1. Ancient Huizhou merchants refer to Huizhou merchants, also known as Huizhou merchants and Xin 'an merchants, commonly known as "Hui Gang", the floorboard of old Huizhou merchants, which flourished in the middle of Qing Dynasty.

2. Huizhou merchants, that is, Huizhou merchants.

Huizhou merchants began in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 127-1279) and developed in the late Yuan Dynasty (127 1-1368) and the early Ming Dynasty (1368).

3. Huizhou merchants are often official businessmen. Once Huizhou merchants made their fortune, they returned to their hometown in splendor, Gai Lou, built ancestral temples, bridges and halls to worship their ancestors and expand their power; He was particularly keen on developing schools, running schools, running examination halls, cultivating feudal talents and consolidating patriarchal clan system.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huizhou celebrities came forth in large numbers. There are only 20 18 Jinshi in five small counties (the first level of ancient scientific research in China), while 43 people in Shexian County were included in the poetry forest and the literary garden in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there were "three halls in Lianke, four Hanlins in ten miles", and both father and son were "ministers" (.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the commodity economy was unprecedentedly active, and Huizhou merchants mainly engaged in four major industries: salt, pawn, tea and wood. At that time, there was a saying in the south of the Yangtze River that Huizhou merchants became one of the largest business gangs in China.