论地方志商人传记的思想倾向

A Study on Thought-orientation of Merchants' Biography in Huizhou Local Chronicles

地方志商人传记是商人传记中的一种。通过对地方志中商人传记进行分析,可以发现儒家思想在这些商人传记中占统治地位,佛教思想只是潜隐的补充。这与文集商人传记中佛教思想占重要地位相比有很大的差别,地方志商人传记与文集商人传记思想倾向存在差异的原因是,地方志商人传记是官方著述,文集商人传记是私家著述。两者之间在思想倾向上的差异,决定了地方志商人传记适合用来研究封建政府对于商人的引导,文集商人传记适合用来研究商人的精神世界。

Merchants biograpry in local chronicles is one kind of merchant biographies. Through the analysis of biography of merchants in the local chronicles of Huizhou, we can draw a conclusion teat Confucianism thought occupies a dominant position while the buddhism thinking is just a hidden supplement, which is much different from the one in the collected works of biography of merchants where Buddhism occupies an important position. Their differences are that the biography of merchants in the local chronicles are official writings, while the biography of merchants in corpusare private writings. Because of the difference of their thought - ori- entation, local chrom＇cles biography of merchants are suitable for studying the guidance given by feudal government to businessmen, and the biography, merchants in corpus are suitable for the study of the businessmen＇ s spirit world.