晋商是明清时期我国很重要的一个大的商人集团。明朝初年,在西北地区兴起。到了明代中叶,正式形成商帮,就是说以地域为纽带形成了大的商人集团,那时它主要以有一定贸易自由的贩运商人组成。明人沈思孝在《晋录》中说：“平阳、泽潞豪商贾甲天下,非数十万不称富。”到了清代,晋商进入鼎盛 The Shanxi merchants are a big group of businessmen in our country during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The early Ming Dynasty, the rise in the northwest. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the formal formation of commercial gangs meant that the formation of a large group of businessmen by geographical ties was mainly composed of trafficked traders with a certain degree of freedom of trade. Ming Shen Hsiao in the “Jin recorded” said: “Pingyang, Ze Lu Hao Jiajia the world, not hundreds of thousands of not rich.” To the Qing Dynasty, Shanxi business into the heyday