The Study On Tea Trade Of Gansu Province In Qing Dynasty

Gansu tea trade in Qing Dynasty derived from the Tea-Horse trade in Ming Dynasty.Gansu tea trade played an important role in the north-west Tea-Horse trade,In the early years of the Qing Dynasty,the more region of the Tea-Horse trade located the border region of minorities and the Han nationality,including Tao-state,Min-state,and xining.During the period,the Tea-Horse trade guaranteed the tea supply for minorities,and satisfy war-horse needs for border areas.In the later periods of Qianlong,owing to Tea-Horse Trade Agency was built and management of the tea law,Gansu tea trade was influenced by the country's politics and economy,dissolved the agency gradually,and started civil tea trade.Tea dealers took the papers to purchase tea,then transported to quondam area for sale,so there were small-scale tea markets in partial areas of Gansu.The tea merchant were prominent in the development of commerce during the region of Emperor Tongzhi,strife-torn tea trade accessed to the new phase,when it anew reformed by Zuo Zongtang.With the tea system was implemented and new joined tea dealers,Gansu tea trade regained the past prosperity,in the meantime,driven by economical situation of domestic consumption turned to export of the whole country,tea trade also made a great progress in the reexport and exoteric port trade.The entire process is another course,the course with the transregional commodity circulation scaled and regional development nationalization.During the process,the tea merchant driven the tea trade,they also got used to the change of own social role gradually.From the tea sellers of the traditional society translated to the tea merchant in the modern society,this change embody a developing course,which is from small and medium-sized ted sellers to large tea merchant groups,from small capital operation to big-capital tea brands.Theintensive ability of tea merchant made the Gansu tea trade enter into a new tea trade system with professional forwarding procedure and marketing methods,when it went through a length of confined district trade stage.Those transformation transfused the new power for modern development of the Gansu Commerce.During the development of Gansu tea trade,external and internal force derived from the transformation of the national politics and economy.This passive influence is differ from domestic tea trade vital area situation change affect the whole nation,it on the basic of peculiar geographical and cultural environment of Gansu.The basis also become the most conspicuous characterized region development in Gansu tea trade.