Ten Great Merchant Guilds
The Ten Great Merchant Guilds were the variously influential groups of merchants and businessmen in Chinese history. They were:
- Shanxi Merchants - also known as Jin merchants
- Huizhou Merchants - based in modern Huangshan, Anhui
- Longyou Merchants - based in modern western Zhejiang province
- Ningbo Merchants
- Dongting Merchants 洞庭商幫 - based in the Dongting region of modern Suzhou
- Jiangxi Merchants - also known as the Jiangyou Merchants
- Guangdong Merchants
- Shaanxi Merchants
- Shandong Merchants
- Fujian Merchants