The social status of ancient merchants in China for thousands of years has always been despised, why is this?

In ancient times, people who walk the streets and lanes specializing in the sale of goods called merchants, because merchants have money, money can make the devil to push the mill, and if there is a social status, it is very unfavorable to the stability of the political situation. So the scholar-agricultural-industrialist, put the merchants at the end of the line to suppress.

In ancient times people would trade activities at noon, the people gathered in a place merchants sell things, buy things people buy some of their own needs. The status of the merchants in ancient times was very bad, they clothes could not be worn casually, and their children could not enter the dynasty as officials. Even if they were very rich it was hard to find a good marriage partner, and in the Han Dynasty the daughters of merchants could not even be counted as children of good families. Shun was the first merchant. When he was young, Shun farmed in Alexandria, fished in Leizhe, made pottery on the banks of the Yellow River, made household utensils in Shouqiu, and ran a small business in Nixia. In later times the government restricted the movement of the remnants of the Yin Shang, but allowed them to do business, and slowly people called those who did business merchants.The activities of merchants were restricted and monitored by the government, and the status of merchants began to decline.

The emphasis on agriculture and the suppression of commerce cannot be viewed solely in terms of its essence, for there are countless factors that produce the essence. The reason why we emphasize agriculture, because agriculture is the fundamental, is the output of the land, is food for the sky. The essence of business is to seek profit, whether it is technological development, land output, human heart indoctrination, ethical program all regard profit-oriented as a flood beast. You can see Huawei as the pride of businessmen because of its push for technological innovation. However, the nature of most businessmen is actually associative, with the pursuit of profit as the root.

The country is based on business, that is, the country is based on profit, such a national policy of the ancients are not acceptable. Because money this thing, nothing more than gold and iron things, nothing more than paper and numbers. Previously agriculture, now is the manufacturing industry, China is in fact until now, suppression of business is to prevent speculation, heavy agriculture or heavy manufacturing industry, is the foundation of the country. For thousands of years, China's ancient people are wise, just the general public do not understand it.