In ancient times, one or two pieces of silver were equal to how many yuan, and now many people actually have no concept. Especially in the extreme of contemporary TV dramas, there are two steamed buns and a bowl of soup 5 two silver, a young grandmother gambling and losing ten million silver and so on. At the same time, it also shows the ignorance and irresponsibility of the Creators in China.
The following small series takes you to understand, how much is one or two pieces of silver equal to in ancient times?
The monetary value of silver and silver in different dynasties is different, and the amount of one or two silver equals to different dynasties is also different. Ancient Chinese silver is scarce, and if you look at some ancient books, you can find that the monetary value of one or two silver is quite high. One or two pieces of silver are equal to more than twelve hundred to three thousand pieces of money. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, twenty yuan could buy a pound of pork, and an acre of good land only needed seven to eight silver or twelve or three silver dollars. A few silver, a few dozen silver is a big thing, and a hundred and two silver is today's big money, which can buy more than a dozen acres of good land.
By consulting the information, we can roughly know the data of how much one or two pieces of silver are equal to each generation of the following dynasties:
One or two pieces of silver in the middle and late Qing Dynasty were worth about 150-220 yuan;
Valued at RMB 600-800 in the middle of the Ming Dynasty;
Valued at 600-1 300 yuan (or 1000-1 800 yuan) in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty;
It was worth 2,000-4,000 yuan during the Tang Dynasty.
Here's some more ancient data to raise awareness:
Tang Dynasty Nine Pin Officials Monthly Salary 5 Stone Rice = Tang Dynasty, the monthly salary of junior civil servants was 1000 yuan;
Qing Dynasty Liupin officials annual salary of 45 two silver = Qing Dynasty bureau-level cadres, annual salary of 9,000 yuan;
Three years of Qing Prefect, 100,000 snowflake silver = those who are officials, which family does not have tens of millions?
In the early years of Qianlong, it cost 13,122 silver to donate a Daotai = 2.7 million yuan to buy a department-level cadre and clearly marked the price.
Some people have tried to calculate the value of silver in rice, although the conversion numbers are not necessarily accurate, but the conversion method is worth referencing.
For example, one or two silver in the Ming Dynasty can buy two stones of rice of general quality, if one stone is about 94.4 kilograms at that time, one or two silver can buy 188.8 kilograms of rice, which is 377.6 kilograms. Now the rice eaten by ordinary families in China is between 1.5 yuan and 2 yuan per kilogram, calculated at the median price of 1.75 yuan, which can be calculated that one or two silver in the Ming Dynasty is equal to 660.8 yuan.
Another example is that during the Tang Taizong Zhenguan years, a bucket of rice only sold for 5 yuan, usually one or two silver folded into 1000 copper coins (also known as consistent), you can buy 200 buckets of rice, 10 buckets for a stone, that is, 20 stones, a stone in the Tang Dynasty is about 59 kilograms, today's general rice price of 1.75 yuan a pound calculation, one or two silver equivalent to 4130 yuan of purchasing power.
During the first year of Tang Xuanzong's new year, the price of rice rose to 10 yuan and one bucket, which was also one or two pieces of silver equal to 2065 yuan; According to the "Song Shi Food Goods Chronicle" mentioned that "before Xi and Feng, the rice stone was only 6700" and the "Song Shi Guan Zhi" "each bucket (rice) folded thirty yuan", let's calculate with 2,000 copper coins and silver one or two, the price of rice in the Taiping period was 1 stone 600-300 yuan. 1 two silver can basically buy 4-8 stones of rice, based on Song Shi 66 kilograms, 1 two silver equivalent to nearly 924-1848 yuan.