"Where there are sparrows, there are Shanxi merchants." Shanxi merchants, who once dominated Europe and Asia for 9000 miles and shopping malls for 500 years, wrote a legendary story in the history of national commerce in China, and were called the five major business gangs in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties with Huizhou merchants, Zhejiang merchants, Jiangsu merchants and Guangdong merchants. Shanxi merchants made two great contributions to China's commerce: first, they created and monopolized China's border trade with Mongolia and its foreign trade with Russia; Second, the banking industry, which started financial remittance, was called "the grandfather of China's financial industry" by Yu Xiansheng. Influenced by Confucius and Mencius, Shanxi merchants combined the traditional Confucian principles of being a man with management and financial management, paid equal attention to Confucianism and merchants, and paid attention to "a gentleman loves money and takes it wisely." They are all businessmen with noble business quality. Business is bound to be profitable, but their profit-seeking behavior is a legitimate business activity under the guidance of the correct concept of justice and benefit, not mercenary, and they have their own unique understanding and opinions on the issues of beliefs and interests; They take honesty as the foundation, regard business reputation above everything else, and would rather suffer huge economic losses and safeguard the reputation of the firm; They call their peers "phase", fair competition and mutual support; They regard expanding the trade field as the main way to become stronger and bigger, constantly innovate their business methods and adjust and expand their business scope. In that era when carriages were the main means of transportation, they struggled to travel around the world. From Wuyishan to Chaketu, there are bones everywhere, which is the suffering left by Shanxi merchants. ...

However, in the early Republic of China, the domestic smoke filled the air and the situation was turbulent, and the Shanxi merchants vanished in an instant. Leave a tragic page in the modern history of China.

Therefore, Shanxi merchants are "nine thousand miles across Europe and Asia, dominating shopping malls for 500 years"