明清时期,岭南人观念与内地相比,其商业意识日趋拉开距离。明代,便有亦官亦商者,如嘉靖时南海人霍韬在吏部任职时,便在佛山经营炭铁和盐生意而发家致富。弃儒经商者,在清代更为盛行,有应试不第而经商者,亦有不应试而去经商的。至于官位不高的,当上了,也宁 During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, compared with the Mainland, the concept of Lingnan people gradually broadened their commercial awareness. In the Ming Dynasty, there were also officials and merchants. For example, when Huo Tao, a member of the South China Sea in Jiajing, assumed office in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he made fortune by running the business of carbon, iron and salt in Foshan. Abandoning the Confucian Traders in the Qing Dynasty is more prevalent, there are examiners who fail to do business, and some should not try to do business. As for the official position is not high, when it is, but also rather