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the old man wearing the cap, wearing a brown coat, foot step on the black cloth shoes. This dress is one of the standard costumes he has been selling for decades in old Beijing town. Intern Wang Fei
New Beijing News (reporter Yi Fangxing) 82 year old old man Cui Yanmin, the right hand wave drum wave, a mouth, the loud voice in the district spread: "sell scraping comb, comb hair oil, sell net son ah."
the old man wore a leather cap, a brown coat, and a black cloth shoe. This dress is one of the standard costumes he has been selling for decades in old Beijing town.
Cui Yanmin said that there were few people in old Beijing who had been hawking. In recent years, he had been searching for successors, but no one had come to learn from him.
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" I was a Manchu Huang flag man, born in 1931 in Andingmen Hutong, the home road declined, the Royal grain was not sent, in a few years, the Japanese entered the city, a lot of people fled.
poor family, he can not leave the city of Beijing, only a small business to support himself, but to let the people in the courtyard open the door out to buy things, the only one can rely on the only cry.
"at that time, children in the street were selling things, cigarettes, stinky tofu, newspapers, daily necessities... Almost everything was sold, and they shouted, "I followed behind, quietly recording the way and the way of Hawking." Cui Yanmin said.
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a copper coin to buy three copper children to sell
he sold the most interesting thing is "ice core". In winter, the water of the moat was frozen, dug up and stored in the ground, and when the summer arrived, the ice was pulled out for sale. The whole piece of ice Cui Yan can't afford to buy. He bought a basket of "ice nuclei" with a big copper coin. With a cover of cotton quilt, he sold it along the Hutong of the East City: "ice nuclear boy, give us more."
some people in the Hutong want to buy ice water to drink, and give Cui Yanmin two or three small copper coins and put a basin of ice core.
a day, a big copper seller will get three big copper coins for sale. A big copper can exchange ten small copper coins. Cui Yanmin will buy two cups of noodles to buy noodles.
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a year and a year's call. Cui Yanmin gradually mastered hundreds of selling methods, from eating to light, from cooking bowl to collecting old goods, from selling vegetables to selling fresh soil.
in 1955, after Cui Yanmin entered the construction company as a common worker, he did not call in the streets, but the words of the yell were left in the old man's mind.
with the changing times, the old Beijing Hawking is rapidly becoming extinct. In 2007, "old Beijing Hawking" was included in the second batch of Beijing municipal intangible cultural heritage protection list.
but to this day, Cui Yanmin and Zhang Zhenyuan, Zang Hong and other hawkers, have already passed away.
"these things in my mind, I want to find a successor, want to find someone willing to record them, it is a great pity to lose them." Cui Yanmin said.