Analysis Of Trading Custom Phenomenon In The Epic "King Gesar"

This thesis paper has the trading phenomenon collected as the target to be studied and attempting to list a great number of examples from "King Gesar" and do a comprehensive study in terms of commercial life, production mode, and business trading activities. Excluding the preface and conclusion, this paper has four component chapters. In the first chapter, in order to begin by simply understanding what is the ancient Tibetan trading activity among civilians, it is started with giving the mere explanation of the concept for commercial routines and Tibetan people's trading activity during Tibetan Kings' ruling. In the second chapter, with economic movement in relevant history documents and commercial activities classification in "King Gear" as the starting point, it talks about the later development of animal husbandry,primitive gathering,handicraft and commercial trading in the epic "king Gesar" in recent Tibetan society. Besides, it specifically and respectively talks about pasture protection and applications of animal products in its animal husbandry section. In its primitive gathering section it gives a simple analysis of gathering and hunting. In the third chapter, in order for there to be enough commercial phenomenon collected, it respectively collects cases from stories like "Conquering Huo","Conquering Devil","Conquering Jiang"" Conquering Meng","In the Heaven","Born from a Egg","Danma","Horse Race" and "Obtaining the Treasure". All this is done on the purpose of discovering the economic elements in the long epic"King Gesar".In the fourth chapter, looking at economic production mode and regional trading activities during Tibetan kings' ruling through commercial movements in "King Gesar", Tibetan people in ancient time traded with people of other origin in neighboring area. With the assistance of this channel of trading interaction, Tibetan people in old times exchanged their cultural heritage with others. At the same time, it roughly sketches changes that occurred in Tibetan kingdoms' mode of production over time and trading partnerships among regions. In this article main theme is the trading customs that is reflected in "King gesar" and it also covers the mode of production at a certain period in Tibetan history and its classification. However, much of the content in "King Gesar" is about fights and wars that took place in "tribal era", in such a particular social background, it is hard to find economic elements in King Gesar, which is a great work in which all folk customs, military affairs, and history are combined together. In spite of this I still gathered some cases that reflect the trading phenomenon in "King Gesar" and in the mean time shared some of my opinions about it.