What are the famous antique shops in Beijing?

Now in Beijing, I'm afraid not many businessmen have entered the antique industry, and not many are familiar with the old rules. After all, the vast majority of antique dealers in the Republic of China died long ago or lived at home for a long time. Private antique shops in Beijing only appeared after more than 20 years of reform and opening up. It is inevitable for most operators to "cross the river by feeling the stones". But there are also such antique dealers in Beijing, who catch up with the good times by "getting there first".

Antique dealers know that Liulichang is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. More than twenty years ago, Xianyantang, the first private antique shop in Beijing, opened here. Speaking of which, the ancestors of the owner Liu Xuexian did not deal in antiques. But when she opened a shop in a "geomantic treasure house", the owner Liu was lucky-in the mid-1980s, a group of experts from the old Beijing antique shop gathered here: Xu Zhenbo, a ceramic expert, Fu, an expert in inscription cutting, a jade jeweler who was the head of the gallery, and a painter who was good at painting and calligraphy. At that time, these "old men and women of the Republic of China" either retired at home or were hired as consultants by state-owned antique shops to help "palm their eyes." "Xianyantang" is located in the east of Liulichang, next to state-owned stores such as Yifangzhai and Bo Gu Zhai. After a while, several old people learned that Liu, the small shopkeeper, was engaged in private business and was a "novice on the road", so they enthusiastically helped each other. In spring, summer, autumn and winter, they became frequent visitors to Xianyantang, drinking tea and chatting, and taught the younger generation many old rules of doing business and the secrets of making money summarized by their predecessors.