《红楼梦》中有一个小小的商人群,他们中既有集财、权、势于一体的皇商,也有精明强干、有钱财无权势的个体商人,也有处于社会底层的小商贾。这正是我国明清时期不同层次的商人典型。从这些商人形象的塑造上,不仅可以了解到中国明清社会资本主义萌芽时期 There is a small group of businessmen in “Dream of Red Mansions”, among them are the royal merchants who have the wealth, the power and the potential, the individual businessmen who are astute and capable, the wealthy and the powerless, and the small merchants who are at the bottom of society. This is the typical businessman of different levels in Ming and Qing Dynasties. From the shaping of the image of these businessmen, we can not only understand the budding period of social capitalism in China in the Ming and Qing dynasties