Zhou Ying
Zhou Ying
Zhou Ying was born in Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province. It is said that she was gifted and intelligent. She entered the Wu family, a big family in Wubao, jingyang'an, and married Wu pin, the young master of the Wu family. Later, her husband Wu pin and her father-in-law both died for some reason. The Wu family gradually declined. Through ups and downs, she established a "business empire" of the Wu family in Shaanxi Province and became the only successful businesswoman who made her business as rich as possible at that time.
Zhou Ying never remarried. All her life, she played games in the business world, leaving many legendary stories. Her charitable deeds and farsighted business philosophy of helping the people are still widely spread by the local people.
be in business
Zhou Ying entered the Wu family, a big family in Wubao of jingyang'an, and married Wu pin, the young master of the Wu family. Later, her husband Wu pin and her father-in-law died for some reason, and the Wu family gradually declined. Zhou Ying resolutely decided to replace the dead Wu family father and son to revive the east courtyard of Wu family. The huge family business fell on her shoulders.
Zhou Ying is resourceful and resourceful. With her efforts, wujiadongyuan started the business of salt merchants all over the country, and set up seven general stores throughout the country. Not only that, Zhou Ying also expanded her business to silk, cotton, cotton, medicinal materials, tea and so on, covering a very wide range.
On the integration of resources, she signed contracts with cotton farmers in advance, and ordered raw silk in advance in southern mulberry garden, so as to ensure sufficient supply and stable purchase price; on the system reform, Zhou Ying let her shopkeeper staff participate in the equity, expanded the funds, and implemented "Yang Feng Yin Feng", and the family members of the staff can also work in the Wu family.
A successful businessman wants to be invincible in his own business. The reputation determines the success or failure. Zhou Ying's lifelong investment in credibility helped her build a business empire.
Dayi
In 1900, when Cixi took refuge in Xi'an, Zhou Ying provided the Empress Dowager with 100000 taels of silver. Cixi personally inscribed a plaque of "protecting the country's wife" and took her as her adopted daughter. From then on, the mother and daughter matched each other. For a woman from an ordinary family, this kind of honor is unique. After the Treaty of Xin Chou was signed, she paid silver to the Empress Dowager and went to the national calamity together. Cixi felt for her righteous deeds and named her "Lady Yipin Gaoming".
She not only gave generously at the critical moment of the country, but also gave generously to the countryside. Because of this, she won unparalleled popularity and reputation in society, business and the common people.
She became a well-known "businesswoman" in Guanzhong area because of the righteousness of water conservancy, education, Confucian temple and military salary. As a result of war and natural disasters, a flood of hungry people emerged in Guanzhong area. Zhou Ying decided to open a warehouse to release grain and set up a porridge factory to relieve the victims. She set up a porridge factory in the disaster stricken area of Guanzhong, and let Jingyang, Chunhua, Sanyuan, Pucheng, Fuping and other rice stores open warehouses to release grain, and distributed the grain to the poor families around. When compiling county annals, Jingyang and Sanyuan counties recorded her good deeds in history.
Film adaptation
In September 2016, the large-scale TV drama "the full moon and flowers that year" (also known as "Dayi Qinshang") based on Zhou Ying was officially filmed. The drama takes the historical facts of the Wu family in anwubao, Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province as the background, and tells the story of the ups and Downs inspirational legendary life of Zhou Ying, the richest woman in Shaanxi Province, who was born in the late Qing Dynasty. The heroine Zhou Ying is played by Sun Li. The play was jointly produced by Huashi Entertainment Investment Group Co., Ltd., Xi'an Qujiang film and Television Co., Ltd., Shaanxi baifanyi Co., Ltd. and other companies. It was directed by Ding Hei, starred by Sun Li and Chen Xiao, and was officially broadcast in 2017 with Zhao Yi as the chief producer.
Chinese PinYin : Zhou Ying
Zhou Ying
