The Study Of Huizhou Merchants Take Part In The Charity Association And The Charity Hall In The Jiangnan Region

During Ming-Qing Dynasties, the South of the Yangtze River is the most developed area of the national commodity economy, is the main area of Huizhou merchants’ activities. In numerous commercial industry of the South of the Yangtze River, Huizhou merchants almost hold the industry advantage, especially salt industry, rice industry, wood industry, pawnbroking, silk industry and cloth industry, etc.Through industry advantage, Huizhou merchants contribute a lot about the industry business to donate of charity association and charity hall in the South of the Yangtze River. They are involved in the charity association and charity hall of the Jiangnan region because of social factors, religious ethic factors, realistic environment factors and political environment factors. Huizhou merchants donate to the charity association and charity hall in two ways, one is commercial industry donation that is the most importmant,the other one is private donation that is incidental. The commercial industry donation the protection of the main funding about the daily operation of the charity association and charity hall. Therefore, at the beginning of construction, the charity association and charity hall of the Jiangnan region are in the distribution range of the forces of the huizhou merchants as a location for reference. The result is that the charity association and charity hall are because of the prosperity and development of huizhou merchants forces, but also because of the decline of the influence of huizhou merchants, twists and turns. Huizhou merchants take part in the charity association and charity hall not only practice their Confucian moral values, but also promote the development of the whole of the folk charity in the south of the Yangtze river, and promote the social stability and development of the jiangnan region.The full text is divided into three parts:The first part is the introduction part of the full text. It introduces the selected topic reason and meaning of this paper, and reviewes the relevant academic history, and then expounds the innovation of the subject.The second part is the body parts of the full text.Divided into four chapters:The first chapter is the industry operating conditions of Huizhou merchants in jiangnan region. This chapter briefly describes the development of huizhou merchants. There are roughly four characteristics, the rise, the setbacks, the prosperity, and the decline phase. This chapter also outlines the operating conditions of several main industry of the huizhou merchants in jiangnan region.The main industries are salt industry, wood industry, rice industry, pawnbroking, silk industry and cloth industry. Huizhou merchants have the advantage in these industries.The second chapter is the reason of Huizhou merchants are involved in the charity association and charity hall.This chapter emphatically discusses why huizhou merchants participate in the charity association and charity hall in the jiangnan region. There are four reasons, social factors, religious ethics factors, realistic factors, political factors.In the midst of social factors, the factors include two reasons.One is that huizhou merchants want to compete with scholars in the social public welfare undertakings when the social rank idea is changing. The other one is that huizhou merchants want to ease their self-abased psychology and anxious state of mind for wealth by doing something good.In the midst of religious ethics factors, the factors discuss two reasons. One is that doing something good by spreading wealth can bring some merits for merchants. Influenced by the folk belief, huizhou merchants do good actively. The other one is that huizhou merchants want to practice their Confucian moral values through doing something good. In the real factors, it discusses the reason that there are two. One is that huizhou merchants need to being into local society through good deeds as soon as possible for their commerce. The other one is that "the corvee" persecution about the donation of the charity association and charity hall make huizhou merchants must do like this. In the political factors, there are also two reasons. One is that bad political environment of Ming-Qing Dynasties make the scholars lose their confidence that they want the king to administrate the country as they would like. The other one is that the growing force of civil merchants make the scholars have a new hope that they can manage society with the help of the merchants.The third chapter is that huizhou merchants take part in the charity association and charity hall in the jiangnan region. With the several examples that huizhou merchants participate in the charity association and charity hall, wich are foundling homes, qing festival hall, hangzhou association of benevolence in the jiangnan region, to prove that huizhou merchants play an importmant role in the activity of the charity association and charity hall in the south of the Yangtze River.The fourth chapter is the characteristics and the influence that huizhou merchants participate in the charity association and charity hall in the jiangnan region. On the basis of the above, this chapter analyzes the the characteristics and the influences that huizhou merchants participate in the charity association and charity hall in the jiangnan region. There are three characteristics: the first one is that the industry forces distribution of huizhou merchants affects the range of the charity association and charity hall in the jiangnan region, the second one is that the development of the charity association and charity hall resulted in the industry of huizhou merchants and personal power, the third one is that the rise and fall of force of huizhou merchants is as similar with the the development and setbacks of the charity association and charity hall in the jiangnan region. There are also three influences: the first one is to promote the development of the folk charity in the south of the Yangtze River, the second one is to promote the social stability and development of the jiangnan region, the third one is to practice and to carry forward the Confucian moral values of huizhou merchants.The third part is a conclusion part of the full text, and the chapter make a simple summary.