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First, let's talk about how much silver is worth now in ancient times.
This kind of scene often appears in some costume TV series. Some people bought two buns and a bowl of soup at a roadside stall, starting with a few silver coins at the time of checkout.
Some young masters of big families went to the casino to play games and lost more than a thousand taels of silver at a time.
Because this kind of shot is always repeated, many people in ancient times misunderstood the value of one or two silver coins. In ancient times, one or two pieces of silver are now only equivalent to dozens of dollars, or even a few dollars.
But with directors and screenwriters with historical knowledge, these absurd storylines would never have emerged.
Because according to historical records.
During the Wanli period, the revenue of the national treasury was only more than two million taels. Isn't it the face of the state treasury revenue that ordinary people spend a few silver on an ordinary meal?
So in ancient times, how many renminbi was equivalent to one or two silver coins?
To find out the true value of one or two pieces of silver, we need to explore this question at different historical stages.
Since the monetary value of silver differs in different dynasties, in this case, it is necessary to convert the value of silver and money according to the method of currency equivalent reference.
For China, which has been a big agricultural country since ancient times, rice has been a necessity for thousands of years.
Then, we use rice as a reference to understand the price of silver in several representative eras before the Tang and Song dynasties.
Silver is not a currency in general circulation, so it doesn't make much sense to calculate the value of silver before then.
According to historical records, during the Tang Zhenguan period, silver began to gradually enter the stage of currency circulation.
At that time, one or two pieces of silver could buy two hundred barrels of rice. Since ten barrels of rice is a carton, it used to be equal to 59 kilograms now, which means that one or two pieces of silver can buy 1180 kilograms of rice now. The average price of social rice is basically maintained at about 1.75 yuan per catty. From this calculation, one or two pieces of silver in the early Tang Dynasty are equivalent to 4130 yuan.
After the Tang Dynasty, let's talk about the Song Dynasty. According to Song Shishi.
No more than six or seven hundred eggs, 30 yuan a barrel indicates that the price of rice in the Song Dynasty on an island is about 600 to 300 meters, so a few silver dollars can buy four to eight eggs. cooked rice.
Since a bag of rice weighed about 66 kilograms in the Song Dynasty, the strength to buy one or two pieces of silver was about 924 to 1848.
I have seen Jin Yong's biography of the Archery Hero before. Remember that Huang Rong invited Guo Jing to dinner, and the cashier spent more than 19 taels. Compared to the actual purchasing power of silver in the Song Dynasty.
Nineteen two meals, in the Song Dynasty was impossible. In the Ming Dynasty, the value of one or two silver coins began to decrease significantly.
According to the Ming Dynasty's Wanli Calendar, at that time, one or two pieces of silver could buy two bags of rice, and one bag of rice weighed about 94.4 kilograms. in other words.
One silver can buy 18.8 kg of rice. The average price of rice in China is still 1.75 yuan, which means that the purchasing power of one or two silver in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to one or two silver in the ming Dynasty.
668 yuan, the nutritional value of the Qing Dynasty is lower than that of the Ming Dynasty. Since the late Qing Dynasty, a large number of overseas voices have poured into China.
As a result, the value of silver in China was greatly depreciated, and the purchasing power of silver was only one-third that of the Ming Dynasty.
From this, it can be concluded that the value of silver in the late Qing Dynasty is now only equivalent to 200 yuan. Let's look at the salaries of the Song Dynasty. Take the Northern Song Dynasty Bao Zheng as an example.
Bao Gong was a direct descendant of Longtuge during his tenure in Kaifeng Province, and the full-time Kaifeng Province is believed to have been promulgated during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song.
Well, as a direct bachelor of Longtuge, Bao Zheng's annual monetary income is 1656 guan, 10 horses, and 34 horses.
Two Piro and one hundred and twenty grain incomes. In summary, the nutritional value of each period is completely different, and it needs to be judged according to the actual situation.