Jinshang has a pivotal position in the history of China's business culture, dominant in China's business community for more than five hundred years, the creation of economic culture is very large. Below, to be introduced through the Jinshang culture is about the development of the three stages, let's go together to understand to see what are the performance in these three major stages of development.

By analyzing the collected historical materials of Jin merchants in general, looking at the long history of 500 years of Jin merchants dominating the business world in China, can be roughly divided into the following three time periods:

The first time period:

Since the early Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty for more than 300 years, it is the age of the Pingyang Gang. The prominent representative of the Pingyang Gang in this period is the Linfen Kang family. Kang family is not only a big salt merchant, but also a big ticket merchant, a big grain merchant and a big landlord, whose business monopoly in North China, radiating the whole country.

According to the "Qing Barnyard Papers" records "Kang's Shanxi for the rich, since the Ming has been." China's economic book" said: "Kang's ......, where more than two hundred years, the prosperity of its family fortune, can be said to be extremely." Xu refers to the Yan compiled by the "Elephant Teeth Burning Record" records, the Qianlong Emperor said: "I thought the world's rich, no more than brine business; now heard of the hyper clan, it is like a small witch to see the big witch also!"

Ma Guohan "Bamboo Ruyi" records: "Shanrui hyper a, the family is very rich, warehouse Yu more than thousands of people to 'million' call, bullying the rich and arrogant, good for the crazy talk. At the time of the great drought in Jin Province, counties and counties prayed, people were in fear. The people of Jin province were in a great drought, and the counties were praying, and the people were scared.

The second period:

Since the mid-Qing Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty for more than a hundred years, is the "north of the South Bank", or Ping Qi Taijie gang and Ping Yang gang of the two major commercial power brigades competing and coexisting in the years.

As Hu Ping, president of the Chinese Association of Business History, said: "The north has a ticket, the south has a money changer, which heralded the entry of modern civilization in China. What about this thing, it is native, our ticket number, money bank also opened to foreign countries, these native things, have its historical credit, the first in China."

At that time, the Pingqi Taisuke Gang was mainly engaged in business in the Great Northwest, Northeast, Inner and Outer Mongolia, and Russia, while the Pingyang Gang was dominant in the Jianghuai, Suzhou and Hangzhou, the Central Plains, the Southwest, the Northwest, and the Beijing area.

The third period:

In the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China to the early period of the founding of the country before the public-private partnership, is the era of Pingyang Gang is still brilliant. Jinzhong ticket company in the late Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China has closed down, while many of the Jinnan money changers, merchants have been continued to the public-private partnership before.

Modern history says, "the number of Jin people in the capital of the capital of Beijing, the largest grain store, is Linfen hyper family grain store opened outside the gate of zhengyang; Beijing's oil and salt hotels, mostly for the people of the Xiangling operation; Beijing's cloth line is mostly operated by the people of Yicheng, the mouth of the fresh fish to the west of the cloth alley, all for the people of Yicheng. The cloth company in Beijing is mostly operated by Yicheng people.

The Linfen Zhao family's famous "Liubiju", created in the first year of the Zhengtong era of the Ming Dynasty (1436 AD), has a history of 570 years; Linfen and Fushan people in Beijing operated the "Wanquantang", The famous old brands of Linfen and Fushan people in Beijing, such as "Wanquantang", "Duyiqi", and "Lurentang", have also lasted for a long time.

Xiangfen Jiang Zantang in the front door outside the Xinglong Street opened the "Jingji paper shop", is Beijing's earliest distribution Pingyang hemp paper and Western paper stores, business links to overseas countries, the source of goods from the United States, North Korea, Sweden, the Philippines, etc., spread throughout the Shanghai, Xi'an, Zhangjiakou, Tianjin, major cities, and at one time to occupy half of the country's paper industry. The company once occupied half of the country's paper industry.