Retired officials, and scholars drawn to the capital for the examinations, gathered at the market to sell articles such as Sichuan brocades, coral from the South China Sea, and antique books and paintings from their family collections.
除了一般日常用品，最吸引讀書人的是賣古董的市集，那些上京趕考的書生或是任官屆滿的人們，帶來了四川的錦緞、南海的珊瑚，還有家傳書畫古董。