典押行又称典当行，它是以实物为抵押，按照一定折扣贷放现金，到期收回本息的一种短期融资行业，其业务性质相当于银行中的抵押贷款。它与银号业、私营银行业不同声、在于，它所发放的贷款对象主要是一般的城乡平民，而不是工商客户。典当业在我国起源于南北朝，广西地区在清 It is also a kind of short-term financing industry that takes real money as collateral to pay cash at a certain discount and repay principal and interest due. The nature of its business is equivalent to the mortgage loan in the bank. It differs from the silver and private banking industries in that it lends loans mainly to ordinary urban and rural civilians rather than business customers. Pawn industry in our country originated in Northern and Southern Dynasties, Guangxi area in the Qing