The Study Of Shann'xi Tea Trader At Ming And Qing Dynasty

China is the original place of tea plant. Tea has being a very important thing in archaic and neoteric society of China and had various effects on politics, economics, military affairs, diplomatics, nation, commerce, culture and so on. During Ming and Qing Dynasty the trade of tea had been considered as a special political thing because of the government's military defend need. The businessman who appeared in shann'xi province at this time caught the opportunity giving by the government and made full use of the economical and area advantage of China from the middle of Ming Dynasty. During Ming and Qing Dynasty these businessman turned into the protagonist on frontier tea trade because of their tea transportation between Gansu and Qinghai province. They themselves became the most important embranchment of the businessman that rose in shann'xi province. The study of tea trader in shann'xi has a representative meaning on the study of Midwest tea commerce and it's economical development. Firstly we base on the background of the trade between tea and horse's rise and decline, in order to tell the course of shann'xi tea trader's emergence in northwest China at Ming and Qing Dynasty. Then analyze the interrelationship between shann'xi tea trader and the policy that applied in the trade between tea and horse and discuss comprehensively about the reason why this kind of trade declined in late Qing Dynasty. Through summarize the function and menaing of the trade between tea and horse telling the magnificent contribution that made by shann'xi tea trader on Northwest frontier defend work, economical development and nation's incorporation. Secondly we search for the reason why shann'xi tea trader shaped in Mid west tea trade during Ming and Qing Dynasty from politics, economics and culture way. We discussed particularly about the accelerating impact on their appearance that made by the commercial incline of tea trade in Qing Dynasty. A deep analyze on the phenomena that shann'xi tea businessman's emergence in the core agricultural zone of Jingyang and Sanyuan county. Thirdly we explicated shann'xi tea trader's activities including their dealing scale, trading channel ,the meaning of management, the variety of the tea and so on during Ming and Qing Dynasty, in order to demonstrate a spectacular scene of shann'xi tea trader's dealing art and their characteristics. Analyze these special businessman's function on the development of shann'xi province and Northwest zone in China. In the end we still search deeply into the reason why these businessman that flourished in Northwest tea commerce for hundred years from all aspect such as politics, economics, culture. In order to afford some use for reference on today's westward exploitation in China.