Businessmen In The World, The World Situation In The Qing Dynasty Novel

In ancient China, there was a thought paying attention to agriculture and ignoring business, therefore, we can see very little historical data about the traders'living conditions . But novels have retained many description of the businessmen's . the content of these novels is not entirely true But fiction writers were from that era, they certainly create novels with a brand that era. Especially after the late Ming , many novels reflecting reality of society emergent . In these novels, we can find all the kinds of businessmen images, we can learn about the idea of businessmen's in that era.This paper collects information mainly from novels supplied by Difangzhi and Notes through these information shows business life at that time. This paper includes three aspects, merchant family life, business activity and their contribution to development of culture in the Qing Dynasty.In the Qing Dynasty realistic novels, what we can see the most frequently is vivid picture of the businessmen's family lives. They have many similarities with ordinary families and a lot of different from ordinary families because of the characteristic of their career. When The Qing Dynasty realistic novel describes merchant's family relationships, a businessman was always looked as a sentimental person. In the most of businessmen's families , businessmen had a good feeling with their wives, they respect their parents, they tried their best to give their sons good education.Business operating condition is a important part of a businessman's life. When writers of these novels narrated the stories which about commodities'produce and exchanging, they attained the social appearance of that times. It is important that this kind of novel afford real business operating conditions, which can be proofed by other historical materials.In the Qing Dynasty, businessmen are very important to the development of culture. So there are many contends of relationship between the businessmen and the culture in the Qing Dynasty realistic novels. These contends included many aspects .Accelerating the opera development, pressing and sealing books, making friends to Scholars are import aspects.