Who is Wang Hai, the ancestor of business?He was the seventh monarch of the Shang State during the Xia Dynasty, the sixth grandson of Yan Bo, and it is said that he was the ancestor of the surname Wang. Wang Hai led his people to serve cattle and raise horses, develop production, use horses and oxen to pull carts, and carry goods to other tribes to exchange goods, so as to meet the various living needs of the people.
Under the leadership of Wang Hai, the people lived in abundance, and the tribe quickly became strong. It has created a precedent for commerce, and since then, people have called the Shang tribe people engaged in this kind of activity "merchants", and the profession they are engaged in is called "business", which has been used to this day. Therefore, later generations are called "the ancestors of Chinese businessmen".
When we come to the room, we can see two very distinctive places:
Wanshang Plaza", the square is paved with natural red sandstone, more than 20,000 pieces of red sandstone are engraved with oracle bone inscription, Zhong Dingwen, big seal, small seal, official script, regular script, line script, cursive script and other famous writers to write the word "Shang" up to 19,770;
"Rich Merchant Avenue", paved with various coins of various dynasties carved from bluestone, from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the pattern composed of thousands of years of coins is a total of 19 groups, and its coins are more than 260 kinds, more than 4,600 pieces, which can be called a general history of Chinese coins.
This year is the first year of the Nine Purple Fire Universiade, and friends who do business can come here to worship the fire god Yan Bo and see the ancestor of business, Wang Hai!