《儒林外史》给了我们极其丰富的儒林士人风情卷,同时也给了我们彼时商人的形象图。《儒林外史》中大概有五种商人形象,通过他们我们能看到彼时的商业界,也能看到吴敬梓理想的商人的价值取向。吴敬梓把商人放在商业经济极大繁荣的社会中去观照,从而绘出了自己理想中的商人庄濯江等人,并表现出与儒家正统道德价值不完全相同的价值取向。 “Scholars” gave us extremely rich Confucian style, but also gave us the image of the businessman of that period. There are about five kinds of merchants in “The Scholars”, through which we can see the business circles of the time and the values ​​of the ideal businessman Wu Jingzi. Wu Jingzi put the businessmen in the great prosperous society to observe the business, so as to draw his own ideal businessman Zhuang Jiujiang and others, and showed the Confucian orthodox moral value is not exactly the same value orientation.