The Ten Great Merchant Guilds () were the variously influential groups of merchants and businessmen in Chinese history. They were:
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Shanxi Merchants Shanxi merchants, also known as Jin merchants (), were the group of merchants from Shanxi province, China. ''Jin'' is an abbreviated name of Shanxi. Even though the history of noticeable Shanxi merchants can be dated back to as early as the Spring ...
(晉商) - also known as Jin merchants
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Huizhou Merchants - based in modern
Huangshan, Anhui
Huangshan (), is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui Province, People's Republic of China. Huangshan means ''Yellow Mountain'' in Chinese and the city is named after the famously scenic Yellow Mountains which cover much of the city's vast ge ...
* Longyou Merchants (龍游商幫) - based in modern western Zhejiang province
* Ningbo Merchants (寧波商幫)
* Dongting Merchants 洞庭商幫 - based in the Dongting region of modern Suzhou
* Jiangxi Merchants (江西商幫) - also known as the Jiangyou Merchants (江右商幫)
* Guangdong Merchants
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Shaanxi Merchants
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Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
Merchants
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Fujian (Min) Merchants
See also
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Hong (business)
A ''hong'' () originally designates both a type of building and a type of Chinese merchant intermediary in Guangzhou
Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capit ...
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Cohong
References
Guilds
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