Annual Collection of events during the Lunar New year

I haven't been able to catch up with the annual collection of my hometown in several years. The bazaar is a place for people's material exchange, and the rural bazaar is of great significance to meet people's daily needs, promote trade exchanges and develop social economy. When I studied political economy at school, when I talked about markets, commodities, economy, trade and so on, the first thing that came to mind was the market in my hometown.

What's the difference between going to the market and shopping in the mall? Although shopping malls are open every day, for rural people, the market is on their doorstep, so it is more convenient to go to the market. In addition, buy a spring onion, ginger and garlic, buy a shovel, sharpen a pair of scissors, get a haircut, raise a pig, buy a pig, and buy a few vegetable seedling sons, as the common people say, go to the temple and pack rat poison. This is exactly what the shopping mall cannot achieve. If you want to buy a pet in the mall, you can't buy it, but you can buy your favorite Persian cat in the market.

Rural bazaars bring together all kinds of sundries, such as hardware, agricultural materials, production, daily necessities and so on, which shopping malls, especially monopoly shopping malls, do not have. In addition to shopping, farmers want to sell a few extra chickens and ducks and sell agricultural and sideline products such as vegetables and fruits, which are also functions that shopping malls do not have. People who enter the mall can only be buyers, not sellers. The bazaar is different. you can go to the bazaar to buy the goods you need, or you can sell your own materials as merchants. According to your own purpose, the role of buying and selling can be changed. This is the main difference between bazaars and shopping malls.

In addition, the difference between going to the market and going to the mall is that the people in the market, regardless of the buyers and sellers, are mostly acquaintances of the three townships and five miles, who are comfortable to buy and sell, the price is high and low, and the weight is not enough. As I grew up in my hometown and worked in the county for some years, when I went home to attend a fair with the elderly, I would encounter my aunt pulling up a few family words and asking her to go home for lunch and take whatever was missing. It sounded warm. A feeling of homesickness melted into it, and I felt so kind.

The collection in my hometown is once every five days, and most of the villages and towns with more population and convenient transportation have fairs. According to the lunar calendar, there are several different markets around the lunar calendar, including lunar calendar one, six, two, seven, and five rows and ten. The flow of people shuttled to and fro in the bazaar, row upon row of stalls, a wide variety of goods, the hawking sound of vendors can be heard constantly.

Each bazaar is generally divided into regions, and the corresponding market can be found according to different purchase needs. Larger bazaars can be divided into grain market, poultry market, livestock market, clothing market, tea market, etc., especially the living and production market.

The goods in the bazaar have been changing with the times. In different times, there are obvious changes in both variety and quantity of goods on the market. During the Cultural Revolution, if you want to buy a washbasin for marriage, it is very popular, not that you can buy it. Even if you buy it, the color pattern of the washbasin is also very monotonous, except that the pattern of workers, peasants and soldiers is the words to grasp the revolution and promote production.

As for the different seasons, the goods sold are different, which is very understandable. Different seasons, different clothes, different vegetables. There are different commodities on the market on different festivals. No merchants sell moon cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival.

To sum up, the bazaar has many irreplaceable advantages, such as convenience, cheap price, fair buying and selling, rest assured of trading, complete goods and services, and so on. However, the bazaar also has its shortcomings. First of all, there is the problem of management. due to more people, more goods, more transactions, a serious shortage of managers and dereliction of duty, everything will be fine after collecting management fees, forced buying and selling of the market, and the management of individual vendors' quality and reputation is not in place. There are safety issues, the concentration of personnel, which may lead to stampedes, fires and other disasters, which should be paid enough attention by the industrial and commercial administration department. It is also necessary for the public security department to crack down on pickpocketing in the bazaar. The hygiene of the market needs to be guaranteed.

When it comes to the twelfth lunar month, it is time to go to the New year fair.

To catch up with the New year fair, mainly to purchase New year goods. The customs, eating habits and culture of the Spring Festival in different regions are different, and the purchases of New year goods are also different.

There are several aspects of the purchase of New year goods in my hometown. The first is to buy enough food, pork, beef and mutton is a big item. Buying meat is a very particular thing. People have to compare the quantity of meat they buy, and also exchange prices to see how good they are. How many parts of bacon can be made and how many parts can be filled with meat should be arranged. In the bazaar, we should also buy cured meat, pepper, fennel seed, cinnamon and tangerine peel, etc.

Also buy ingredients such as fungus, golden needles, Tremella, mushrooms, noodles, fresh tofu, frozen tofu, fried tofu and fried balls for cooking on New year's Eve. Also buy sausage casings, steamed meat loaf and boiled sausage. Buy dried fruits such as tobacco, alcohol, sugar, tea, melon seeds, peanuts and other dried fruits for guests during the Spring Festival. Chicken, duck, fish, meat, liver, stomach, intestines and other drinks should also be prepared. To eat dumplings in the first month, prepare a basin of pickled meat and vegetable dumplings. Prepare fresh vegetables for cooking. Steamed buns and bean buns and other staple foods should be steamed and prepared for consumption before breaking five. Glutinous rice dumplings including the Lantern Festival should be prepared.

In addition, food is the cultural necessities for the Spring Festival, such as couplets, New year pictures, firecrackers, portraits of the god of the New year, tribute to ancestors' graves, paper money, and so on.

Clothing is also an important part of New year's goods. Chinese New year, the new atmosphere of the New year, regardless of the elderly and children, everyone has to change into new clothes, new shoes and socks.

All these New year goods have to be bought back from the annual collection. Therefore, the scale of the annual collection can be imagined, which is much larger than the usual bazaar.

When it comes to the annual collection, there is a hubbub of people, shoulder to shoulder, one by one to find the New year goods you have purchased, and it is impossible to complete the task without catching up with several yearsets.

In the meat market, the meat stalls are two or three miles away. The seller looked at every passer-by from time to time. As long as they arrived at the meat market, they basically chose to buy meat. Once they stay in front of their own booth, the two sides will bargain for a few trading routines. What is fat and thin, what is expensive and cheap, the transaction is not completely proportional to the level of excessive tricks. Sometimes it's a deal that hasn't been seen for a long time, and sometimes it's a business with a few words.

However, no matter how fast or slow the transaction speed is, it must feel that it should be recognized by the heart, and it is fair and reasonable to complete the transaction. Sometimes you watch the deal close so fast that the buyer may have been watching it for a long time. Most buyers will compare the goods, and a penny cheaper is a penny cheaper. However, there are differences in the quality of meat, such as the meat in different parts, such as the pork eaten in the ribs, and the meat in the front legs is not as delicious as the meat in the back squats. If you want to eat good meat, you often need to pay a higher price. I like to watch the trading process of buying meat in the annual collection, from which I can learn some experience of buying meat.

For example, there are more or less lean meat coming out after squatting, depending on the thickness of white meat. when buying meat in your hometown, the thickness of white meat is measured by fingers, and it is said that several fingers are fat, usually three to five fingers. Many people think that the white meat fat of three fingers is more lean than that of five fingers. In fact, on the contrary, the lean meat loss rate of five fingers is higher than that of three fingers. Of course, people don't eat white meat these years, and they just buy lean meat at a higher price. However, more than a decade ago, lean meat and fat meat were not sold separately. Even now, in the annual collection, meat is still sold in whole or half slices.

The gun market on the annual collection is the biggest spot to catch up with the annual collection. Especially for boys, the temptation is very great. Generally speaking, the gun market should be on the edge of the market and not connected with other markets. Try to fire a lot of guns when selling guns, people carefully distinguish the quality and price of each gunner, and choose the varieties they want to buy.