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Dongguan Village Border Trade Market
Dongguan Village Jade Border Trade Market is located in Dongguan Village, one of the three major overseas Chinese townships in Tengchong. Dongguan Village is also known as Xidong because it is west of Tengchong County. The birthplace of the "Western Dong Merchant Gang", the first of the four famous merchants in Bei Deng! It has a long history and rich culture. It is an important station on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road. There are merchants, factories, workshops, and schools in the village. Every family is engaged in jade workshops. The "Tengyue Local Records" in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty recorded in detail the grand occasion of Tengchong jadeite and jade processing in the late Qing Dynasty: "...making Chaozhu, bracelets, hairpins, and various playing instruments, the sound of pondering can reach day and night, and it will pass through. There are thousands of families scattered in the villages. Among them, Dongguan Village is the most prosperous, every family is carving jade every night, every day jade, the prosperity is better than Xiaoyuecheng!"
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially during the Cultural Revolution, there was a brief interruption in the border trade of Dongguan Village, but the villagers never interrupted the inheritance of Xidong jade culture and overseas Chinese merchant culture. After the reform and opening up, Xidong people actively responded to the government's call to reshape Xidong Overseas Chinese brand! In order to standardize the jade industry, under the advocacy of the descendants of the six masters of Xidong, the villagers, led by the emerald business of the Xidong compound, reopened the jade border trade market in Dongguan Village at the former residence of the fifth master of Xidong, where the jade products processed by the villagers' jade workshops were re-opened. Centralized management, standardized operation, now form a jade jewelry industry chain integrating design, processing, wholesale and retail!
Carry forward the national spirit and inherit the jade culture! Xidong people have been working hard to build an emerald border trade market!