Dongguan businessmen's guangshang spirit

"The nearly 1,000-year tradition of planting, processing and open trade of Guanxiang has become part of the cultural traditions of Liao Bu and even Dongguan and Lingnan, and has become a regional cultural gene with outstanding individual characteristics." Since the Song Dynasty, especially since the Ming and Qing dynasties, every year from late November to December of the lunar calendar is the Dongguan incense farmers chiseling picking Guanxiang season, incense farmers will be all kinds of Guanxiang transported to the incense market to go up to the trading sales. Merchants from all over Dongguan, incense vendors, gathered in the incense market, they will Guanxiang through the Hanxi River to Shek Pai Wan (now Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong) transit, exported to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Beijing and Southeast Asia, etc., and became the tribute to the court nobles and the fashionable consumer goods that people scrambled to buy at that time. Dongguan incense trade can be so prosperous, according to the "Ancient and Modern Books" of the "Guangzhou Province Produce Examination" in the record, Dongguan "more people to plant incense for the industry, the rich thousands of trees, the poor also hundreds of trees. The son of incense, incense tiller, high Zeng yi, several generations to enjoy its benefits", so to have "Lingnan incense country" said. It can be seen, Guanxiang and other places of incense is different, Guanxiang in ancient times to a large extent by artificial planting. What is even more unexpected is that in addition to planting on the hillside, the ancient incense farmers also planted peanuts, fenzi and sugar cane in the arable land, and then planted Guanxiang on the ground tombs to form a three-dimensional planting structure, and this scale also ensured the yield. In addition, Liao Bu has convenient land and water transportation, which facilitates trade. The Guanxiang trade itself embodies a sense of honesty, a sense of rules, and a spirit of dedication and adventure. It is a sense of commerce and wisdom. "Only with integrity and rules consciousness, Guanxiang only in Liao Bu set scattered into the city; only with dedication and the spirit of adventure, Guanxiang can be involved in the river and across the ocean dare to be the first."