Judging from the town dialect since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people who set up shops and workshops in rich households' houses are regarded as shopkeepers, and farmers who set up stalls and sell on the ground in the city are called hawkers.

Mao Zedong? Social Class Analysis of China: "Vendors, whether selling on their shoulders or selling along the street, are short of profit and food."

Extended data

Examples of selling words are as follows:

Selling cute?

Merchants buy goods and then sell them for profit: ~ dried and fresh fruits. Under the banner of dialectics ~ the philosophy of agnosticism.

Traffickers [fàn zi]?

People who sell things (mostly derogatory): animals ~. War.

Pirate recording?

Trafficking in smuggled goods: combating smuggling and smuggling activities.

Dealer?

It means selling goods and opening a shop.

Shoulder vendor [jiān fàn]?

Shoulder vendor

General distributor?

Mail order is mostly used in ACG field, such as selling local chronicles and surrounding items.