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Four occupations

The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the late Zhou dynasty and is considered a central part of the fengjian…

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Shì (士)

Nóng (农/農)

Gōng (工)

Shāng (商)

Outside China

Unclassified occupations

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Four occupations

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related to background · 19
Four occupations → AD, Ban, Ban Gu, BC, Book, China, Despite, Eastern-Han, From, Guliang Zhuan, Han, However, The Han-era, The Rites, The Shuo Yuan, Warring States, Warring States-era Xunzi, Western Zhou, Zhou
related to Slaves · 17
Four occupations → Chinese, Han, Hongwu, Illegal, In, It, Ming, Qing, Six, Slavery, Song, Sue Gronewold, Tang, The Xin, These, Wang Mang, Yongzheng
related to Shāng (商) · 15
Four occupations → Archaeological, Autumn, China Duke Huan, Emperor Shun, Guan Zhong, He, Hegemon, Imperial China, In, In Ancient, In Imperial China, Prime Minister, Qi, Spring, The
related to Unclassified occupations · 10
Four occupations → Buddhist, Emperor Zhenzong, Four, Han, People, Qin, Such, The Song, There, Wang Yucheng

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chinese merchants dynasty social class government china four shi system society also imperial occupations bc scholars artisans scholar-officials emperor farmers

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entertainersinstance ofoccupations0.80text
prostitutes.The four occupations were not a hereditary systeminstance ofoccupations0.80text
Shen Kuoinstance ofScholars0.80text
the Lanfang Republicinstance ofthe Kongsi republics0.80text
which bitterly resisted Dutch colonisation in the Kongsi Warsinstance ofthe Kongsi republics0.80text
Zhang Yingyu's The Book of Swindlesinstance ofIn popular culture texts0.80text
in the case of Zhang Jiaoinstance ofseeking to prevent them from amassing too much power and influence0.80text
who led a Taoist sect into open rebellion against the Han government's authority.Fortune-tellers such as geomancersinstance ofseeking to prevent them from amassing too much power and influence0.80text
astrologers were not highly regarded.Buddhist monkhood grew immensely popular from the fourth centuryinstance ofseeking to prevent them from amassing too much power and influence0.80text
where the monastic life's exemption from tax proved alluring to poor farmersinstance ofseeking to prevent them from amassing too much power and influence0.80text
the Baojiainstance ofPeasants were encouraged to join militias0.80text
Zhao Feiyan achieved higher status by becoming concubinesinstance ofalthough some0.80text

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