What Is a Street Vendor?

A street vendor is a hawker who sells and sells goods. Refers to the small mobile vendors who set up the stalls. There are no fixed stores and free-flowing hawkers. In real social life, it refers to unlicensed vendors engaged in guerrilla warfare with city managers (urban management).

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Refers to the stall vendor.

Street vendors selling oil

Carrying oil baskets to sell oil. In the residential area, put down the burden and knock the mule with your hand. When people heard the sound of cripples, they knew that it was oil sales. There is a kind of rice dumpling, which is a measuring device in itself, which can be used to lift oil.

Hawker

They are peddlers who buy vegetables and fruits from the countryside and bring them into towns for sale. The Han Dynasty was called "Vegetable Maid" ("Han Han Shu" Volume 77), and later generations were called "Vegetable Vendors". In the "Cultural Revolution", they were relegated to "Erdaodaomongers" and restricted. After 1978, it became increasingly active. Their cries, such as: "Sell one dish and one, who wants cucumber, shallot, leek, celery, eggplant?" (Qian County), "fresh cucumber, fresh leek!" (Chang'an).

Street vendor

Carrying a medicine box, the medicine seller carried a stab in his hand and called for customers as he walked. In more prosperous places, surgical martial arts are often performed to attract customers. When people watched, he first said what medicines he brought, and then talked about what diseases they could cure and enticed people to buy them. Those who sell internal medicine use four-leaf tiles (an Allegro). Speaking of the self-edited Shaanxi Kuaishu, they claim that they have a panacea. They take advantage of people's love to take advantage of the bargain, saying "buy one pack and get one pack" and "buy one pack and get two packs", in fact, the value of the medicine is far below the selling price. They can speak eloquently, and are good at fooling the villagers. They often describe counterfeit medicine as a panacea for all diseases. For example, Qianxian who sells "red wound medicine" often sells weathered stone (weathering of limestone) as a hemostatic elixir to others.

Street vendor

Rural doctor is a kind of folk doctor. They rang the bell by hand, so in ancient times it was also called "bell doctor". Some hand-held tamarinds have "river maps" written on them, and they have written "Ancestral Secrets", "Chinese Medicine Family" and the like. Most of them are from the practical experience of working people, and they have the characteristics of experience, convenience and cheapness. However, there are not many real scholars in the local doctors, so they have been downgraded as "Doctor Ye."

Stalled hawkers

Ragged, generally rattle customers with handbells. There are also sips, such as: "Who has a rotten copper, rotten iron, rotten aluminum to sell?" (Qianxian), "Who has a broken cardboard box, rags, or empty wine bottle to sell?" County), "Receive a piece of waste paper and old newspapers!" (Tongchuan). In the past, people who bought scrap products with matches were now using cheap plastic products to change their clothes.

Street vendor

The goods man in the village and village is also called the goods man. Popular refers to people who sell goods at the streets in rural, mountainous or urban alleys. In the scroll paintings of the Tang Dynasty, there is "Character Map". In the drama novels of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the image of goods man often appeared. In the old days, traffic was blocked, and it was extremely inconvenient for people to go shopping in the city, so there were many goods sellers. Among the sellers, some have double-layered cargo boxes on the back, and the upper layer is covered with glass, which displays the items sold, such as pins, thimbles, combs, hairpins, hairpins, buttons, tooth powder, fragrant powder, matches, jelly beans. On some containers, weird characters composed of several characters are written, such as "Vine" (golden two thousand), "Bian" (zhaocaijinbao), "Zhi" (learning Confucius and Mencius), and so on. Goodsmen in Guanzhongyao County, Shaanxi Province are carrying cargo containers, and people call them "flat bearers." They also called them "playing eight strings", because the two ends of the flat load were tied to the container with four ropes. Some merchants who sell homespun cloth are tied with wide cloths and hit on their shoulders. Every time the merchandiser arrived at the place, he shook the snare drum and made a sound of "pushing waves and waves" to attract the villagers to buy goods. The shape of this kind of drum is the same as that of children's puppet drums. Highways extend in all directions, and commercial outlets in towns and villages are densely packed, and goods dealers are rare. It is only in some remote mountain villages that there are still signs of bargaining.

Street Vendor Tinker

Tinkers are people who work as nail pots, welding jobs, repairing locks, etc. Because their stoves are small, they can only do small jobs, so the saying goes: "Little furnacemakers can't turn on wrought iron (pig iron blocks)." . Because they have both of these technologies, and because of the heavy tools, they can't carry them on their shoulders, so they can only engage in one of them. Their shouts were: "nail pot nail pot one", "welding porcelain pots and porcelain pots one", "repairing locks with keys one" (Bin County).

Street vendor

In the old days, leatherworkers also went to villages and villages. They called raw hides and mature skins "cooked" and made leather into ropes called "combined ropes." Their shouting was: "Who knows how to cook the skin and close the rope?" (Qian County).