What is the meaning of the term "businessman", and what is the difference between "business" and "jia"?

At a later date, the social and economic development of society, the ruling government saw the businessman to the community to bring the benefits of the effect of the gradual recognition of the social status of the businessman. At first, most merchants were ordinary farmers who sold their excess produce or ingredients to others in exchange for other items they needed.

Subsequently, in the process of trading goods, many people found out that different places due to the different products, so the value of the items judged differently, also known as the ? price difference? They take advantage of the difference in price between different items between the two places, walking in the two places, the goods will be sold, so as to earn profits. So there is a group of people who specialize in selling goods for a living, which is also known as the prototype of the merchant.

Subsequently, with the accumulation of money, the interests of the expansion, people will be this kind of selling expanded to a farther place, so there is a specialized? Shang? This designation. At the same time there is also a part of the people who are impatient to run around day and night, and in a place to put down roots to a fixed house to serve as a trading place, which is the prototype of the later stores.

With the emergence of a large number of stores, so people called them ? Jia? , and because of the ? Shang? and the name of the company was not the same as the name of the company. Jia? are both the same in nature, just in different ways, so in later times the ? The name "Shang" is used to refer to a group of merchants who are not in the same position. and Ja? Jia? are collectively referred to as merchants.

In summary, ? The traveling merchant and the seated merchant? mainly refers to those mobile walking for? The main point is that those who move and walk are called "merchants". Ja? In fact, there is no essential difference between the two sides, only the behavior of the? The two sides are not fundamentally different, it is only the behavioral difference. and? Sitting? The difference is just that.