The peddler, also known as the "peddler". In the past, there were some vendors, with goods on their shoulders, knocking drums from door to door to sell. The vendor's drums are also famous. When he entered the village, the drums sounded "out, out, out." Call people out to buy things. When more people came out, the peddler shook happily. "Hey! Hey! "
These vendors were very popular in most parts of China, from the Song Dynasty to the end of the year. They walk around the village with their own vans or unicycles, playing drums, introducing the styles and usage of goods with melodious songs, and trying their best to sell them to attract customers, mainly women and children. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, transportation became more convenient, commodity circulation accelerated, and the burden on vendors gradually disappeared.
Vendors are a distant landscape in the countryside. This scene was very common in the late 1970s. A simple and honest middle-aged man, with a foreign accent, carries a bamboo pole on his generous and powerful shoulders. Two special bamboo baskets are filled with all kinds of small department stores. At both ends of the pole, bright women's hair clips and pens for primary school students are hung with red ropes.
A peddler peddling along the street
Vendors are stacked on top of each other, displaying various products, just like a micro-supermarket. In addition to daily necessities, toys, rouge gouache, farm tools, there are sweets, vegetables, green vegetables and other foods, which are full of the hopes of the villagers, old and young, and are a flowing and happy taste. The vendor's moving and loud singing is a small blessing in the plain life of rural towns.