We often see some ancient people in some ancient TV dramas who often use silver to pay for things when buying things, and these silver are like yuanbao in our hearts, which looks very flattering, and even when some rich merchants bribe corrupt officials, we will see boxes full of gold and silver treasures neatly arranged in the box. But TV dramas are TV dramas after all, was this really the case with silver in ancient times?
Let's make an analogy, just like the banknotes in our hands, which were so new when they first came out, and began to crumpl as they circulated in the market, in fact, in ancient times, silver was the same. After expert identification, the silver of such white flowers is not inferior, but more is dull, and even the surface of the silver is even tooth marks and stains, even if you throw the silver on the ground, you will not pick it up.
The gold yuanbao we see on TV is rare in the folk, because the denomination is too large, and a piece of gold yuanbao like this can be eaten by an ordinary family for a year. Therefore, such a gold yuan treasure will only exist in the official government, and in the folk, it is mainly broken silver, and it is difficult to have silver like a yuanbao. In order to be able to trade faster and more conveniently, in ancient times there were also some tools to cut silver, and these large yuan treasures were cut into small pieces of silver one by one, which were accurate to two.
In ancient times, the craftsmanship of silver was very rough, and there were a lot of impurities, even the official silver had a lot of impurities. In addition, there are many impurities containing silver is very easy to be oxidized, the above oxidation of silver is very affecting the beauty of silver, but this situation has been improved after the Ming Dynasty, the demand for silver in the West is very large, and the eyes of Westerners silver is a commodity, not the standard of silver.
In order to open the trade market of our people, the coastal areas of the mainland exchanged a large number of materials needed by Westerners, resulting in a large amount of silver pouring into the mainland, so that the value of silver was devalued, and the silver that flowed to the hands of the people began to become shiny, but despite this, due to the use habits of the Chinese people, there were still a large number of tooth marks and stains on the silver in the end.