Why are Shanxi people called "Jews in China"?

When we say that Shanxi people are "Jews in China", we mean that they are good at business and financial calculation. People joke that American wallets are in Jewish pockets. The Jewish nation has always been known for its good actuarial management. In the strong frugality fashion, Shanxi people have always been good at business and calculation, which has induced the development of business, especially the emergence of draft banks. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shanxi people almost completely mastered the hegemony of China's financial industry. From 65438 to 1970s, a European traveler made seven field trips to China, and gave a detailed description of people in almost every province in China. "Jews in China" is a European traveler's evaluation of Shanxi people's commercial temperament. He believes: "Shanxi people have excellent business and big enterprise spirit. At that time, the leading financial institution-Shanxi draft bank controlled the whole country and dominated the financial market. It can be said that computing and intelligent labor are the only products exported by the province. " "Among all China people, the most developed concepts of scale, number and measurement unique to China and the financial inclination based on this concept belong to Shanxi people." (China's National Character, edited by Sha) In Hollywood, California, USA, China's film Raise the Red Lantern was nominated for the Academy Award. "Hanging the Red Lantern High" was shot at Qiao Family Courtyard in Qixian County, which was once the leader of Shanxi financial business. It's not this movie that makes the Qiao family courtyard famous, it's not because this movie makes the Qiao family famous, and it's not because this movie won the first prize and became an old man. Instead, a "Fusheng Palace" with modern commercial chain stores and a bank with the characteristics of modern financial institutions have emerged, resulting in generations of "Mongolian traders". These bankers and "international profiteers" established China Street in the lower reaches of the Volga River more than 200 years ago, which is far older than Chinatown in the United States. Many China commodities enter Central and Western Europe from here. They rode horses, pulled camels, pushed the Mongolian word "Che Le", crossed the Gobi desert and grassland, and went to Europe along the trans-siberian railway, which was later called the first Eurasian continental bridge. Today's international "profiteers" shuttle back and forth on this commercial road to enrich themselves, but their means of transportation have been replaced by express trains. The rise of Shanxi merchants in those years was directly related to the open development environment in which Kangxi banned the sea in 30 or 40 years, and to the "immigrant frontier" after Jiaqing before the collapse of feudal society. The footprints of Shanxi money houses and businessmen are not only all over the Great Wall and the north and south of the river, but also all over the developed "counties in wuyue, mostly from Shanxi Province." (A Record of the Holy Father of Qing Dynasty) And its tentacles have extended to Moscow and Tokyo, Japan. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Shanxi, represented by Qixian, Taigu and Pingyao, was in full swing in business. Here are just a few examples, which can be seen. Xugou County: "Poor people learn their books". In Pinglu county, "people rely more on books, and books don't rely on people." Taigu County "has many businessmen outside, and the middle and lower classes make a living from businessmen except a few landlords." Yuxian "is far away from business, although it is thousands of miles away."