Article by AndrewJames
You think the time-honored MenBian is what is the row?You have seen priceless clock?You played royal garden rare cultural relic?...Sometimes, at your side neglected, it is highly probable that priceless, and even many little-known story hidden.Starting today, the newspaper will launch "in the golden seven consecutive days of city search treasure action may series of reports in play, let the reader more than the rest of the taste real treasure of" shop ".
Old Beijing merchants to trade names and PuHu TiBian is quite seriously.Often before officially launched in buying and selling, began to meditate on what its shop name.In fact, many traders and folk without much cultural foundation, but this does not delay they adopt a shop name.Because when the literati with some scholars trading house maintain close relations.Open trading themselves not up to cultural persons typefaces, to ask a name, and a few not plaque, also have or little-known or household story...
HongBinLou
-- town store gold plaque hid three mystery
Halal food has "city" reputation first floor HongBinLou actually not true capital, but have 153 years' history of tianjin old name.Fifty years ago, tianjin HongBinLou WangShouQian Cousins BaoFuPi hood with a head two pairs of ivory chopsticks, protect a gold-lettered signboard of HongBinLou, will HongBinLou from tianjin moved to turn XieJie outside city peace. 50, li3 tie3Now, inexorably, on the ground HongBinLou in Beijing has been thriving for half a century has become of the old city, old and young, yes recognized and won the "city of halal food first floor" reputation.
In Beijing HongBinLou right now is the settle down the city of the representative old name.As the treasure of the shop three artifacts are WangShouQian that old man brought from tianjin.One is by 625 grams of "gold casting HongBinLou" gold plaque;One is cixi ever use ivory chopsticks;Then the club recruited HongBinLou 1934 purchase, the yellow lip now extinct cut fish.
Over the past 50 years has a HongBinLou in Beijing after several times of heavy move.Now, diners can be in the ZhanLanLu xicheng district shopfront see one of only three artifacts of hidden three mystery: gold plaque.This is known as the golden treasure of HongBinLou venture since looks still brilliant plaque.
As for this gold hides some three mystery, plaque to this day no one can completely dissected.
First fans are: gold HongBinLou three words the writing by qing dynasty in jersey list for two inscribed jinshi.Traditional Chinese "hon" word for three of water, on the left, the right for a strander among the bird word below traditional is four bottom, but should write this bird is three bottom, why?There was speculation that said "bird" word was borrowed from the three water underneath of a bit, but the bird words into a point but above the long time in jersey, why use three water?
The second mystery is: this bian fluctuation without money, for firms in the famous written in the tablet is very rare.There was speculation that in jersey, do not be willing for long is literati let others know themselves as traffickers inscribe.The third mystery is: in fall of 1998, when HongBinLou moved to the new RongBaoZhai prepare to gold plaque, when open this 100 old, from behind the short bottom found in possession of a picture of a fine brush painting - peony beauty figure, painting in xuantong period.This painting someone wants to use showering buy-outs, because in three years, handed xuantong works very little.As HongBinLou "entrepreneurial treasure" component, this painting makes people don't understand, why a hundred years to "gold plaque hide jiao"?
Are a place
- the emperor qianlong "registered trademark"
The qing qianlong seventeen years as saying, namely in 1752.The emperor annual zhengzhou SiFang, out of the city tour outside door zone return from it was midnight.Then traders, is generally only to the 15th day of business, he saw qianmen street only a yellow wine library, then the lights went manager again hot some rice wine called, called rose dates, horse even meat, boiled floret born several kinds of side dishes.
DaDongTian, qianlong already hungry, add satiated with palace hog, first taste of folk dishes think flavour faint scent flavorful soon ate a satiated with shop, guys chatting on the tathagata: "your house kitchen craft true, don't know how much should I pay JiuFan money?"Store the well-dressed man saw this old man praise, busy answer: "sir, to serve your satisfaction is our blessed, which can charge you money, you give three DiaoQian become."Qianlong heard laughing, said to his secretary: "give placed it, more certain is silver tip!"Shop dude never seen such a generous to the patron, blunt qianlong gratuity ZuoYi say thank you.Qianlong asked shop waiter: "you this small tavern call what name?"Store man said: "business is too small! Didn't adopt a shop name."The emperor laughed and said: "the New Year holidays, open all the way you a visitor, call 'are a place" how?"
A few days passed, shop to give the guys gratuity old customer gradually forgotten.One day suddenly have a local officials to shop, to send in decree that plaque, store dude give Augustan stunned, such as into am quite at sea in regard, somehow, officials told one day night in the old man became a bodega drinking is when pilgrimage, holy Lord Lord qianlong ye give you pave "royal books are a place" party plaque, hurry up! Pick purport suspension.Store man knew that he was the previous drinking became the emperor, wonder, thanks to entertain still very satisfied, if there is a not attentive would be worse.Stores will be respectful polite respect plaque hanging.Since then the JiuFan paved a place called "all".Just this skill, attracting tens of thousands of customers, who don't want to see the place where emperor sit, who does not want to try the emperor had things ah, up to government official, down to civilians, are proud of it.From then on, "are a place" the fame of the world.
quanjude
-- mutton alley "flies" out of the roast duck
Beijing's XiSi street with a mutton bystreet, is now a national gemstone testing center is located.Go back to mutton alley, there must be a walk in the alley called mammon alley.But, in the 1980s the hutongs were scrapped.While quanjude founder yan quanren came after generations down since hutongs and live into the red brick board floor, but still didn't leave the alley.
Words in 1864, mutton hutongs of shanxi people business has a grocery business won't go down, when children of yan quanren came, of being introduced as a peddler save money to the grocery shop over, his dignity plate shop opened a hang furnace.The grocery store name call DE gather all means "good together, take money" full, virtue.The yan quanren came to quanjude upside down and size.The word, implying his name, gather virtuous, take "hang-grilled lush and wealth" meaning.This is the origin of this name 143-year-old.
Later, yan quanren came business bigger and bigger.In order to let more people know quanjude, he invited when a QianZiLong plaques inscribed calligraphy good scholar.Though not the emperor or the authentic, but the famous amid storms, a plaque hanging is 100 years.
The legend of old folk history. AlwaysFor example of the "virtue" word among little a horizontal, will have a lot of version of the speculation.For instance, the money show just drank the inscription, drinking a little less then a horizontal misspellings;Another example is to let the store manager again yan quanren came all the dude, "a heart on the heart" the knife removed, so let the heart that money scholar one horizontal to go.
These are all folk well-meaning guesses, actually, the reason is very simple.Like many modern we have same, there is also a word to originate in how to write.The kind of money scholar inscription in later wrote the evolution of Chinese language gradually disappeared.So, now we will see the wording of "virtue" word.And a hundred years in order to keep the original style 143-year-old, also has not put this to originate in correct capitalization.
Now, because the quanjude's fame, Beijing roast duck gradually had "days" -- first delicious.Foreign tourists had again "to Beijing, two things, the Great Wall, the roast duck" say, quanjude really become internationally renowned China time-honored brand.
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