Ancient books about ghost market

Speaking of ghost market, many people will feel horrible when they hear this name for the first time. The word "ghost" has different meanings in China, but in fact, ghost market is just a kind of morning market and a kind of address for people. Different from the morning market in the general sense, this morning market usually occurs at 2: 00-3: 00 in Ling. By dawn, merchants have generally closed their stalls and gone home, so the ghost market at dawn has disappeared, which is why people call it ghost market.

At present, the earliest ghost market only appeared in the Song Dynasty. The reason why there was no ghost market in the more open and developed Tang Dynasty before the Song Dynasty was because there was a system in the Tang Dynasty, that is, the curfew system. In the Tang Dynasty, the Tang government introduced a curfew system. It is stipulated that no one is allowed to go out at night, let alone set up a stall. Therefore, for people in the Tang Dynasty, the night view at night is not appreciated. How can there be a ghost market? In the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty began to break this system and set up ghost markets to encourage people to go out at night.

Many people's understanding of selling things in ghost markets is limited to those rare treasures, but it is not. Shi Gui sells a wide variety of goods, and Shi Gui can be regarded as a department store. It not only has those rare treasures that people understand, but also has ordinary items that people need in their lives, for example, pots and pans and some medicinal materials that people need in their lives, and some daily necessities and even food can be bought in Shi Gui.

But today, although Shi Gui's habits still exist in the society, great changes have taken place in Shi Gui compared with Shi Gui before. Now ghosts are more places where people look for things from Taobao.