Songxianqiao Antique Art City

The biggest antiques-and-curios market in south-west China, on the creek between Qingyang Palace and Du Fu Cottage, across the road from the Sichuan Museum. It is an arcade of dealers' shops open daily — porcelain, jade, coins, Tibetan pieces, Cultural Revolution paper, brushes and ink — with the street market on Sundays (and a Wednesday-and-Sunday old-books-and-paintings fair) when the stalls spill onto the pavements. Free to wander, priced to haggle, and mostly reproductions unless you know what you are looking at.