试析历史地理环境中福建海商的兴衰

在特殊的历史地理环境中，植根于中国传统农业社会的福建商业经济一直不断加强着与海内外的联系。宋元以后随着人口和经济的繁荣，福建的对外贸易更是发展迅猛，随之出现了大量的海商乃至海商集团，成为海洋商业文化发展的重要标志。近代以后，由于国内外政治经济条件的变化，福建海商逐渐步入衰弱，但其海洋人文影响却至今犹存。

ON THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SEA MERCHANTS OF FUJIAN IN THE HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENTS

Due to the special historical and geographical environments, the trade in Fujian, stemming from the traditional agriculture economy of China, had been kept in close contact with oversea. After the dynasty of Song and Yuan, the development of foreign trade was more swift and violent, and arose a lot, even the groups of sea merchants, becoming the important mark of the flourishing of the sea business culture. Since the modern times, the sea merchants of Fujian were on the wane because the home and abroad environments changing, but their influences have been living.