Five Traditional Cultural Concepts, the Valuable Wealth of Jin Merchants' Success

The great success of the merchants of Jin has a lot to do with their way of doing business, which, of course, cannot be separated from the influence of traditional culture. Jin merchants in business activities, the full display of cultural literacy is actually related to what traditional cultural concepts? Here, let's go to Jinshang culture together **** with the study it.

1, Confucianism and Jiamen

For Confucianism and Jiamen, the general view of the Ming and Qing societies is that "Confucianism is high in fame and Jiamen is high in profit", and that Confucianism and Jiamen are not pursuing the same goal.

But some Shanxi merchants put forward the view that Confucianism and Jaism are compatible, they believe that the line of Jaism can also learn Confucianism, Confucianism can be Jaism, Jaism can be Shi, Shi can not lose the Jaism industry. For example, Wang Yao, a merchant in Puzhou in the Ming Dynasty, is "traveling goods and teaching righteousness, transferring the accumulation of money and hands without leaving the simple book". Shanxi merchants also set up a transport school for their children in Hedong Salt Pond, and their children in the salt areas of the two Huaihuai have their own business registration, while the Hui merchants do not.

2, righteousness and profitability

Yi, is a traditional Chinese culture of a moral code, but also prohibit the norms of people's behavior.

Under the influence of the concept of the harmony of righteousness and profitability, honesty and deception, and the importance of goodwill have become the business ethics of Shanxi merchants. The most direct manifestation of the idea of righteousness and profit is "sincere" and "not deceived", although "do not care about benevolence and righteousness of the line, but only to the machine profit phase of the high" businessmen are many, but practicing honesty and not deceived the businessman Still the mainstream. Such as the Qing dynasty famous Shanxi jiexiu merchant Fan Yongdu, is due to the "and LiaoZhou cargo wealth, long standing faith and righteousness" and by the Qing government's favor, and later when the royal merchant, and thus gained a lot of money.

Honesty is not deceitful, honesty and righteousness as a businessman's way of life and business. "Sincerity calls for the world's customers, the righteousness of the eight sides of the wealth", can be described as the embodiment of the spiritual values of Shanxi merchants.

3, the concept of strategic competition

The idea of righteousness and profit is the spiritual values of Shanxi merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but also the philosophy of business management. However, there is fierce competition in the commodity market, "competing with people relative to profit, the world's most difficult also". Deep strategy, through the power of change, as the way of competition in the shopping mall, reflecting the cultural outlook of the Ming and Qing Dynasty Shanxi merchants another feature.

Ming Zhang Siwei said, "Pu common, good Jia must be phase time and time to live in things and trespassing on its surplus, so its industry has not lifelong (life) to change the old, there is not the end of the year change, and there is an industry unchanged and the world to keep the person."

Such as the aforementioned Shanxi Puzhou businessman Wang Haifeng, "Beginning also to live in the goods to go in all directions, and in the negative hidden with the crowd is not the same. Qingcang the salt pods of the former Taigong Guanzhong area, Tao Zhu Gong according to the accumulation of dry gold also. The country also has a questionable service exists, the law disadvantages Li Yong. Jia over, do not look at it with a straight face. Public only said: this can also live. So the phase of the local conditions, review the time to observe the changes, the study of brine politics,...... people abandoned me to take, people go to me on the, and the public's industry is raked".

4, cultivation of self view

Ancient Chinese thinkers believe that the way to cultivate talent is to "cultivate oneself, Zhenghe, Qiqi family, rule the country, peace," to self-cultivation as a prerequisite. "If you know how to cultivate yourself, then you know how to rule people, and if you know how to rule people, then you know how to rule the world and the country". That is to say, to cultivate oneself is to enable people to have the basic quality requirements to take on the important task of ruling the country and securing the world.

On the standard of these basic qualities, Mencius advocated "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust", the military school of the general's requirements are "wisdom, trust, benevolence, courage and rigor", "three" is summarized as "the road, virtue, righteousness, benevolence, propriety,". The Sanshou summarized it as "Dao, virtue, righteousness, benevolence and propriety". As a result, the Jin merchants were only interested in the wise and the virtuous. Thrift and diligence in business is also an important part of the cultivation of Jin merchants.

5, the application of science and technology view

Mathematics, geography, transportation and businessmen's business activities have a close relationship between the Ming and Qing Dynasty Shanxi merchants pay attention to the practical application of mathematics, geography, transportation and other science and technology. The Ming Dynasty Puzhou businessman Zhang Sijiao, 16-year-old service Jia travel, "the brokerage abolition of residence, salty out of people's minds". His brother, Zhang Siwei said he was "especially fine" nine chapters of the arithmetic "where the square field, corn cloth, hooks and shares, such as the commercial points in the cents of the law in the white head is not willing to understand, my brother are according to the book of the wonderful solution, not from the teacher.

The Jinshang also in the Qing Dynasty, Jiangsu Wang's "business world affairs on the basis of the first step", compiled a "Trade Notes", summarizing the training of apprentices and sit Jia business experience, is a very rich business writings. From the above examples, it is not difficult to see that Shanxi merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties in business activities attach great importance to the application of science and technology, and through the application of science and technology to promote their business activities.

In short, the spirit of the Ming and Qing Jin merchants showed the quality of Shanxi people's business ideas, business strategies, business style, cultural concepts, etc., which is the Jin merchants to achieve commercial success of the valuable spiritual wealth.