A Biographical Study Of The Merchants Of Henan From Local Records In Ming And Qing Dynasty

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a large number of biographies of businessmen, which is a new social and cultural phenomenon. The biography of merchants is an indispensable material for the study of the merchants of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This article focuses on the selection of Henan local records in the business biography, which is on the basis of the collection and collation of the Henan merchants biographical information.The first is to discuss the historical value of the biography of the businessman and the characteristic of compilation,secondly, to reveal the reasons for the business of Henan merchants,thirdly, to outlined Henan merchants operating characteristics and business philosophy in the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the original data, finally, to sum up the overall mentality structure of Henan merchants in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and to evaluate its limitations.This paper mainly introduces the reasons of choosing the topic, the review of academic history, the research methods and the definition of related concepts. In ancient Chinese society, a merchant living at the end of four people, they are not in the official history of the history records, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties chorography writing trend stability and standardization, which kept many businessmen in the local history, this is important for us to study the businessmen and provides valuable information.The first chapter mainly analysis of Henan local records biography of merchants, make a preliminary statistics of Henan local records biography of merchant retained status, the sequence of the development of combing the Henan business biography, showing chronicles Henan business records in the form of a list.The second chapter describes merchant biography in the Henan local records of historical value and compiling characteristics. by which, make an analysis on the different versions of biography of merchants for in-depth discussion.The three chapter mainly from the perspective of historical writing, focuses on the writing of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Henan Province biography of merchants, the reason of Henan merchants business, Henan business figure and local chronicles written by ideological tendencies do meticulous combing.The fourth chapter summarizes the Ming and Qing Dynasties Henan businessmen from the operating characteristics of the local chronicles and features, while make an analysis of the Henan businessman and business philosophy of humanistic qualities.The fifth chapter evaluates the mentality structure of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Henan businessmen, to summarize its historical limitations.The conclusion part of the full text is to summary and sublimation, to strive and comprehensive the value of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Henan Province biography of merchants in objective, and to evaluate the Henan business characteristics for a correct understanding of the historical status of Henan merchants in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.