City sound is to attract customers through certain sound effects, which is what we call hawking and hawking today. Just like the present situation, small traders in ancient times all shouted and peddled. Due to the lack of ancient records, it is difficult to determine when the ancient hawking began. But it can be inferred that Hawking's cry was born since we got rid of the initial transaction.
Business flourished in the Song Dynasty, and then there was a record of hawking. For example, Meng Yuanshen of the Southern Song Dynasty recorded in "Dream of Tokyo" that at that time, people doing various businesses entered the market every day in Beijing. Among them, "from Yujie Qiao Zhou to Nannei, those who used the convenience of dynasties to sell medicines and food were called Bai Duan". In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu once included the night market and various groceries in Hangzhou, and listed all the things sold in Hangzhou at that time with extremely meticulous pen and ink. These sellers, "all claimed that they all followed the cry of capital."
Most of these traders are not from wealthy families. They rely on small businesses to support their families, and they can't stop working in the cold winter. The bread here contains their own bitterness. All kinds of shouts often give people a sad feeling. Fan Chengda, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "A crow is worth a thousand dollars, and a hungry crow is frozen." . I'm sorry you came here with a life order. "In the poem, Hawking is called crying, saying that it is the same as freezing birds starving crows, and that the crying of betrayal is very bitter, because the poor can only work hard to survive.