1, rice and wheat line (rice line, wheat line)

The old book of Tang Dynasty - food and goods Zhizhi: Jianzhong first year (780) in July, the Royal Decree: "the constant peace, often make the price of grain such as abundance is not for the reduction of the big thrift is not for the increase, although the disaster, people do not have food color. From now on, when the price of rice is expensive, it is appropriate to measure out the official rice 100,000 stone, wheat 100,000 stone, the daily amount to pay the two city pedestrians to sell goods under the price."

This "two pedestrians", when referring to the capital Changan east and west of the two cities of rice and wheat line (or rice line, wheat line) of the head of the line. It can be seen here that there are rice and wheat lines (or rice lines, wheat lines) in the western city for grain trading.

2, cloth and silk line

"Old Tang Book - Xianzong Benji": Yuan and eight years (813) in the summer of April "C Xu, to money heavy goods light, out of the treasury money five hundred thousand guan, so that the two storehouses to collect the market cloth and silk, each section of the horse in the old estimate of the price increase of ten.

Anciently, generally hemp, kudzu weaving for cloth, silk weaving for silk, because the name of the cloth for tailoring clothing materials. The east and west of the two cities have a large number of cloth and silk, suggesting that the west of the city by the cloth and silk line.

3, silk line

Niu Shengru "XuanQiLu - WuQuanSu):" is introduced to the west of the silk line of the city south of the end of the family." "Zeli Wen Tingjun" dry film - Wang En): "today in the West City silk line to raise money."

This is evidence that there is a silk line in the West City. Silk is a plain raw silk fabric, mostly silk woven horse for this silk line when specializing in silk fabrics for the merchant house. Also, the silk company can "raise money" (i.e., money for goods), so it can be seen that the silk company also operates a loan business.

4, coat line

Wei Shu "two capitals new record": West City "city stores such as the East City system. In front of the city hall, there is a coat line. This "coat" is suspected of not being a garment in the general sense. According to this assumption, this "coat shop" is a "high-grade" shop dealing with women's dresses. It is appropriate that it was set up before the city hall. (Ordinary clothes are sold and bought in the clothing store).

5, timber line

Wen Tingyun "dry waist son - Dou and"): "Chongxianli have Cao Suixing, when (night) [court] born a large tree Suixing every problem with its branches and leaves over the years have hindered the court word ...... and please buy ... ... ...The middle-ranking officer was delighted. He offered 5,000 Wen to Nalang. With the axe chopping craftsmen to cut down its trees ...... sell in this line. The profit is more than a hundred times. The rate of its elite rate is also similar."

Duyi cut down the tree, "sold in the Bank". This "this line" refers to the timber business timber line. Li Xianli in the southeast of the West, not far from the West, and Dou and the scope of activities mainly in the West, so it is presumed to be the West timber line.

6, restaurant

Que name "Yat Shi - Qi Ying": "Qi Gong is traveling to the north of the western city, into a new house in the quiet place. ... people reported that there are sending hundreds of thousands of people, the old man said: 'This is a wine shop into. I will use one pill to make a jar of wine."

Wine shops are places for selling and drinking wine. There are many of them in the western city. Mr. Xiangda agrees with Mr. Ishida Gannosuke's explanation of "Jinshi" in Li Taibai ji that it refers to the western market of Chang'an. Liquor stores were often accompanied by workshops, and the system was "store in front and workshop in back". The "Sai-shi style" of sake must have been brewed at the Sai-shi sake brewery.

7. Clothes shop

Shen Shiji "Ren's biography": "Zheng Zi traveled, into the west city clothes shop, glimpsed, sac female slaves from. Zheng Zi suddenly called out, Ren's side to avoid in the thicket."

This clothing store is a marketplace for selling general clothing, which is different from the "coat line" that specializes in selling women's dresses. The biography of the Ren's said that Zheng Ziyou into the western market clothing store, suddenly saw Ren's maidservant, rushed to call out, Ren's reluctance to meet, can "sideways around in the thick of the people", it can be seen that this clothing store is an open-air market, and there are more people than a general store.

