唐代文学视阈中的药商形象探析

唐代经济高度繁荣，商业经济发展迅猛，一方面越来越多的人认识到从事商品交易带来财富的便利性并加入到这个队伍中；另一方面，唐的统治策略却还在打压和支持商业的两端徘徊，态度暧昧，这就导致了当时商贾身份地位的尴尬。但是在唐时的文学作品中却对从事药材买卖的药商给予了完全正面的评价，这主要是中国传统儒家思想影响以及文人自身身份地位决定的。

Analysis on the Image of Druggists in the Perspective of Tang Literature

With the highly prosperous economy and the rapid developed business in Tang dynasty, on the one hand, more and more people joined the ranks of commodity trading owing to their recognition of the convenience brought by it; on the other hand, Tang governing strategies hovered between suppression and support with an uncertain attitude, which led to the embarrassed status of the merchants. However, Tang literary works rendered the druggists positive comments, which mainly resulted from the influ- ence of Chinese traditional Confucianism and their own status as literary men.