Fortune telling in Gangbei

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In Hakka spoken language, villages and towns are generally called "fairs", and the established market trading day is called "market day". As soon as the market day arrives, farmers pick their own food and daily necessities to trade in the countryside, and small traders are even more eager to move, transporting the goods from the city to the market and selling them loudly. The villagers who need to shop have squeezed all the money out of their bags, and they have enough bargaining power to drive to the market. This is called "going to market". Buyers and sellers complete the transaction and leave the market with the fruits of victory, which is called "scattered market"; The second day of the market day is called "the back day of the market", which is the day with the least business. General market vendors will go to the city to purchase or replenish goods at this time to prepare for good business in the next market.

There are different market days in villages and towns, which are generally divided into "147" market, "258" market and "369" market. In two adjacent market towns, their market days are always adjacent to each other and will not be repeated, so that both buyers and sellers can have trading opportunities. Each market has formed different characteristics according to historical habits. For example, the "chicken trip" in Xingning New North Market has a folk saying that "chickens sell well in the market"; The "lime shop" in Gangbei market is well known, and even Jiangxi Province has customers. The market with a large flow of people, a large transaction volume and a late market is called "tiger market"; On the contrary, it is called "Paley (a very small and fast-swimming fish) market".

Commodity trading on market day is generally classified according to commodity content, such as "rice noodles" in food; "Chicken mile trip" and "Pig mile trip" for livestock; Clothing category "cloth" and so on. Generally, the most lively market days are different vendors, rat poison, snake medicine, trauma medicine and fortune tellers. They may make up a jingle and sell it loudly, for example, "there is rat poison at home, one buys it, and ten are happy." They squeak at night, become stiff at night ... they fall off before they die ... "Almost everyone is familiar with it.

The pill seller put the bricks on the booth early to open bricks for everyone, but his kung fu was untied, and he was lucky again and again, but he didn't start playing; Fortune-telling pretends to be mysterious, spreads gossip and birthdays, and shows you the way to get rich. There is a cool saying about their circle-there are often "Jianghu" in Jin Yong's works, but there are few chivalrous people in the Jianghu-Hakka people usually call these people "vagrants".