北宋城市、鎮市、草市與集市的商業活動

The Commercial Activity of the City Market, Town Market, Country Market and Periodic Market in Northern Sung Dynasty

北宋商品經濟的發達，表現在城市、鎮市、草市與集市等不同形貌的商業活動上。商業繁榮的城市，如都城汴京、西南地區重要大城成都府、東南第一大州杭州與浙西重要商業城市蘇州，以及西南第二大城興元府、運河沿岸的揚州、壽州與沿江的江寧府、江陵府、鄂州等，皆可由各城市數額不等的商稅收入，觀察其不同程度的貿易盛況。

The prosperity of the commodity economics at The Northern Sung Dynasty was expressed in different types of commercial activities in the city market, town market, country market and periodic market, etc. A city that has prosperous business such as capital Bianjing, the important big city at southwest China-- Chengdu Prefecture, the biggest city at southeast China-- Hangzhou, the important business city at west Zhejiang-- Suzhou, and the second big city at southwest-- Xingyuan Prefecture, the city along the Grand Canal of China-- Yangzhou and Shouzhou, as well as the city along the Yangtze River-- Jiangning Prefecture, Jinglin Prefecture and Ehzhou, etc., could have been observed different degrees of vigorous trading from different amount of business tax incomes levied from those cities.