On the Social Intercourse between the Intellectuals and the Businessman during the mid and late Ming Dynasty

During the mid and late Ming period, with commerce thriving greatly and the transform of social idea on businessman and trade, the intellectuals and the businessman, who had hardly communicated with each other before, increased social intercourse, which constitutes a social phenomenon that became especially popular. Wang Yangming School purported that the intellectuals, the peasantry, the handicraftsman and businessman had equal social status, but the social intercourse of the intellectuals who had core status among traditional society and the businessman wasn't actually equal. The thesis mainly analyzes the reason and the phenomenon of the social intercourse of the intellectuals and the businessman during the mid and late Ming period, and make comments from the point of view of culture, in order to comprehend the intellectuals and mutual relations between the intellectuals and the businessman.