Queen Victoria Market, for you, is it a cheap vegetable or fruit, fresh seafood, or a busy night market? Whatever it is, it must be the most pyrotechnic place for every Melbourne resident.
Yesterday, Australian Federal government Health and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg announced that Queen Victoria Market, the largest open-air market in the southern hemisphere, is officially on the National Heritage list.
Alongside it are Melbourne cricket courts, Sydney Bondi Beach and Canberra's Australian War Memorial.
And these are Australia's famous tourist attractions.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Sydney Bundy Beach
Canberra War Memorial
Here, there are the freshest vegetables, the cheapest meat. The foreign students cordially called it "Wei Ma".
Every winter and summer, every Wednesday, the open night market adds color to the city's nightlife.
Not only the locals, but also the tourists who come to Australia.
Vivier must be one of the attractions everyone has to sign in. It's the most populated place in the city.
A market, condensed in a variety of ways.
According to Minister Josh Frydenberg, "this listing is also a tribute to the active culture and identity of the Queen Victoria Market."
Indeed, only places like Vivier, historical and human, deserve to be inscribed on the heritage list.
But, take a closer look at Vivienne's history, you will find that there is still a hint of horror behind the bustling.
History dates back to 1837, when Vivier had nothing to do with the bustling market.
At that time, the Virgin, including a large area of land around it, belonged to Melbourne's first official cemetery. There are about 10,000 buried here.
And we can see that half of the place at that time was buried by the Quaker/ Society of Friends), and the other half by the aborigines.
By 1854, the cemetery was closed because people were full.
On March 4, 1867, a piece of land around the cemetery was officially donated for the market, the embryonic form of today's Virgin. This place is today's Victoria's meat hall.
In March, government in Murben planned to exhume all the 9000 bodies buried in the ground because it was building a parking lot underground in Vivier.
DNA testing allows them to "identify their ancestors."
Of course, Victoria's history won't end like this.
From the 1960s, the place was inextricably linked to the Italian mafia Ndrangheta/ Honoured Society).
This organization is very powerful, in those decades, basically the whole of Australia's marijuana was involved in the organization.
Mafia funerals in the 1960s
Between blackmail and immigration, the mafia's eyes also fell on Vivier's treasure land.
By the 1960s, their business had begun to expand, extorting farmers and vendors in the market, collecting protection fees, and doing things like kidnapping, drug trafficking, buying murderers and so on from time to maintain organizational operations.
In 1963, the mafia basically monopolized Melbourne's fruit and vegetable wholesale business. Yes, you're right, wholesale fruit and vegetables.
As a result, their competitors shot a Vimar vendor for demonstration, just the beginning of the next five Vivien shoot cases. And these cases are related to the mafia's fight of interest.
In 1983, then-gang leader Benvenuto's car was blown up by another Italian mafia in Verma.
In order to deal with these cases, the Virgin eventually started a vendor registration system and moved the entire wholesale department to Footscray Road..
I've been the largest graveyard, and I've been a mafia stronghold. How's it going? Is this kind of mom still the one you know?
Perhaps, many people still don't know the history behind Vivier.
But as they are listed on the national heritage list, these little-known histories will become familiar to the world.
Don't you think it's even more exciting to be such a godmother?
Source: The Age,Queen Victoria Market website, Herald Sun,Vice