Shopping is called shopping because the five directions of east, west, south, north and middle represent gold, wood, water, fire and earth respectively. All along, the utensils we use are made of metal or wood, so we have to be careful when buying things.
As you can see, oriental tweed represents metal and western tweed represents wood. Baskets can only contain metal, gold and wood, so they are called things. And the basket can't be called water, it will leak, and the basket will be burned when it meets fire. The south represents water and the north represents fire, so it can't be called north and south.
Until later, things became synonymous with all things. Because there is also an interesting thing, that is, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong asked Ji Xiaolan at that time why things should be weighed in baskets instead of north and south. The above explanation is also the answer given by Ji Xiaolan. I don't know if this answer is right at present, but this answer is really reasonable.
The origin of shopping comes from the Tang Dynasty, when the World Trade Organization developed. Xi Shi was the most important international market and fashion entertainment center in the world at that time. That's when the word "shopping" originated, when the products were rich and prosperous.
In layman's terms, it is also a commodity exchanged for money.