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第十五站: 油麻地玉器市場

DESTINATION 15: "Yau Ma Tei Jade Hawker Bazaar"

“書中自有黃金屋，書中自有顔如玉”一句中“顔如玉”是什麽意思？

指的是美貌女子,也可泛指妻子紅顔“美女”！書中自有黃金屋，書中自有顔如玉就是有了功名可以抱得美貌如玉一樣美麗美人歸。用現代理念去解釋，讀書就是接受教育，教育是社會的一個功能，這是用來勉勵讀書人學習的，也就是說要好好讀書，有了學識就等於有了財富和美女。同時，讓學生掌握知識學能，以投身社會，服務人群。

Chinese had a Proverbs said “Knowledge brings wealth, Knowledge brings beautify wife like Jade”. It means if you study harder, you will get a great future career and wealth. After being a successful person with high salary or wealthy, you would have qualification to get marry with a beautify wife. At the same time, a successful person would have a characteristic of being a good man and contribute back to the society.

玉是和女人最相通的一種物質。玉的細膩，似女子的心細如發;玉的剔透，如女子的冰雪聰明;玉的堅硬，像女子堅強執著的品格;玉的溫潤，是女子的似水柔情;玉的易碎，宛若女子的敏感神經;玉的含蓄內斂，是女人純和平靜的微笑。

The characteristics of Chinese lady like Jade. It has two sides to judge whether it was a good lady like jade. First, the color of jade must be clear and soft to the eye touching. Second, jade is easily to be broken as same as the lady’s heat. So, the personality of Chinese lady is always smile and embarrassing that it represents the restrained and traditional lady’s style.

油麻地玉器市場“Yau Ma Tei Jade Hawker Bazaar” 是香港玉器和寶石交易的集中地。1950年代初期，一批受國共內戰影響的玉器商人，從廣州移居到香港。他們原本是在廣州長壽路的玉器墟進行玉器交易，到了香港後，均集中在油麻地一段的廣東道開設玉器店舖。本來在1960年代初，玉器店少於10間，但到1970年，已發展至超過100間，散佈於佐敦道至西貢街的一段廣東道。1972年美國總統尼克遜訪華，掀起全球的「中國熱」，玉器銷量大增，玉器店舖一度超過300多個，大部份中低檔的玉器店均遷往新市場，而廣東道一帶則仍保留小量出售高檔及名貴的玉石首飾為主的商店，成為香港的一個旅遊熱點。

“Yau Ma Tei Jade Hawker Bazaar”or “Yau Ma Tei Jade market”is mainly for trading the jade product market in Hong Kong. During the 1950's a group of jade traders from Guangzhou in Mainland China emigrated to Hong Kong and started business in shops on Canton Road in Yau Ma Tei. By the early 1960's there were only about 10 shops, but by the beginning of the 1970's the number of shops lining Canton Road from Jordan Road to Saigon Street had grown to over 100. Following US President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972, jade became a sought-after Chinese souvenir, particularly among Americans, and soon there were over 300 shops and street stalls in the area. In 1984, in order to maintain better control, a site under a road traffic flyover was allocated to house all the street vendors and became the Jade Market, officially known "Yau Ma Tei Jade Hawker Bazaar". This is a rather gloomy indoor market on two adjacent sites, Zones A and B, on either side of Battery Street. There are 340 stalls in Zone A, the larger site, and 100 stalls in Zone B.

甘肅街玉器市場由兩個相連的部份組成，東面場地有340個攤位，西面場地則有約100個攤位。其中在西面的場地，有10多個代寫書信的攤位，提供中國書法、代寫中文及英文信件、填寫申請表格和報稅單等服務，在香港其他地方已難以找到。而其他攤位以販賣較廉價的玉器和寶石為主，包括翡翠、舊玉、青玉、瑪瑙、孔雀石、青金和珍珠等，也有首飾、收藏品、紀念品和玉石半製成品發售。該處貨品的價錢大眾化，價錢由數十元至數十萬港元不等。

The market sells a vast array of jade products, particularly costume jewellery, figurines, beads, chopsticks and various souvenirs of various grades and colours with starting prices ranging from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars. For custom-made jewellery its advisable to take a photo of what is required. Buyers need to be something of an expert in jade to be able to judge quality and caution should be exercised in buying high value items. When purchasing make sure what goes in the box is what has been chosen and inspect carefully for damage.