山西在明清两朝号称海内最富,这里孕育着一批中国最早的商人,他们被称为“晋商”。这一历经百年风雨的商帮,引领了中国最古老的商业文化,曾经走出一条横跨亚洲大陆绵延万里的商路,使晋商的生意遍布全国及北亚地区,成为中国最大的商业金融机构。明中叶后期,中国商品经济发展迅速,贸易往来频繁,各地商帮纷纷崛起。对于山西人来说,视读书甚轻,以商业为重,于是便发展形成了一个庞大 Shanxi is the richest country in the Ming and Qing dynasties and is home to some of the earliest merchants in China. They are called “Shanxi Merchants.” This centuries-old business man, led by China’s oldest business culture, has walked out of a vast stretch of trade routes across the continent of Asia to make the business of the Shanxi merchants all over the country and in North Asia and become China’s largest commercial financial institution . In the latter half of Ming Dynasty, China’s commodity economy developed rapidly with frequent trade exchanges, and commercial and business groups in various places all emerged in succession. For Shanxi, depending on reading is very light, business-oriented, so they developed a huge