The Poetry And Business In Song Dynasty

This article combines study of poetry and business in Song Dynasty organically. It tries hard to generalize the characteristic and the basic form of business in Song Dynasty, through a unique visual angle and insert point of the business poetry. The first section of the dissertation is composed of the exposition of city market,rural market and foreign trade in Song Dynasty. The layout of city market in Song Dynasty has broken through the restriction on the traditional residence-market systerm in time and space. Commercial campaign field is expanding and economic structure tends to diversify. The commercialization of social products is improved obviously. Fairs and towns with much quantity and broad spreading constitute rural market and its network systerm in mutiple levels. The development of rural market supports the prosperity of city market of which promotions of its scale accelerate the urbanization process. In foreign trade aspect, southeast sailing line became chief passageway of external economic exchange. In easy circumstance, trading policy brings prosperity of overseas trade gradually. The economy of the area near the port also has corresponding development. Commence of Song Dynasty presents unprecedented overall development. The second section of the dissertation is the overall investigation of groups in business expecially the professional busiessmen in poetry of Song Dynasty. The major strength of market is rich tradesmen in wealth and influence. Small retailers scattered in rural market are the most active in the market. Other social members also participate in commercial trading campaign actively, which show the infiltration and radiation of commodity economy towards the society of Song Dynasty. At the same time, this paper also investigates and discusses these aspects such as the business risk, spiritual faith, marriage and family of businessmen, which is concerned little before. Also all of these provide evidence to recognize and evaluate businessmen in Song Dynasty comprehensively and objectively. The third section is the study of specific case in business poetry. The famous poets like Lu You, Fan Chengda in Song Dynasty composed plenty of business poetries. In some degree, their poems reflected the development situation of business trade in special period and area. The description to kinds of businessmen was vivid and unique. These poems mirror the basic condition of the development of business thoroughly in Southern Song and Nnorthern) Song Dynasty, display the thread and progress tendency clearly and uncover the distinguishing economic feature of the times, which is sped up by the civilization of industry and commerce in Song Dynasty.