The Exploraiton Of Huizhou Merchants’ Family Life

The author based on newly discovered Wang’s Letters to select the familydaily life in this perspective, explore the life of the real state of a merchant family.The first part of the Letters of the Huizhou Merchant Wang’s discovery, thecollation of the text, the textual criticism of the Letters and Letters of researchvalue discussed. The second part describes the Huizhou region, family and smallfamily co-exist, to analyze Wang Teng jiao family structure reflected in theLetters and highlighted the scale of Huizhou medium merchant family. The thirdpart of the typical merchants’ family division of labor within the study. Firstly, thegender division of labor. Secondly, the professional division of labor. The fourthpart of the balance of payments situation of the economic life of Wang’s merchantfamily to expand the quantitative analysis. Wang’s family income consists of threeparts: Firstly, Wang Teng jiao male family members to go out business income;Wang Teng jiao will the remainder of the business income capital investment ininterest-bearing; Jia-kind rent by leasing the land. Wang’s family expenses can bedivided into multiple levels of consumption: Firstly, the survival of consumption;the development of consumption; enjoy or luxury consumption. Fifth part ofaround Wang Teng jiao brothers donate satisfied official career to start to WangTeng jiao psychological analysis of the changes and fluctuations, and show aglimpse of a feudal the officialdom life of the grass-roots officials, and thus revealthe corruption of the feudal grass-roots level of the mid-Qing officialdom.Through the system, we found that the Huizhou Merchant Wang’s Letters is agreat historical value, letters reflect true and reliable, small and medium-sizedmerchants the lives of the actual state through a case study of the merchants’family or discovery.