How did social status of merchants reflect chinese ideas about society

According to the traditional Confucian view, society is made up of four classes: government officials, farmers, artisans and merchants.

 This scheme exalts public officials as shepherds of the flock; it esteems farmers as the economic basis for the whole of society; and it denigrates artisans and merchants as not being socially necessary - indeed it sees merchants in particular as being parasitic on the rest of society, making themselves rich by making others poor.

china is shifting toward specialization in industry and services and away from agriculture.

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