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Panjiayuan Market
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 Panjiayuan Market is a huge flea market. It is made up of over three thousand individual stalls covering 48,500 square metres. There really is something for everyone here. Even Hilary Clinton has shopped at Panjiayuan. Antique lovers who know their stuff will be very happy shopping here. Most of the real antiques vendors are in the rear area of the market and are usually peasants from the countryside who sell items collected in their villages. Come very early on weekends, Sunday is the best day for the antiques. Situated in a place of city traffic hub, south of Eastern Third Ring Road and west of Panjiayuan bridge nearby Second Ring Road, it is very easy for visitors to reach. The market covers over three hectares of land and accommodates over 3,000 stalls open to business. All kinds of secondhand goods, art and craft articles and antiquities are the main transactions in the market. It also deals in antique furniture imitations, four treasures for Chinese study room (writing brush, inkstick, inkslab and paper), ancient books and paintings, agate, jadeite, ceramics, ancient Chinese and foreign coins, bamboo and animal bone sculptures, leather figurines for shadow play and all types of face masks for Chinese opera. Also on sale in the market are Buddhist relics, costumes of ethnic minorities, apparels, articles left from so-called Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), daily necessities, etc.The secondhand goods and antiquities on sale in the Panjiayuan market is really a market of Chinese traditional culture. Owing to its unique charm, it has become an important place of interest for Chinese and foreign tourists to visit in Beijing. |
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