A Comparative Study between Hui Merchants and Jin Merchants in the Ming and Qing Dynasties——Their Common Points from the Angle of Historical Geography

The historical geographical environment,is often the essential condition for social material life and social development.Any historical record should start from these natural foundations and their changes occured as a result of people's activities in the course of history.Similarly the study on Hui merchauts and Jin merchants ought to begin from this point as well.It's just the status of large population,limited farm land and the vital buiness communication lines that makes the two big business groups take the business road spontaeously.