Research On The Value, Images Of Merchant In The Novels Of Tang And Five Dynasties

Tang and Five Dynasties novel in the history of Chinese fiction, it is the first timemore focused to reflect the lives of businessmen to shape the image of the variousmerchants. And the novels have portrayed various images of pedlars. Some of them richbut not expensive, the rich and abandon your some rich can be your enemy, and withwealth, Hu providers, suppliers women and also reflected social life of that time fromdifferent sides. But they were not attached much by people due to historical and politicalreasons. And from a literary point of view the results of their research is not a lot, Thoughthere were many academic researches, most of them appeared not quite thorough..Though there were individual researches, it also seems insufficient macro. Although therewere many researches combined the macro and micro study, the number of which is toosmall. Therefore, it’s valuable to research this field.Due to the long thinking of ‘respect the agriculture and suppressing the business’,people can’t actively found the lights of the businessman. So that literary creationrelatively ignored the businessmen life in a very long period.. In the Novel of TangDynasty and Five Dynasties, the image of businessmen was rebranded, their career gotcertain affirmation and their personality got much more respect. During the continue ofthe image of ‘greedy business’and ‘tricky merchant’, there also appeared a group of thebusinessmen image which sends out the human nature glory. As a businessman, theyconsciously abide by honest business principle and master the business theory. Thisbusinessman figure was almost blank in the former dynasties literary works, but therewere much more in the Novel of Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties.This article stated as the general situation of the Novel of Tang Dynasty and FiveDynasties, this article analyzed the image of the businessman in the Novel of TangDynasty and Five Dynasties based on the research of the quantitative classification. Theysummed up all kinds of the business images, such as the rich merchant, your business,middle merchants and vendors, Hu business, the female merchants and traders of womanimage, so that they explored the features and the culture of the new business image in theNovel of Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties. They had rich material wealth and legend experience, and the also had outstanding business ethics and advanced management idea,which were closely linked with the political, economic, cultural of the Tang Dynasty.These emerging businessmen image which contains unique cultural connotation is worthpaying attention to. The author in this paper contacted the scholars’ attitude and thebackground to attitude explored the creation reason of the emerging businessman imageand its social value orientation. As the further improving of the businessmen’s socialstatus, for society widely respected the business and the wealth under the impact of thetide in the business, so that the Novel of Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties appeared.Finally, the author got rid of the merchant’s prejudice of the business by studying theNovel of Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties, rewrote and revised the theory of thebusiness, analyzed the meaning of the novel, set up the image of the business in theNovel of Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties, and made an active part in realistic society.