The origin of "businessman" ~

In the later period of primitive society, human society appeared the exchange activity of bartering things. More than 4000 years ago, there lived an ancient tribe in the Yellow River valley. Their leader is Qi, who helps Dayu control water. His tribe is called Shang tribe. Qi's grandson invented the carriage first, and Wang Hai, the sixth grandson, invented the ox cart. This is the record of "establishing soap prison, serving cattle and horses for the benefit of the people" in the history books. With the rapid development of agriculture and animal husbandry, they have produced a surplus of things. Wang Hai, the sixth grandson of Qi State, is good at business. He often leads slaves, drives cattle carts to pull goods, and drives cattle and sheep to foreign tribes to trade.

Shang tribe established Shang Dynasty in Shang Tang period. Because businessmen are good at doing business, people in other tribes call them businessmen. Since then, the word "businessman" has been passed down to this day.

In the commercial history of China, the record that Wang Hai was engaged in commercial trade and was killed is the earliest record of commercial trade behavior in ancient China literature, and Wang Hai was the leader of the Shang tribe at that time. Therefore, Wang Hai was the first businessman in China and the originator of China's commerce.

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Although China has been in a backward agricultural society for a long time and entered the commercial society several centuries later than the western countries, the commerce in China actually appeared as early as the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty during the slavery period, and the Shang Dynasty in Xia Hou gradually established a slave country. With the continuous improvement of productive forces, the commercial trade of Shang Dynasty also developed, and people specialized in land and water transportation and commodity exchange appeared.

During the prosperous period of Shang dynasty, some Shang people often went to the surrounding ethnic areas to exchange agricultural products. BC16th century, the Shang Dynasty established its capital in a place called Bo (now north of Shangqiu, Henan Province), and then moved to Yin, which is today's Xiaotun village in Anyang, Henan Province, which was called Yin Shang in history.

Later, when the King of Wu attacked and the Shang Dynasty perished, people in the Shang Dynasty took the country as their surname, which is the origin of the Shang surname today. The royal family of Shang Dynasty was sealed in Song Dynasty, and businessmen were good at doing business. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, these businessmen were generally called businessmen. Although with the development of history, merchants no longer take Shang Dynasty as the main body, people are used to taking merchants as the general term.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, although he was still a businessman directly controlled by the government, he was already a specialized profession.

China News Network-The Origin of "Businessman"