Businessmen were originally called by the adherents of Shang Dynasty in the early Zhou Dynasty. Although China has been in a backward agricultural society for a long time and entered the commercial society several centuries later than the western countries, the commerce in China actually appeared as early as the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty during the slavery period, and the Shang Dynasty in Xia Hou gradually established a slave country. With the continuous improvement of productive forces, the commercial trade of Shang Dynasty also developed, and people specialized in land and water transportation and commodity exchange appeared. During the prosperity of Shang Dynasty, some Shang people often went to neighboring ethnic areas to exchange agricultural products. So in the eyes of foreigners, it is businessmen who do business. BC16th century, the Shang Dynasty established its capital in a place called Bo (now Shangqiu North, Henan Province), and later moved to. Later, when the King of Wu attacked and the Shang Dynasty perished, people in the Shang Dynasty took the country as their surname, which is the origin of the Shang surname today. The royal family of Shang Dynasty was sealed in Song Dynasty, and businessmen were good at doing business. People call these businessmen "businessmen", and people are used to taking "businessmen" as a general term for businessmen. Famous businessmen in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, such as Fan Li.