清代徽商与茶叶贸易

茶叶贸易是徽州商帮在明代中叶形成以后最重要的经营活动之一。入清之后,徽商叶贸易经厉了兴盛、低谷、中兴和衰落四个阶段,并形成了经营方式一体化,经营活动季节性、兼营现象普遍和资本组多样性等突出的特点。光绪中叶以后,因入侵的外国资本主义势力的打击,国际市场上洋茶的冲击及徽商本身在非经营性消费方面投入过多等因素,徽商茶叶贸易最终走向衰落。清代徽州茶商的兴衰历程,正是传统的中国封建商人近代社会中的缩影响。

Huizhou merchants of the Qing dynasty and tea trade

The trade of tea was one of the major commercial practices in the mid - Ming Dynasty conducted by the Huizhou Merchants. In the Qing Dynasty, the trade of tea witnessed prosperity, depression, moderate rise and decline, displaying the following characteristics - systemized marketing, seasonal practice, multiple lines, and variety of capital composition. Since the mid - reign of the Guangxu Emperor, with the intruding foreign capitalism, the competitive foreign tea, and over - expenses for non - marketing activities, the trade of tea of the Huizhou Merchants was approaching decline. Such a process of rise - to - decline exemplifies the situation of the Chinese feudalistic merchants in the modern times.