The Ten Great Merchant Guilds () were the variously influential groups of merchants and businessmen in Chinese history. They were:
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Shanxi Merchants (晉商) - also known as Jin merchants
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Huizhou
Huizhou ( zh, c= ) is a city in east-central Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong. Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Hey ...
Merchants - based in modern
Huangshan, Anhui
* Longyou Merchants (龍游商幫) - based in modern western Zhejiang province
* Ningbo Merchants (寧波商幫)
* Dongting Merchants 洞庭商幫 - based in the Dongting region of modern Suzhou
* Jiangxi Merchants (江西商幫) - also known as the Jiangyou Merchants (江右商幫)
* Guangdong Merchants
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...
Merchants
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Shandong
Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...
Merchants
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Fujian
Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...
(Min) Merchants
See also
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Hong (business)
A hong () was a type of Chinese merchant establishment and its associated type of building. Hongs arose in Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) as intermediaries between Western and Chinese merchants during the 18th and 19th centuries under t ...
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Cohong
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Jiao (commercial guild)
References
Guilds in China
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