Chinese Businessmen Museum

Beijing Jinshang Museum, located at No. 58 Jianguo Road, the east extension of Chang'an Street, is an antique cultural industrial park, also known as the No. 58 compound. The museum collects more than 40,000 pieces of Shanxi merchants' commercial cultural relics. It has exhibition halls and clubs. The whole park is equipped with Shaolin Suzhai, mahogany furniture, silk, ceramics and other themed clubs. It is currently the largest private museum about merchants and commerce in the country. , is a business and cultural activity place with novel, creative and classical elements. The park consists of nine buildings. Among them, Building 1 is the main building of the park, including the Shanxi Merchants Museum, as well as a large-scale clubhouse integrating exhibitions, conferences, theaters, studios, and Chinese and Western restaurants; Building 2 is Shaolin Su Zhai; Buildings 3 and 8 are one Antique and characteristic commercial street; Buildings 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 are themed halls of mahogany, silk, Buddhism, Chinese medicine, etc. The museum has more than 40,000 pieces of stamps, money printing plates, documents, bank notes, contracts, contracts, account books, letters, stickers, bookkeeping, old photos and other collections of Shanxi merchants in various historical development periods. story. Shanxi people have a long tradition of doing business. The Shanxi merchants who seized the opportunity to rise in the early Ming Dynasty were not afraid of hardships and started businesses in all directions. They can be seen everywhere in the deserts outside the Great Wall and in the water villages of the south of the Yangtze River. It is said that "where the sparrows fly, there are Shanxi merchants." The varieties of Shanxi merchants can be described as "" Up to silk, down to onion and garlic". Shanxi merchants' well-known names and products established Chinese commercial coordinates and enriched people's material life. It is an artistic treasure house of Chinese residential buildings and folk culture, and a three-dimensional picture scroll reflecting the social, economic and cultural aspects of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.