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Market characteristics of mysterious temples

The mysterious temple is a famous Taoist temple in China and a traditional market with a long history. Feng Menglong said in the preface to "The Record of Warning": "I heard about the history of the Three Kingdoms from the mysterious temple." It shows that Xuanmiao Temple has an open-air bookstore in the next year. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were more and more vendors and became a lively market in the center of the ancient city, with snacks, daily necessities, stationery and toys, couplet calligraphy and painting, flowers, birds, fish and insects, medical astrology, Jianghu juggling and so on. This paper gives a brief introduction to the market situation of Xuanmiao Temple around 1930s reported by newspapers in the past, so as to get a glimpse of it.

Special snack

There are many kinds of snacks in Mystery Temple, such as rice candy, dumplings in grey soup, squid, smoked fish, bean jelly, lotus root starch, thousand pages, fermented dumplings, bean curd, sugar porridge, plum blossom cake, crab cakes, stir-fried beans, spiced tea eggs, chicken and duck blood soup, and the rest are noodles, steamed stuffed buns and chicken and duck blood soup. Famous food stalls include Wenkui Zhai, Guanzhenxing Noodle Shop, Wangyuanxing Fermented Soymilk Shop, Xiaoyoutian Lotus Noodle Shop, Wufangzhai, Liufangzhai and Qifangzhai. There are also two teahouses with a history of 100 years, namely Sanwan Temple and Pinfang. It can be said that the mysterious temple is the most concentrated place for Suzhou snacks.

Characteristics of new year pictures

Sanqing Hall is a traditional market for New Year pictures. After selling various New Year pictures published in Taohuawu, such as God Axis, Kitchen God, Door God, Bai Shou Picture, Songzi Picture, Phoenix Wearing Peony, Fish Leaping in Longmen, Three Friends in Cold Year, Five Blessingg, Yue Fei Resisting Gold, Guan Yu Reading Spring and Autumn at Night, Twenty-four Filial Pieties, etc., Shanghai's color-printed beauty pictures and landscape paintings came into view and were welcomed by the public. There are also couplets and vertical axes, which can be written by famous artists on the spot. The most famous is Wang Du, who has been writing couplets in Sanqing Hall for decades.

In the open space of the museum, various kinds of juggling are often performed, such as juggling, puppet show, monkey show, peep show, singing small burns, selling fists, talking about open-air books and so on. The place where gongs and drums are noisy is crowded with people, bustling and lively.

Medical divination and astrology

Medical astrology is a major feature of mysterious concepts. There are ancient secret recipes, quacks who specialize in treating asthma, tuberculosis and sore bones and muscles, dentists who have fixed teeth, and traumatology departments who treat trauma. The famous Ge Yunbin and Xie Ming De both set up stalls here. Fortune-telling, physiognomy and word-testing are concentrated on the road from Dongjiaomen to Niujiaobang. Some of them have a table and a chair on the street, and some have a museum called "Towel Tour". Seventy-two towels are complete. Some people say "measure the towel", the title of the bird is called "bird towel", Lahuqin says "clip the towel", taps the board with a small gong to say "circle the towel", says "chop vegetables and grab the towel in person", criticizes the eight characters and says "eight black", shakes the squad head and says "round head", opens the word and says "little black", and the blind man touches the card and says "look at the plum blossom". There are several kinds of physiognomy, such as palm reading and bone touching, among which Yi Jianming (real name) and Zhu are the most famous. There are Simingshan people, Wang Yizhou, etc. Yang Fengchao, Jiang, Ling Yunshan, Zou are the main fortune tellers. And Tan Huchen, Zhang Tianliang, etc. There are Wang Wenban and Liu Renban, who are famous for being as bright as a mirror. Also depends on Hongyun's (real name) turtle handwriting identification. He put the note written in advance with glue in the turtle shell with squid bone powder, and shook it a few times to show his handwriting to attract curious people. They either regard "Sai Zhuge" or "Little Fairy" as posthumous title, or claim to be "able to know the past and the future, and be good at judging good and bad luck", and take the marriage of men and women, family disputes, physical illness and death, and official prosperity as the calculation scope. As the saying goes, "Jianghu has a trick, don't tell your wife, you won't have food if you tell your wife!" " "However, this is obviously a superstitious scam, but countless people come to them for comfort. It was not until after liberation that they were arranged by the government to change jobs. The above shows that, because of its historical and geographical conditions, Xuanmiao Temple has become a lively place with Suzhou local characteristics, which is as famous as Beijing Tianqiao, Nanjing Confucius Temple and Shanghai Old Town God Temple. Suzhou people often say that "white flour is a porch", and foreigners must visit the porch when they come to Suzhou, which has become the consensus of people. With the development of the times, the mysterious temple is constantly changing, but it is not only a historical relic, but also a traditional market. This basic nature and feature has never changed. 1956 tidied up the vendors in the mysterious temple and kept the traditional characteristics of snacks. During the Cultural Revolution, the mysterious and wonderful market was cancelled. 1979 65438+February, 12 The candy tasting exhibition of cities and counties in Jiangsu Province was held in Xuanmiaoguan. Later, food stalls, clothing stalls, grocery stalls and sewing stalls became congested and became a restored market in Suzhou. After years of arrangement and planning, a unified kiosk has been built. There are more than 20 traditional snack kiosks in the south section of Xijiaomen corridor and more than 10 sewing booths in the north section. The southern section of Dongjiaomen is a clothing pavilion, and the northern section is a cobbler's stall; After Sanqing Hall, the fishing net and fishing gear market rose. 1985, Xuanmiao Temple has 157 booths.