China has more than 5,000 years of cultural history, as we all know, Qin Shi Huang founded the Qin Dynasty to unify the world, the text and currency are unified, all began to use silver as a circulating currency, which can be seen in many ancient TV series, to buy something, will give each other silver, so it can be known that in ancient times, the number of silver is very much, but now you will find that it seems that it is rare to see silver, where did these silver go?
In ancient times, silver is not only as currency, there are other aspects of the use, ancient times also have a market, you can see when shopping, many vendors will sell jewelry, these jewelry are made of silver, after all, it is made of silver, there is room for appreciation, and silver disinfection is also convenient, the people are very fond of this, which is also shown in many TV series, in the palace want to test whether there is anyone poisoned, the woman will pull off the hairpin on her head and put it in the bowl to test it, If it goes black, it means toxic, which is enough to prove that the previous videos are all silver.
We always see so much silver in many TV series, rich people's silver is a box of silver, especially when the man goes to the woman's home to propose relatives, it is all carried by the box, but we all know that the ancient technology is backward, in the mining of silver, it is naturally difficult to mine silver, and casting silver also requires a little effort, these reasons add up to enough to prove that in ancient times silver is not widely spread in our imagination.
Most of the common people use copper coins, the status of silver in ancient times and gold is a comparison, are rich and noble people can have, is very precious, so silver in the folk is not much, then natural to modern times, handed down even less, because the ancients after the death of a habit, is like to put the family valuables into the tomb together with the burial, the richer people will do this, especially the emperor buried, but also countless real money and silver, so most of the silver to the underground.
So in fact, we are all deceived by tv dramas, the ancient common people's annual income is only three or two silver, so naturally will not use silver to consume, if you go to the streets and alleys with silver to buy things, the people are afraid of finding money can not be found, how can silver be used as the real circulating currency? And we all know that in ancient times, China was a big country known to the whole world, and it also accumulated a lot of wealth, and it did not decline until the Qing Dynasty.
Because the Western powers carried out the industrial revolution, and China's Qing Dynasty closed the country, so it was bullied by the powers, and finally signed a lot of unequal treaties, when the compensation family lost a lot of silver, which also led to the loss of a small amount of silver to foreign countries, then China's remaining silver is even less, just after the Qing Dynasty, because of some changes in currency circulation, so the silver has been changed back to silver dollars.
And now basically you can't see silver in the market, unless it's some crafts or something, what do you think about it?