Huizhou's Businessmen Spring Up and China's Traditional Forestry
- Received Date: 2002-01-08
Abstract: Huizhou's businessmen who came from the southern mountain area of Anhui Province, was a big business group in China's Ming and Qing dynasties. They were mainly engaged in four kinds of industry, i.e. tea, wood, salt and pawnbroking. Their capital accumulation and the subsequent prosperity were profited from the abundant forest resources. They attached great importance to culture and education, and also paid much attention to the protection of ecological environment and application of advanced forestry techniques in the exploitation and utilization of forest resources. While they managed the business of large amount of forest products from Chinese fir, bamboo, they also took full advantage of the Huizhou's rich natural resources, and they managed some plant resources in a scientific way such as tea, mulberry for silkworm, dry fruits, fruits, oil plants, fibrous plants etc. as well as developed the four treasures of study with Huizhou's features, i.e. writing brush, ink stick, ink slab, paper, thus, formed the Huizhou's forest sustainable development system, which is the valuable wealth of China's traditional forestry.