清代中期的汉口商人在经商之外的文化生活具有浓厚的士人化特征,他们热心交游,定期聚会,吟风咏物,乐善好施,成为传统基层社会中具有一定代表性的非官方导向力量。但是,相比于同时期的经世派士子,汉口商人的精神生活还较多局限于风花雪月,在内忧外患的时局下,他们缺乏对大众民生的关注与同情,缺乏应对时变的必要思想准备,至清朝后期,以盐商为代表的汉口商人大势已去,逐步走向衰落,“不能饮酒不能诗”的财主逐渐成为商人主流,一个真正“平民性”的商业都市——汉口逐渐成形。 In the middle period of the Qing Dynasty, Hankou merchants had a strong masculine cultural life outside of business. They enthusiastically exchanged ideas, met on a regular basis, chant the wind, and performed goodies. They became the unofficial leading force with a certain representation in the traditional grass-roots society. However, compared with the Shi-Zi scholars of the same period, the spiritual life of Hankou merchants is still confined to the romantic life. Under the current internal and external problems, they lack the concern and sympathy for the public and the people, and lack the necessary response Ideological preparation. Until the late Qing Dynasty, the merchants in Hankou, represented by salt traders, had gone to decline gradually. The wealthy man who could not drink alcohol could gradually become the mainstream of merchants and a truly commercial city of Hankou Gradually formed.