明清徽商与茶叶市场

Huizhou Merchants and Tea Market in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

明清茶叶市场有初级、中级、边疆和海外运销四个类型,其时的徽州茶商根据经营方式的不同,分为产销型和贩销型两类。贸易区域的扩大、饮茶风习盛行、茶叶生产的进步和商茶法的松动促进了这一时期茶叶市场的发展。徽商的发展与市场的活跃两者处在互动之中。

It is the enlargement of economic areas, the popularity of drinking tea, the development of technology of cultivating and processing tea, and more mobility in tea trade that enhance the development of tea market in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Such market is composed of the following types： primary, middle, border areas and oversea areas. Accordingly, the merchants consist of those involved in production and marketing, and those in transportation and marketing according to ways of management. Hence, the booming of Huizhou merchants and the prosperity of tea markets are closely related to each other and in interaction.