Biography Of Huizhou Merchants:Confucian Scholar Wang Daokun In The Late Ming And Tai Hanji

After the Mid-Ming period, the great development of commodity economy brings the change of people’s understanding of businessmen, as works of literati began to traditional base business, business ideas to reflection, suppression of businessmen in "the last of the four people" status, the merchant has long been a marginal role in society began to shift. The biography of before Ming dynasty, the hero is more pleased emperors, heroes and celebrities coats, few members of the bottom. But after the mid-Ming period, the merchant began to appear in the literary work and play an important role, this is a phenomenon worthy of attention and emphasis on culture and literature.Huizhou merchants as a rapidly emerging business giants, for famous not only because of its good at doing business, but because of its good characteristics of confucianism and praise. Li Mengyang, Wang Shizhen, such as per capita for hui biography, but really a lot of monuments dedicated for hui merchants to try to change the image of huizhou merchants is Wang Daokun. Wang Daokun’s late period, has certain influence in the literary world, as a senior Confucian scholar, he is willing to have always been despised by the society of monuments dedicated merchant community, keen to show the Confucian scholar hui body have accomplishment and moral sentiment.Tai hanji is Wang Daokun representative a corpus, including 235 biographies, businessman biographies a total of 112, more than half of the total number of biographies, there are as many as 72 more are specially for huizhou merchants, accounts for half of the biography reveals. Wang Daokun in its "too letter set" there is a large number of comments for the center with merchants and account, based on account of these businessmen and comments, Wang Daokun expressed itself on wealth effect, the relationship between the concept of righteousness and new understanding. In the eyes of Wang Daokun, commercial and agricultural is "just right", and should not have the cent of the branch, and put forward " any loss to the agriculture":From Confucianism, and the relationship between each other mutually, industry base not Confucianism and dealers; Perception of wealth, but also put forward to "wealth", explains the importance of wealth, the pursuit of wealth is understandable; For the differentiation of righteousness, he inherited the traditional concept of Confucianism, and points out that business should uphold the spirit of loyalty.Huizhou merchant in Wang Daokun’s businessman biography, different from traditional society to the merchant status, and the evaluation of the image, he is a good confucianism, both of righteousness, good faith is not deceives the images of huizhou merchants, through the biography is account of the huizhou merchants and comments to change the negative image, has been to huizhou business activities by adhering to the confucian moral, shaped "confucianism" intellectual businessman image.