The business methods of Huizhou merchants for hundreds of years are as follows

Huizhou merchants have been operating for hundreds of years with honesty, righteousness and benevolence.

Huizhou merchants, namely Huizhou merchants and Xin 'an merchants, commonly known as "Hui Gang", refer to Huizhou (government) merchants. Huizhou merchants come from Huizhou, including six counties: Yun, Xiuning, Wuyuan, Qimen, Yi and Jixi, that is, Guxin 'an County. Among the six counties, the merchants in Ganning and Xiuning are particularly famous. Huizhou merchants became active in the Song Dynasty.

The heyday was the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Huizhou merchants, a famous business gang in China's history, are all in poor mountainous areas, and they can't survive by farming. In the Ming Dynasty, Anhui Geography said that "it is natural for Hui people to buy more merchants." "Huizhou Fuzhi" contains: "Huizhou Xiebao Valley, the mountain depends on the original foothills, the fields are barren, the production is extremely thin, and one year more is earned.

Development background of Huizhou merchants

Huizhou is located at the end of the house, which belongs to the marginal zone, with high mountains and dense forests, changeable terrain and late development. Before the Han Dynasty, the population was small, but in the late Jin, late Song, late Tang and China history, the north moved to Huizhou in southern Anhui with a large population. There are many people and few mountains, and going abroad for business is a way out.

Abundant resources promote business development. The earliest business of Huizhou merchants was grain in mountain products and other places. If the abundant wood resources are used in construction, ink making, paint, tung oil and paper making, these are all commodities exported abroad, and tea is a well-known brand such as Qimenhong and Wuyuan Green. Going out to do business mainly deals in salt, cotton (cloth) and grain.