In primitive society, people did not have a concept of the economy, and at that time there was no such thing as buying and selling, and at that time, most of the things that families wanted to exchange for what they needed were barter, which was extremely inconvenient at that time.
With the orderly progress of social order, I don't know when people no longer advocate this way, but use the way of currency trading, according to the Shang Dynasty sites now found, people have found sea shells and other things in it, which can be inferred that in the Shang Dynasty and even the Xia Dynasty period people have begun to use money to trade.
However, at that time, due to the situation of the feudal system, there was no unified standard for each other's currencies, until Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms and made Qin and Half as the national common currency, and the history of China's monetary development entered the right track.
In 1910 AD, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the last feudal society in China, Chinese history entered the modern era, and the Beiyang government at that time also abolished the previous unit of measurement: silver two, but adopted a new monetary unit: the ocean, of course, because this ocean has the head of Yuan Shikai, so it can be called Yuan Datou at that time.
At that time, silver dollars had always been the mainstream trading method, and it was not until after the founding of New China that Yuan Datou finally withdrew from the historical stage, and the renminbi appeared on the historical stage.
Now we often see how many salaries the great teachers in the Republic of China period had, so we may wish to convert the ocean in the Republic of China period to how much money is now equivalent?
What was the salary during the Republic of China period?
Now some of us often complain that the salary is not enough to spend, indeed, now all aspects of the conditions are good, people's quality of life has begun to want to be higher, so they feel that this is not enough to spend that is not enough to spend, but if you really have to cope with daily expenses, it is enough to eat and wear warmth, and for ordinary people, three or four thousand pieces is enough, of course, this only includes eating and wearing water and electricity.
In the Republic of China era, due to the long years of war, people will not ask for too much, only to be able to eat and wear warm every day is enough, so take these two points to compare.
For example, we often say that Mr. Lu Xun, when he was teaching, his monthly salary was about 60 yuan, and then with the increase of the number of years to 350 yuan ocean, and later with this money to buy a set of courtyard in Beijing, it can be seen from this that Mr. Lu Xun definitely belonged to the high-income group at that time.
Ordinary people don't have such high wages, and in 1917 students at St. John's University came to the conclusion that:
"Workers support a family of five for 15 yuan a month"; "Common male workers seek 10 yuan, and the same is true for women's silk factories every month." ”
From this, it can be seen that at that time, the monthly expenditure was about 15 oceans, and the per capita needed three oceans, and Chen Liuzi also made this clear when he first arrived in Shanghai in "The Great Dyeing Workshop", for example, When Chen Liuzi and the employees of the Lin family chatted, they mentioned the average status quo of society at that time:
The average worker is about 1 to 1 and a half blocks, and the best of the five is between 4 and a half and 6 oceans.
At that time, Shanghai was the largest city in the Far East, and the current situation of ordinary workers was like this, which showed the difficulties of people's livelihood at that time.
How much is an ocean in the Republic of China?
Now people often say that Mr. Lu Xun was a high-paid person with an annual salary of more than one million yuan, and indeed in the era when there were only two or three oceans in general at that time, 350 oceans a month like Mr. Lu Xun could indeed be called an annual salary of one million, and at that time, people like Mr. Lu Xun who could earn dozens of oceans a month were absolutely very good.
So how much was a piece of ocean in the Republic of China period? In fact, many people now convert this way in two ways, one is according to the price of gold, the other is according to the price, but these two are not very appropriate, because the Republic of China period is in the time of the world war, at that time there will be inflation at every turn, because the world is in the middle of the war, so it has caused turmoil.
Take gold, for example, in 1914, the outbreak of World War I, because China was not involved, at that time the country was still too peaceful, so the ratio of gold and the ocean was 1:15, but after the end of the First World War, the world returned to Taiping, so the gold-silver ratio became 1:40.
Of course, our side temporarily abandons the consideration of inflation, according to the price of the gold-silver ratio in the silver dollar, at that time there were 24 grams of pure silver in a silver dollar, and the price of the gold-silver ratio was usually around 20 to 30, that is to say, 1 ocean is about equal to 1 gram of gold, according to the current value, a silver dollar is about equivalent to today's 350 yuan.
And take the price to calculate, this conversion ratio is different, at that time in addition to the popular ocean, but also circulated copper plates, because the ocean circulation at that time was very small, so the value is extremely high, so people's daily trading is still based on copper plates.
For example, in "The Little Girl Who Sold newspapers", it is sung:
"Seven copper plates sell two newspapers."
And the copper plate and the ocean conversion ratio is the same as in ancient times, 1 ocean is equivalent to 1000 copper plates, and at that time two copper plates can buy 1 bun, and now 1 yuan on the market can also buy 1 bun, so according to this conversion, 2 copper plates are about equal to 1 yuan, so 1000 copper plates are about equal to 500 pieces, that is to say, a piece of ocean at that time is similar to the current 500 yuan.
Therefore, if we sum up the above discussion, the value of an ocean at that time was equivalent to about 350 yuan to 500 yuan according to today's renminbi, but because of the frequent wars at that time and the extremely unstable price, there were sometimes exceptions, and the price of 1 silver dollar during the 14-year War of Resistance was now equivalent to nearly 800 yuan.
Therefore, it is no wonder that Mr. Lu Xun was an annual salary of one million at that time, and it is indeed a high-salary person with an annual salary of more than one million according to the proportion.
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