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This book focuses on the study of "Shangshu" in the Song Dynasty, using the method of contextual reconstruction and text analysis, in the form of a special topic, by examining the ideal picture and action direction based on current political judgments in the interpretation of classics, and reveals the influence of "Shangshu" study on the reform, resurgence, and disasters in the two Song Dynasties. The response and contribution of major political thoughts and practical themes such as theory and Neo-Confucianism are aimed at historically understanding the causes and significance of classical interpretation, enriching the understanding of traditional Chinese classics, and trying to explore the ideological logic behind political behavior from the perspective of "Shangshu" study.

This book closely follows "business roads", "merchants' gangs" and "commodities", and uses roads, inns, ancestral halls, pot houses, guild halls and other Shaanxi-Sichuan-Tibetan trade relics to listen to the different understandings of the Shaanxi-Sichuan-Tibetan trade from the government, academia and the public. Combined with literature, it examines the tea, salt, cloth, medicinal materials, tobacco, wine, and leather goods on the Shaanxi-Sichuan-Tibetan trade road. The actual business conditions of the , timber, and pawn industries reveal the profound meaning and influence of Shaanxi merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties and their southwest trade, explain their major inspiration and experience for the joint development of contemporary southwest and northwest economies, give contemporary Shaanxi merchants new development ideas, and assist the implementation of the national "One Belt and One Road" and the high-quality economic development of Shaanxi Province.