What can ancient pawn shops pawn?

The things that can be pawned in ancient pawn shops are: gold and silver jewelry, grange real estate, antique calligraphy and painting, etc. Items that cannot be pawned are: clothes, umbrellas, fans, low-priced jewelry, etc.

Pawn can be traced back to the Southern Dynasties in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it began to flourish in the Tang Dynasty. The reason for prosperity lies in economic development, and people also need funds.

Pawning, as the name implies, is to take your more valuable items to the pawnshop for evaluation, and then the pawnshop will transfer some funds to help them tide over the difficulties. Of course, this fund is not the total value of the goods, generally not more than half.

This is the rule of pawn shops. Of course, money is not wasted, and interest needs to be paid. In fact, this is similar to the current mortgage loan, but there was no such term at that time.

Pawnshops shall return the principal and interest to the pawnshop within the prescribed time limit and redeem their own articles. Items that exceed the time limit belong to the pawnshop and have the right to dispose of them.

In ancient times, most things that could be pawned were valuable, generally including: first, gold and silver jewelry, such as hairpin and hairpin, was relatively expensive and easy to evaluate because of its single material; Second, Granci real estate. The value of this kind of goods is relatively high, and generally larger pawn shops can undertake this kind of goods; Third, antique calligraphy and painting benefit from the cultural and artistic value of such items, such as Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and painting and Tang Bohu's calligraphy and painting. Even if there is an original, it is priceless.

Of course, not all items can be pawned, and some cheap items, such as umbrellas, fans and inferior jewelry, can't be pawned.