“Buy Flowers, buy flowers, worship civilization, everyone advocates.” On weekdays, old Wen, who shouted seafood at Wenlin Road in Gulou district, kept shouting flowers yesterday. His booth was crowded with citizens who came to buy flowers for worship.
Can seafood stores sell sacrificial flowers? Yesterday morning, the reporter passed Wenlin Road, and the scene of a “Pingtan seafood shop” selling flowers made the reporter stop curiously to find out.
“Now there are more and more people who buy flowers and worship. Seeing others sell well, we also sell some goods.” While the shopkeeper wen lao Bo was busy with his business, he told the reporter that he had been selling flowers in Qingming festival for three or four years. It has been a long time since Wenlin Road sold sacrificial articles. In the early years, everyone sold paper money, firecrackers, candles and other supplies, later, more and more people bought flowers to worship and sweep. Many people changed to sell plastic flowers and flowers, and he also tried to sell some plastic flowers.
“I got up at 5 a.m. and set up a stall. I didn’t have time to eat breakfast. There were too many people buying flowers.” At 10 o’clock yesterday morning, Wen laobo caught a can of eight-treasure porridge and ate it when he saw that the customer was a little less. He told reporters that before and after Qingming Festival, selling flowers earned hundreds of yuan every day, making money more than selling seafood. One person was busy, and his sister took care of the seafood business in the store, he also called a relative to help sell flowers.
Grain and Oil shops, grocery stores, fruit shops…… The reporter walked along Wenlin Road and found that there were still many shops selling flowers as well as Wen laobo.