8, Paleo

Bai Xingjian "Three Dreams": "Changan West City, Paleo restaurant has a porridge to seek profit for the flat, surnamed Zhang, not very rich in wealth, living in the light of Delhi." ("All Tang Dynasty".

Pal is the ancient silk fabrics. This "silk shop" within the "porridge for profit and for the flat. "Porridge" is the same as "sell", and "sell porridge" means to sell, in the sense of selling. Inside this shop, there are those who sell cloth and silk as their business, and we can also know that this shop is an open market, not a general store.

9, divination

"Immortal Biography Gleanings": "Yang Bo Chou, Feng Yiyi Wuxiang people ...... Sui Kaihuang early, the Emperor searched for Yiyi Yin, known for its way, levied to the capital, to see the Secretary of the Court is not a gift ... ... often by the hair feints madness, marching in the city! ...... also opened a shop to sell divination, and the divination is not inaccurate."

The Original Chemical Records: "In the middle of the Kaiyuan period, there was a man surnamed Liu, who did not have a name and was seeking an official position under the guise of a shade...When he heard that there was an old man named Li who was good at divining in the western city, he made an appointment to ask for his fortune."

The diviner is the seller. Such industries do not need stores, or street stalls, or on the ground occupying the class diviner not only for people to measure the future, but also for the horse divination. Divination of doubt that the diviner gathered in the street or set and.

10, the evil house

"Two houses" refers to the east and west of the two evil house, "West House" refers to the West City of the evil house. Foul house operators, one for the production and sale of funeral such as terracotta figurines and other artifacts, one for the rental of square phases, vehicles and other funeral equipment, one for the general curtain, singing elegy, to participate in the funeral activities.

Archaeological survey in 1975, in the middle of the modern excavation of Xi-dajie in Xi-shi, found the remnants of terracotta figurines and terracotta figurine heads in the late Tang Dynasty, which is the evidence of the murder of Xi-shi.

The above are all unearthed in the West City line, which operates most of the Hu merchants, their excellent economic acumen, as well as exotic civilizations and the Chinese civilization collided with the combination of different sparks. For the Tang Dynasty culture injected a lot of fresh blood. The characteristics of the West combined with the traditions of the Central Plains. Trade in the Western Market was exceptionally prosperous.

Beginning in the Ming Dynasty, the sprout of capitalism appeared in China, and the commodity economy gradually developed in the towns and gradually penetrated into the countryside. Ancient Commercial Street refers to an ancient commercial street that was influenced by the commodity economy from the Ming Dynasty and developed to the present day.

The Shangtang Ancient Commercial Street is a rare historical material for examining the development of China's rural areas from a purely agricultural economy to a commodity economy, and it is also a witness to the excesses of Zhuge Village from a village of bloodline to a village of businessline. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the sprout of capitalism appeared in China, and the commodity economy gradually developed in the towns and gradually penetrated into the countryside.

Address: Zhuge Bagua Village, Zhuge Village, Zhuge Town, Lanxi City, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province

Zhoucun developed into an important commercial port in the north of China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was the location of the source of the Northern Silk Road. The town is fully functional, with perfect facilities, a clear division of labor in the market, and extremely prosperous business, known as the "world's first village", "Golden Zhou Village", "dry dock".

As an excellent representative of China's ancient commercial culture - "Main Street Ancient Mall", the neighborhoods across the street, quiet and simple, although after a hundred years of wind and rain, but still maintains a simple Ming and Qing Dynasty original appearance and historical color. Magnificent scale, unique architectural style, high level of construction, only in Shandong, rare in the north of the river, and still play its commercial function, known as the expert "living ancient commercial street city museum group".

Zhoucun is one of the sources of the ancient Silk Road, silk is a symbol of China's ancient culture, China's ancient silk industry for the Chinese culture embroidered a glorious chapter, to promote the development of human civilization around the world has made indelible contributions. Especially the silk of Rui Fu Xiang is famous for its excellent quality, exquisite color and rich cultural connotation.

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