In various costume dramas, we can see that the coins used by people in different dynastic backgrounds and different periods are different, but it is common to see that many dynasties will have people using silver, and the people who use them may be rich people, or they may be jianghu heroes. Silver is a very important trading currency in ancient times, many dynasties are used, indicating that the amount of silver will be a lot, but unconsciously, these white flowers of silver seem to gradually disappear, where did they go?
First of all, we need to know that film and television dramas generally have exaggerated or untrue situations. When the rich and noble families seen in the film and television drama go to buy things, they take out a silver dollar treasure when they pay the bill, but in fact, if the ancients used silver, they generally used broken silver, and when they broke silver, there were a lot of fine chips that fell down, and over time a lot of silver disappeared. In addition, silver is used as funerary goods, many ancient tombs have a lot of silver, some of the silver in the tomb is still buried deep underground, even experts can not find.
Regarding modern China, we know that there have been many wars, and the Qing government at that time not only lost many wars, but also was asked by the great powers to pay war reparations. Whether it was the Opium War, the Sino-Japanese War, or the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, the Qing government became the defeated side. In the unequal treaties signed after the war, more than 420 million taels of silver were lost in these three wars alone, and the great powers smuggled opium, which led to the loss of a large amount of silver. In addition, in addition to the Qing Dynasty, the previous Song Dynasty also lost a lot.
After the demise of the Qing government, the warlords began to fight, and the warlords wantonly plundered the people's fat and people's anointing, and received a large amount of silver into their own pockets, leaving the people living in poverty. Some people will be misled by the scenes and various plots in the Republic of China drama, thinking that the Republic of China is very romantic, but in fact, this history is very dark. In addition to the Beiyang warlords, Lao Jiang also vigorously plundered the people's silver, and later transported these silver and other jewelry and cultural relics by plane.
In addition to the above reasons, there is also the use of silver in china's later development. At that time, just after the founding of New China, after so many years of war, not only was it in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt, but it was also poor and white, but the country was in urgent need of development and construction, so it could only take over private silver mines. Silver is used in many industries now, and in these cases, silver is gradually reduced, and it is difficult for people to see silver in life.