In addition to the exchange between goods and goods, shells are the earliest currency, but the value of money is very low, and slowly a variety of currencies rise, but the most popular currency during the Song Dynasty is paper money, when chengdu, Sichuan Appeared the earliest jiaozi, but after the Ming Dynasty, it returned to gold and silver, in fact, ancient silver, why are they disappearing now? This answer is a bit unbelievable!
In people's impression, in addition to the silver bills in ancient currency, there are many silver, these white flowers of silver in the eyes of the ancients is wealth, and now in the eyes of modern people is still a symbol of wealth, but why can not see so much silver in modern times? Was he also taken captive by the Western powers?
In fact, the ancient silver was not as numerous as modern people imagined. That is to say, the amount of silver is not very large, generally only those who have the status of high-ranking officials and nobles can enjoy the silver of white flowers, which is not only a status, but also a manifestation of wealth! Moreover, the mining and refining of silver is also very limited, and in ancient times, because of the limitations of technology, it may be difficult to refine good silver!
In addition, silver has mostly become ornaments. Nowadays, the flow of people on the street comes and goes, it is not difficult to see people wearing gold and silver, neck, ears, wrists, etc. are all kinds of decorations, although not very expensive, but indeed the reduction of silver or disappear!
In the end, silver will be used as a funerary object! Generally, after burial, the royal family not only has a large amount of gold and silver jewelry as a funerary product, but also uses silver as a kind of funerary product, even if it is dead, it is necessary to bury it deep in the ground with their own money!