Discussing Folk Hotel Of Tang Dynasty

Hotel is the place which provides food and accommodation service for the guests with its long-history operation in China. Most hotels were government-operated before Tang dynasty. Their strict policy towards the identities of the guests suppressed the social member mobility and commercial development. Comparable, the emergence and the development of the folk hotel was catering to the request of economic development. It was considered to be the product of the political and economic development. The paper takes the development of folk hotel of Tang dynasty as its research object with much emphasis on their distribution, management, consumer, reason for their success etc. The paper indicates these items as follow: the distribution of folk hotel in Tang dynasty was not only limited on Yi Dao and main road of the cities, but also spread into the country wilderness, even emerged in temples abundantly. The hotel managers and consumers covered from the noble and bureaucracy to the common person in the streets. The Tang folk hotels revealed its unique hotel culture and outstanding time feature, bringing different multicultural elements into one place. Under such a progressive political environment, Tang folk hotels witnessed a all-time social economic development. The convenient transportation and cultural exchanges were also indispensable for that. The prosperity of folk hotel was not free from the government's effective administration; on the contrary, it changed the form of market trade to some extent, allowing the business to be more effective and the bargain expenses to be more limited. In this way, the development of folk hotel business reflects the position and influence of the Tang dynasty upon the world during that time. We could take their development level as a measurement of the economic and cultural development during the Tang dynasty.