What are the main contents of Shanxi merchant culture?

Shanxi merchant culture can be divided into three kinds of spirits.

1, team spirit

Shanxi merchants attach great importance to exerting group strength in their business activities. In the patriarchal society, they unite with each other by the friendship of the village community, maintain the guild hall, worship the gods to enhance mutual understanding, help coordinate the relationship between business firms with loyalty and harmony, eliminate interpersonal discord, and form large and small business groups.

2. Professionalism

The professionalism of Shanxi businessmen is often praised. Respect was originally a basic category of Confucian philosophy. Confucius advocated that people should always be diligent and diligent in keeping their homes and do their best for their careers. He said things like "to the deacon", "to the thing" and "to himself".

3. enterprising spirit

It is with this spirit of self-improvement that many Shanxi businessmen have made great achievements from scratch. For example, Wang Xiangqing, one of the founders of the famous Dasheng Kuixing, a native of Taigu, Shanxi, was born in a poor family since childhood and was forced by life. He worked as a servant, cook and handyman in the ancient department of Yang Fei of the Qing army.

Later, Jason, a native of Qixian County, Shanxi Province, traded with Datong Camp. First of all, they shouldered their burdens and pulled camels. Later, they opened a "Jishengtang" office in Uryasutai and Cobuduo, which was later renamed "Dashengkui". After many hardships, they finally started from scratch. By the time of Yongzheng, Dashengkui was already a large-scale firm.

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The residential buildings of Shanxi merchants more intensively reflect the unique style of residential buildings in northern China. For example, Ding Cun residential buildings in Xiangfen County, Qiaojiabao and Qujia Courtyard in Qixian County, Wangs Courtyard in Lingshi, Sanduotang in Taigu and Changjia Courtyard in Yuci are all outstanding representatives. See Taiyuan Road Shanxi Merchants Culture Shanxi Merchants Courtyard for details.

Due to various historical and social reasons, Shanxi merchants' families showed different charms. Judging from the time of prosperity, although Shanxi merchants dominated the business community for more than five centuries in Ming and Qing dynasties, from the family case, the time of prosperity generally will not exceed two or three hundred years. Geographically, the big merchant families were mostly in the south of Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty and in the middle of Shanxi in the Qing Dynasty. For details about the case of Shanxi merchants' family, please refer to the famous Shanxi merchants' family on Taiyuan Road.