春秋战国时期社会发生剧烈动荡,随着官府对士农工商的控制减弱,整个社会的经济文化交流空前活跃,百家争鸣的局面开始出现,商业也获得广阔的发展空间。据史书记载,东方的鱼盐、南方的象牙、北方的皮革、西方的马匹在当时中原地区市场上都可以买到。商人的活动日益频繁,商品交换的规模不断扩大,此时出现了有名的“春秋三义商”:范蠡、子贡、白圭。这些大商人或有深厚的政治背景,或有广博的学问,或有雄辩的口才,往来于城乡之间,周游于列国之中,折冲樽俎,合纵连横,塑造了早期中国商人的商业神话。 The social turmoil took place in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. With the government’s control over the industrialists and businessmen being weakened, the economic and cultural exchanges among the entire society were unprecedentedly flourishing. The situation of a hundred schools of thought began to emerge, and commercial space for development was also widened. According to historical records, the fish and salt in the East, the ivory in the south, the leather in the north and the horses in the West were all available in the Central Plains at that time. The activities of merchants are increasingly frequent, the scale of commodity exchange continues to expand, there was a well-known “Spring Sanyi business ”: Fan Li, Zi Gong, Bai Kyu. These large businessmen either have a profound political background, extensive academic knowledge or eloquent eloquence. They travel between urban and rural areas and travel among the nations. They break the stereotypes and make the business of early Chinese merchants myth.