| Based on the development of the ShanShaan Merchant,this paper focuses on the formation,distribution and the name variation of the ShanShaan Guild Hall in the Ming-Qing Dynasty,and then probes into the interactive relationship between the ShanShaan Guild Hall and the ShanShaan Merchant.The dissertation includes 4 sections.In section one ,the author analyses the reasons about the emergence of the ShanShaan Guild Hall ,and then illustrates its four constitutions-the Gentry Guild Hall ,the Imperial Examination Guild Hall,the Business Guild Hall and the Immigration Guild Hall in details.In section two ,the author presents the general distribution of the ShanShaan Guild Hall and surveys the characteristics of the distribution.Combining with the development of the ShanShaan Merchant,the author, offers its reasons.In the third section, the author explores the reasons of the ShanShaan Guild Hall's name variation and sums up its variation law that the name variation of the ShanShaan Guild Hall is determined by the development of the ShanShaan Merchant and the former reflects the change of the latter.In the last section,the author summarizes the interactive relationship between the ShanShaan Guild Hall and the ShanShaan Merchant. |