Lv Nan's frequent writings on merchants,under the background of the rapid development of the commercial economy in the Ming society,reflect his personal mentality of writing for active social engagement.By examining Lv Nan's writings on merchants,people can sort out the hierarchical social network of gentry-merchants and the rich life world of merchants.Business life,family life,leisure life and political life are all important contents of Lv Nan's writ-ings on merchants,among which the description of family life is particularly prominent,showing that Lv Nan has some emphasis on shaping the image of merchants.Lv Nan's writings on merchants are rich in social,historical and literary values.As a representative of Neo-Confucianism scholars in the middle Ming Dynasty,Lv Nan's view of mer-chants has a nature of typical conservatism,but it is not difficult to see its new qualitative content in the conservatism.
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