Who is the originator of business in China?

Throughout the ages, society has always referred to buyers and sellers as "businessmen" and the act of doing business as "doing business". "Businessmen" have existed since ancient times. Although they are rich, they have never had a corresponding social status. In his Five Insects, Han Feizi called industrialists and businessmen one of the "Five Insects", which is a kind of social moth. There is no separate biography of businessmen in Twenty-four Histories, but some businessmen are mentioned in The Story of Foodstuffs and Biography of Huo Zhi.

As early as 4,000 years ago, Di Ku's second concubine Judy gave birth to an uncle because she ate a mysterious bird. Therefore, Ode to Poets and Merchants said: "The mysterious bird was born by destiny." Wei Xiao is the ancestor of Shang. Xiangtu, the grandson of Wei Xiao, first invented the carriage, and Wang Hai, the grandson of VI, invented the ox cart. This is the record of "establishing soap prison, serving cattle and horses for the benefit of the people" in the history books. With the rapid development of agriculture and animal husbandry, Shang tribes quickly became powerful, and they produced excessive things. So Wang Hai used ox carts to pull goods and drive cattle and sheep to make deals with other tribes, and people from other tribes called them "businessmen". Since then, the word "merchant" has been used as a synonym for "buyer and seller" and has been passed down to this day.

Born in the Han nationality, Wan (now Nanyang, Henan) was born in the Spring and Autumn Period. A famous politician, strategist and industrialist in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Later generations called it "Shangsheng". He was born in poverty, but he read widely and had a deep understanding and interaction with Chu Wanling's style of writing. Dissatisfied with the political darkness of Chu at that time, non-nobles were not allowed to enter the official, and they went to Yue to assist Gou Jian. He helped Gou Jian to prosper the State of Yue and destroy the State of Wu. He retired, put on a white robe, went out of Gusu with his teacher, and went boating between the five lakes and seventy-two peaks. During this period, he became rich in business three times and distributed his wealth three times. His name is Tao Zhugong, the originator of Confucian businessmen in China. The reputation of the world: "loyalty is the country; Wisdom protects the body; Famous for being rich. "