Today we talk about the ancient people spend money, when it comes to spending money, the first thing we think of is silver, we must have found this kind of white flower silver in various TV series, what fifty two two 50 two 100 two, Chinese a large number of use of silver is after the late Ming Dynasty, Columbus did not discover the New World, there is not so much silver in this world, Chinese mainly spent or copper money, today we will say that silver two in the Ming and Qing dynasties, silver in ancient China, silver with two to calculate, one or two equals 10 money, Previously equal to stone powder.
According to the weight of a piece of silver, in ancient China, especially in the Qing Dynasty silver divided into 4 categories, we will talk about these 4 types of silver today, the first is called Yuanbao, also called Baoyin and Dading, its general weight is 50 two, there are also 120, but very rare, because its appearance is more like a horseshoe, so everyone also calls him horseshoe silver.
The second is also called Xiao Yuanbao, commonly known as Zhong Ding, which is almost the middle Ding is generally 10 two, there are also 20 two shapes, but also in the horseshoe shape and yuanbao shape.
The third is called engraving, commonly known as Xiaoding, generally one or two to 5 two weight, the shape is also based on the yuan treasure, if it is one or two silver is not necessarily what kind, almost is the engraving, but is done by modern people, almost restraint is like this, most of the one or two to 2 two engravings, there is no fixed shape.
The fourth is called scattered silver two, generally also called floating bamboo, low bamboo melon seeds, these silver two are basically one or two and one or two below the shape of what looks like, anyway are some broken silver, the Qing Dynasty people's wallet is also called a purse, in the Qing Dynasty people's wallet is generally not engraved is scattered silver two, how big the wallet can put a big fixed that thing, but 50 two you go out shopping, take such a heavy face, you are not convenient for us today a lot of TV series, this gang of writers and directors must be brains into the water, These TV series have such a plot, a few arrogant people can't move in a restaurant to give small twenty or fifty two silver, what do you eat? Give 50 two.
In the early Qing Dynasty, 50 two can buy a house, I am talking about the house, not the compound house, a local tycoon from the sleeve to take out a 50 two large mirror to the small two, this plot makes me cry and laugh, let's not say that this meal is not worth that money, your clothes sleeves are really strong, what material is made, what thread sewn, 50 two is equivalent to today's small 4 pounds. In the Qing Dynasty one or two was about 37.2 grams of 50 two literati. Big brother you can go down for several years to say that it is very inconvenient for the Qing Dynasty to use silver.
The first is weighing and the second is decomposition. You have to find money for others, there are few local tycoons to give the small twenty or fifty wenyin small two do not have to find, such a person you may not be able to see one in your lifetime, if you really see it, it is not this big brother who is not good, you have accumulated great virtue in your previous life, so you use silver to build a family in the search for money to weigh, and then you have to return the remaining silver to this guest officer, so the silver has to be decomposed.
This place to decompose silver is the money bank, and the silver of the Qing Dynasty is very complicated, there was no pure silver at that time, so the silver was a little bit lost, this is called the name, the name is not uniform.
In the Qing Dynasty, the common silver was divided into Guangping two, Kuping two, Caoyun two, and customs two Kuping, Liang is stipulated by the state, we always heard about tattooed silver, what is tattooed silver? The standard proposed by the official this time is equivalent to today's you say thousand foot gold, 925 silver, similar to this meaning, silver also has different standards, there are 24 guarantees, 25 guarantees, 26 guarantees and two seven treasures. The smelting technology of that year was not high, so the color of silver was also insufficient.
What is the second and fourth treasure? It is 50 two silver, when you weigh it must be 52 two four dollars, more than 50 two out of 2 two four money, two five treasures, two six treasures and two seven treasures, that is 52 two five dollars, 52 two six dollars and 52 27 money, Kuping two is the purest is 52 two 4000, so when weighing silver, five two silver must be more than 5 two more than a little, this is called loss, so spending silver is very laborious, you just bring a calculator to you convert this for a while, and the ancient people spent silver is very inconvenient, Go out and buy a bun for a meal, bring some loose silver and you can do it.
No one in the sale of bulk commodities takes so much silver out of the house, so these silver are stored in the money bank, the money house will give you a silver ticket, take the silver ticket out, convenient for some large money houses in the country have semicolons, as long as you take the silver ticket of the money bank where you can spend. Shanxi people did the best in ancient China, so it was particularly inconvenient to consume silver.
Generally shopping is not with scattered silver two, with copper coins we now talk about copper coins, copper coins need not say more, successive dynasties and dynasties china have copper coins, from Qin Shi Huang began to unify the system of copper coins, foreign aid for internal defense, from now on as long as the new emperor ascends the throne, there is a certain Tongbao, Qianlong Tongbao, Kangxi Tongbao, Yongzheng Tongbao, this one copper coin is called a piece, 1000 copper coins are called a tune or a consistent official unit of measurement, is consistent money is 1000 copper coins equal to one or two silver, but the silver price is floating.
For example, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, because of the annual war, the price of copper coins was relatively high, so 800 copper coins were equal to one or two silver coins, and the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong periods were generally 1,000 copper coins, equal to one or two silver, and the exchange rate has been very stable. However, in the Jiaqing period, it broke through one or two pieces of silver, which was equal to the exchange rate of 1,000 copper coins, because of the influence of foreign trade.
In the Daoguang years, 2000 copper coins are equal to one or two silver, and later the Qing Dynasty foreign affairs movement, this copper coin has recovered to the exchange rate of 1300 ~ 1800 = 1 two silver, but this copper coin also has a large face value, such as when there are 4 coins when 5 coins, Xianfeng years there is a large copper coin equal to 4 small copper coins and equal to 5 small copper coins when 4 coins when 5 coins when 10 coins, and even the general copper coins of the day are written on a certain tongbao, Tongbao is a piece of money, If this coin is when 5 money or when 50 money, that is so-and-so Treasure, if it is when a hundred dollars, when a thousand dollars is called so-and-so yuan treasure, in ancient China to spend copper coins is very convenient, clearly marked price, do not need to weigh is a string of copper coins on the body is more disturbing, loud and loud, today about silver two and copper coins talked about here.