according to the locals, Shagang market, the traditional market day has a history of more than 500 years, the market site has changed many times, the current address was moved in 1998, covering an area of 200 acres. In fact, probably every city has such a place. For example, Shanghai's City God Temple, Beijing's Liulichang, Chengdu's Chunxi Road and so on. But Zhongshan's Shagang Hui and they are still a little different, more ecological point, because most of them are roadside stalls, built densely, not a fixed store. Usually Shagang market is not too many people, only when the old calendar of 3,6,9 market days, people will be more, if you meet the market day and happens to be Saturday and Sunday, it is certainly crowded, shoulder to shoulder, generally very difficult to park. Especially before and after the Chinese New Year, it is definitely a traffic jam. In recent years, you can often see Hong Kong and Macao tour group buses parked there, actually become a tourist attraction. I went to Guangzang Market in Seoul before Chinese New Year and felt that it was still a bit more awesome in Shagang Market.
The main reason why Sagang Market is booming is because of its excellent price-performance ratio. It seems like you can buy anything weird and strange, which is its best feature.
The most common things you can buy at Shagang Market are vegetables and fruits, clothes, shoes and bags. But in all fairness, Shagang market clothes shoes and bags really is not high grade, clothes I usually buy to wear twice can be used as housework work clothes. Athletic casual wear can buy buy, because Shaxi Town in Zhongshan is originally a processing area for casual wear, a lot of goods are directly from the manufacturer to take goods, so the price is very cheap. Son grows up fast, the key is not much brand awareness, so buy two pieces of Shagang market clothes can still be fooled. Near the barbecue near or two sell children's clothes foreign trade goods quality is good, but unfortunately the main sale of small children, there is no suitable size for the son. The rest of the clothes are not much to buy. But if you have the time to slowly poke around, you will occasionally find a few good goods, such as for the brand-name OEM cut label clothes, but this kind of is not to be found.
I usually go for vegetables and fruits most of the time. The original vegetables sold for 2,3 yuan, I feel that the price is not much different from the market, now the market vegetables sold to 8,10 yuan, and Shagang Hui only sold 6,8 yuan, will be cheaper 20-30%, the key to a lot of local farmers to grow their own, feel a little more at ease. The key is that many of them are grown by local farmers, so I feel a bit more at ease. Living at home will still save a lot of money in the long run. Of course, the elderly and housewives have time can, we work a family or not so much time.
Shagang market is divided into several blocks, there are agricultural food, vegetables and fruits, clothing, shoes and hats, home antiques, dried fruit, small hardware, daily necessities, Chinese herbs, pets, goldfish and turtles, repairing shoes and changing clothes of anything. Yesterday, when shopping, just thirsty, just freshly squeezed orange juice for sale, 6 yuan a bottle. Auntie in front of me with 6 half orange juice to squeeze a cup out, a little water does not add, the real real Vitamin C, I drank two big cups in one breath. Now there seems to be a snack area, but the hygiene conditions are really not satisfactory, I generally still rarely go there to eat.
The peak season for Shagang Market is a month or so before the Chinese New Year. Especially during the Spring Festival, the flower market in Shagang Market is particularly hot. This is because every family in Guangdong has a tradition of buying flowers and green plants for the Chinese New Year. For example, the wealth tree, bamboo, orange tree, daffodils, and so on, are all Bo a colorful, on behalf of the meaning of good luck. (There are many more, I can't remember, forgive me for knowing less.) There are also a lot of New Year's Eve products, in short, there is nothing you can't buy, only what you can't think of.
But when I'm here, I'm happy to buy some bargains, but my son doesn't like Shagang Hui, and he thinks it's dirty. It is true that the shopping environment in Shagang Hui is a bit dirty, especially in winter, when it rains, the field is full of mud. But even so, but Shagang market because of its very high cost-effective y loved by the general public in Zhongshan. In fact, not only my poor losers like, in fact, every market day, driving a luxury car to catch the market of the tycoon abound, luxury trunk put things and my hands to carry the same, so I am y satisfied again.