People often say that money is not omnipotent, but without money is impossible, especially in today's era of rapid economic development, money is based on the fundamentals, food, clothing, housing and transportation must have money support, that is, money.
This is a kind of currency. Money, also commonly known as the general equivalent, is the medium through which commodities are produced and returned, and modern society is money, while in ancient times it was gold.
China was one of the first countries in the world to use money, and in this development process has experienced the evolution from natural currency to artificial currency, shells, knife coins and gold.
The color of golden yellow has extremely strong ductility and malleability, and is also an elemental form of the chemical element gold.
In ancient times, "two" as a unit, due to the high value, many people joined the gold rush, but there is something known as "red gold", the value is far more than gold, do you know what it is?
The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in China, from the establishment of Nurhaci Jinqi a total of 296 years, there are prosperity and decline, the prosperous era has also left a strong mark in history, Kangqian prosperous is the representative era.
Kangxi ascended the throne at the age of eight and became pro-government at the age of fourteen, and was honored by later scholars as "the first emperor of the ages", and Yongzheng Qianlong also worked hard to govern, and during their reign, they vigorously developed the economy, the population also increased, reduced taxes and enslaved the people to recuperate, and pushed the Qing Dynasty to a high level.
The opposite period of decline was the period of Empress Dowager Cixi before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, who was the biological mother of the Concubine Tongzhi Emperor of the Xianfeng Emperor and the de facto ruler of the late Qing Dynasty.
As a royal nobleman, she has always been in a state of pampering, and after the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, she joined forces with Empress Dowager Ci'an and Prince Gong to launch a coup d'état against the chancellor and seize power, enjoying supreme treatment, and her funerary items were also valuable antiques.
In the Qing Palace Archives, the "Internal Affairs Office Booklet" records that the jewelry and jade objects buried in the coffin include "Zhengzhu, Dongzhu, Hongbi (Wang Mo), Green Jade, Coral Shouzi, Coral Carved Lihu, Longan Bodhi and other chaozhu beads, and the red coral, such as yellow gemstones, diamonds, white diamonds, and large pearls, is also one of them, and it is enough to prove its preciousness as a Cixi funeral product.
In the "Records of Jianzhou", it is recorded that "chief Nu (Nurhaci) held a rosary bead and counted", and the beads of the Qianlong Emperor and Kangxi were also made of red coral, and the two emperors loved it.
The Qing Dynasty attached great importance to the inheritance of Buddhism, and the Qing court clearly stipulated: "When the emperor sacrifices to the sun, he must hang coral beads, and the queen concubine collar ornaments, court beads and crowns must not lack corals." In the Qing Jiu pin official system, the size of the rank is distinguished by the top bead on the hat, and the top bead of the second pin official is the red coral..."
Red coral has become a symbol of status in ancient times, after all, the pearl is closely related to imperial power, the degree of preciousness can be imagined, and the status of red coral is more transcendent in the period of gold.
Red corals are actually group animals, with dendritic complex bones and bright colors, which is one of the reasons why they are loved. Why is it so valuable? The first time it was ancient.
It is one of the oldest marine organisms on Earth, appeared in the Cambrian Period about half a billion years ago, and is a paleontology of the same generation as trilobites, which has not been extinct for thousands of years to show that it has an advantage.
However, it has extremely high requirements for water quality and temperature, and the growth rate is extremely slow, almost 20 years before it grows an inch, so it is worth a lot.
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