Business Businessman Tang Poetry

The tradesmen in Tangshi, divided from the forms of management, there were moving tradesmen and sitting merchants. Divided from the scales of management, they included the big and the small. Divided from their identities, they included foreign tradesmen from the outside and businessmen who were changed from farmers and handicraftsmen in the internal. They each have their own features. Their faiths were multifold, among those their worship of the crow is both religious and unique. The dynasties study told us that the farmers went into trade after they fled from their farms, because taxes on farmers were heavier than that on tradesmen. In fact, in the mid-Tang period, taxes on tradesmen were not always lighter than that on farmers. Most of the fanners remained to be farmers after they fled, and few of them managed in commerce. New taxation system's coming out was the important reform that exactly aimed at large numbers farmers' fleeing. So from the essential reason, the new taxation system was not the reason that spurred on the fanners to flee but the result that the rulers took measures after large numbers farmers' fleeing. The discovery that geishas and scholars were the main medium in the spread of Tangshi neglected the functions of the tradesmen. First, tradesmen made the poets' works into books and sold them out. It advanced the spread of poems. Second, tradesmen's diversified undertakings spurred on the production of poets' poems. Third, tradesmen made use of poems to pack and promote the sale of goods, which also advanced the spread of poems.A large number of Tangshi which based on tradesmen and their wives reflected people's state of mind under the background of social commercial development. Tangshi and commercial activities were closely related which reflected by advertising poem production. On the one hand, there were a great deal of banner ads in Tangshi. One the other hand, Tangshi was in some way advertisements in that help raise the volume of commerce.