How many industries are there in China?

Ching Bo Miscellany, China's Tang Dynasty society's main industries for the "36 lines", namely: meat shop, palace powder, clothing, jade, jewelry, silk, paper, seafood, fresh fish, stationery, tea, bamboo and wood, wine and rice, iron, Gu embroidery, needle and thread, soup store, medicine shop, tie for the potter's clay, pallbearers, witch, stagecoach, coffins, leather, Old times, sauces, firewood, netting, flower yarn, juggling, coloring, drumming, flowers and fruits, and so on. Xu Ke in the "qing taolu class notes - agriculture and commerce class" said: "thirty-six lines, a variety of occupations. On its division of labor and about counting, said thirty-six lines, times for seventy-two lines, ten for three hundred and sixty lines." It can be seen, "seventy-two lines" is an imaginary index, today people often say seventy-two lines or three hundred and sixty lines, not a specific number. As a matter of fact, the division of labor in the social sector is much more than seventy-two lines.

The so-called "three hundred and sixty lines" refers to the various trades and industries, that is, the types of work in society. As the old saying goes, "knocking gongs and selling sugar, each doing a line". Regarding trades, there have been records of 36 trades since the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, Zhou Hui's "Qingbo Magazine" recorded a meat shop, seafood shop, sauce shop, flower and fruit shop, fresh fish shop, palace powder shop, clothing shop, medicine shop shop, tie as a shop, coffin shop, the old shop, clay shop, pallbearer shop, drumming shop, juggling shop, leather shop and so on.

How did the 36 lines develop into "360 lines"? According to xu ke "qing taolu class notes - agriculture and commerce class": "thirty-six lines, a variety of occupations. On its division of labor about, said thirty-six lines; times, then seventy-two lines; ten of the three hundred and sixty lines." Visible "three hundred and sixty lines" is only an approximate number, in fact, since ancient times, the industry's types of work is definitely more than "three hundred and sixty lines", three thousand six hundred lines are more than. However, "three hundred and sixty lines" is just a general number, the folk of the "three hundred and sixty lines" is a general term, over the years into a natural habit, easy to say, listen to the ear, so the address to now, talking about the industry or generally known as the The first is the "three hundred and sixty rows".

Hangzhou industrial and commercial sector has three hundred and sixty lines. The name of the line, began in the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty Zhou Hui "Qingbo Magazine" recorded a meat restaurant line, seafood line, fresh fish line, wine line, rice line, sauce line, Palace powder line, flowers and fruits line, tea line, soup store line, medicine shop line, clothing line, silk line, Gu embroidery line, needle and thread line, leather line, tie line, firewood line, coffin line, the old line, pallbearer line, net net rows, drums and music line, jugglers line, picking the emperor's carriage, jewelry line, jade line, paper line, stationery line, paraphernalia line, bamboo line, Taoist line, stagecoach line, and so on. The Qing dynasty's Xu Ke wrote in the Qing dynasty's "Qing Dynasty" a book entitled "Qing Dynasty". Qing people Xu Ke in the "qing taolu class notes" said: thirty-six lines, a variety of occupations. On its division of labor and about counting, said thirty-six lines; times, then for seventy-two lines; ten, then for three hundred and sixty lines; all on the number.

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There's an old Chinese saying. "Three hundred and sixty rows, rows and rows". However, with the rapid development of society, the social division of labor is becoming more and more detailed, the cycle of the rise and fall of Chinese occupations is accelerating. According to statistics, there are now 1,838 occupations in China, many of which are new, and there is a tendency for them to increase year by year. So far, China has issued 113 occupational standards.

The so-called 360 professions is an imaginary number. It refers to many in general. In ancient Chinese culture, 6 is an auspicious number. 60 times 6 is also an auspicious number. That's all