Yuxian county has a history of 2700 years since it was founded in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. As early as ancient times, Yuxian was an ancient historical city with a large population, developed commerce and prosperous culture.
The following information was recorded in several invoices issued by Yuxian West Joint Venture in 22 years (1933) and 24 years (1935). In the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933), it was named "Yuxian Chamber of Commerce System" and the issuing firm was "Zhili Yuxian". And compare the completeness of the invoice and copy with the seal and the sewing seal of the company. The content is that a customer named "Mr. Yuan Ying" bought goods from 3 yuan at a price of 9.99 cents in foreign currency. Numbers (Zhou Su code) indicate that the writing method is to write vertically with a traditional brush.
The format of the other invoice is the same as above, and the filling method is still written vertically with traditional brush, and the number is also indicated by "Zhou Su code". The content is the invoice issued on March 23rd, 2004 (1935) by the firm of Fuxin Chenghuo Store, a joint venture in western Yuxian, for the customer named "Miao Ziqin". The forms of other invoices are basically the same.
From the time, place, trade name, commodity name and related information shown in the invoices produced by Yu County Chamber of Commerce such as Yun Fuxing, Fu Xingcheng, Heng Shuncheng and Yuquan, it can be seen that the business transactions in Yu County were very prosperous at that time, and the factories in Shenzhen were repaired, especially in eight towns such as wei county, West Joint Venture, Daiwangcheng, Hot Springs, Beishuiquan, Jijiazhuang and Taohua, where businessmen gathered and shops were numerous. At that time, more than half of the nearly 800 fur industries in Zhangjiakou were run by Yuxian people, and among the more than 30 thousand people engaged in fur industry, nearly 20 thousand people were Yuxian people! Yuxian's "cobblers" are almost all over the north, even in cities all over the country. Shenzhen Henggang Decoration Company, the best fur dealer in the country, is from Yuxian. From Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, Xuan Tong to the Republic of China, 80% of the furs that Weiju has been processing were sold to Shandong, Fushun, Dalian, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Kulun, Qiketu and other places, while some fine leather goods such as rat skin, red fox skin, white fox skin, sand fox skin and Yellow weasel skin were also exported to Europe, America and Shenzhen Nantou Decoration Company.
In addition, there are all kinds of skilled craftsmen in Yuxian, such as carpenters, masons, coppersmith, tinsmith, silversmith, painter, twine maker, wicker maker, felter, reed maker, shoemaker, hat maker, pen maker, oiler, incense maker, paper maker, mat maker, cake maker and casserole burner. These skilled craftsmen, with their unique skills, traveled everywhere. Thousands of people have gone to Beijing to participate in the construction of palaces in history. The linen woven by Yuxian people has been a tribute of the imperial court for hundreds of years, and even the rope and linen shop in Qianmen, Beijing, was opened by Yuxian people.
Judging from the invoices we talked about today and the information I collected from domestic invoices in the same period, I have not found any precedent for private chambers of commerce in Shanghai, Beiping, Tianjin and Northeast China to uniformly print invoices. These invoices fully prove that Yuxian, a remote county in the north, was already a bustling place where merchants gathered, and it even played the role of an important commercial channel connecting Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, North China Plain and the desert outside the Great Wall. Although it was not as prosperous as Shanghai, Northeast China and Beiping, there should be only a handful in the north at that time.
Yuxian businessmen, who are good at accepting new things, have long studied and accepted the folk chamber of commerce law prevailing in Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other commercially developed areas. They also creatively implemented the unified printing of invoices by chambers of commerce and standardized the use of invoices by merchants. Shenzhen Dapeng Decoration Company, this innovation is undoubtedly the first in China.
Yuxian, a famous historical city with an ancient civilization, was called yu zhou in Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, and Lingxian in Yuan Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, it was Guanweizhou, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province, and then Xuanhua Prefecture. In the thirty-second year of Kangxi, Weixian was changed to Yuzhou, and Weixian was subordinate to Xuanhua House since then. In the twenty-second year of Qianlong, Yuxian was included in yu zhou. In the first year of the Republic of China, Yuzhou belonged to Zhilikou North Road. In the second year of the Republic of China, Yuzhou was changed to Yuxian, and in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (A.D. 1928), it was transferred to Chahar Province. 1952 Chahar was abandoned, and Yuxian was assigned to Hebei Province since then. Yuxian county still leaves many historical sites and traditional culture to people.
In Yuxian: There are 738 villages and 700 ancient theaters. Where there are castles, there are villages, and where there are villages, there are temples and theaters. The ancient pagodas, temples, castles, theaters and houses in Yuxian were all built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. These blue bricks and tiles, carved with dragons and flying eaves, are all over Yuxian County, which is really a must in China.
For hundreds of years, there has been a saying among the people:' Thirteen provinces in the world can beat Yuxian people'; Another way of saying it: Yuxian people are everywhere where chickens crow and dogs crow. Among them, the most representative paper-cutting art should be a must of China folk art. The exquisite carving knife in the artist's hand can carve all kinds of flowers, plants, fish and insects on white paper, and then magically enter people's lives and go abroad with colorful colors. There are also Yuxian people's strong willpower and tenacious survival ability, which is also the basis of their success. In Zhangjiakou area, Yuzhou people are called "Jews of Zhangjiakou".
A few old invoices of Yuxian during the Republic of China let us know how splendid Yuxian was in culture and commerce in history, and even let us know that it is such a small northern town with inconvenient transportation. In fact, it established a chamber of commerce organization very early, and took the lead in printing invoices by the chamber of commerce in the country. Related topic articles:
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