Who is Shangqiu Sanshang?

Sanshang refers to merchants, commodities and merchants. Sanshang originated in Shangqiu, the ancestral home of Sanshang, and was called "the ancestor of Chinese businessmen" by Wang Hai, a merchant. With the rapid development of agriculture and animal husbandry in ancient times, Shang tribes became strong rapidly, and they produced a surplus of things. So Wang Hai, the ancestor of Shang Dynasty, developed production in Shangqiu with cattle and horses, pulled goods with ox carts, and engaged in transactions in other tribes, which initiated the commercial trade in China. Over time, people call the merchant tribes engaged in trade activities "merchants", the goods used for exchange as "commodities" and the businesses engaged in by merchants as "buying and selling".

A businessman refers to a person who takes some tangible or intangible resources of himself or society as a tool to obtain profits and assumes certain social responsibilities, or refers to a person who conducts business activities in his own name and takes it as his business.

Commodity is the result of labor for sale, the product of the development of human social productive forces to a certain historical stage, and the labor product for exchange.

Commerce is an economic activity that makes goods circulate through buying and selling, and also refers to the national economic department that organizes the circulation of goods. Industry and commerce are the mainstream and leading force of the city, and advanced and developed commerce is the symbol of modern urban economic development.