无锡位于江苏南部,太湖平原的中心。无锡从秦汉之际建县起,千余年间,变化不大。在明代中后期,随着江南社会经济的发展,无锡商业经济开始繁荣,棉织业、砖瓦业、粮食业、造船业、印刷业、酿酒业、泥人业等部门日益兴旺;出现了一大批富商大贾和 Wuxi is located in the southern part of Jiangsu Province, the center of Taihu Lake plain. Wuxi built from the Qin and Han Dynasties occasion, more than a thousand years, little change. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the social and economic development in the south of Yangtze River and the commercial economy in Wuxi beginning to flourish, the cotton textile industry, brick and tile industry, grain industry, shipbuilding industry, printing industry, wine making industry and clay industry were thriving. A large number of enterprises Rich merchants Jia and