In ancient society, silver tickets circulated in society, how to prevent counterfeiting? Unexpectedly, Zhu Bailu of the Ming Dynasty once wrote an article "Aphorisms for Governing the Family", which was put on a silver ticket. What does Zhu Bailu's article have to do with the anti-counterfeiting of silver tickets? Next, Xiaobian decrypts it for you:
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The anti-counterfeiting of silver tickets, on the one hand, relies on legal guarantees, who dare to imitate printing, directly go to prison and behead. On the other hand, it relies on the support of anti-counterfeiting technology. Anti-counterfeiting technology to the Qing Dynasty, has become more and more mature, silver tickets have been difficult to imitate, of which anti-counterfeiting technology, including the following items:
1. It is forbidden for the private sector to purchase kaguchi paper
Kaguchi river paper is a paper made of the bark of the tree, because it is produced in Sichuan, so it is called kaguchi river paper. The paper is bright and white, durable and complex in process, and it is difficult for general paper mills to forge, so the paper has become a special paper for printing money, and the official prohibition of private procurement. The procurement of such paper is as a felony as the forgery of silver bills.
Second, the pattern of printing silver stamps is quite complicated
The printed patterns of the silver tickets are very complex, most of which are hand-carved, with eight immortals, twenty-four filial pieties, flowers and plants, mountain views, or paintings using famous artists. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, the banknote patterns were mostly houses, flowers, birds, and figures, and the border was patterned.
It is conceivable that if you want to forge silver tickets, you must pass the carving pass, and there are not many carvers who can reach the carving pattern of silver tickets, there are not many in China, and it is estimated that not many people will do it, because the government will easily find the carvers.
Third, the use of the printing plate has a time limit
At that time, there were already people making fake silver tickets, and for this reason, the official and silver numbers kept changing the printing plates. In the early Ming Dynasty, paper money was printed on woodblocks, and later replaced by copper plates, while stipulating that the printing plates should only be used for one year, replaced with new ones when they expired, and the old plates were destroyed in time. Such a high replacement frequency makes it difficult for workshops that make fake silver tickets to keep up with the frequency of use of printing plates, making it difficult to counterfeit.
In addition, there is also an anti-counterfeiting technology, that is, micro-engraving text anti-counterfeiting. The main point of this technology is that there are a large number of anti-counterfeiting micro-engraving text printed on the face of the ticket, and the selected content is generally the famous quotes of celebrities or works that persuade people to be kind. This kind of micro-carving technology is not something that ordinary people can do, it requires excellence, and often requires carving masters in the industry to complete.
Sometimes, in order to better anti-counterfeiting, it is also necessary to deliberately carve the individual words in the micro-carving. Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Orchid Pavilion, famous for representing the highest achievement of xingshu, was once printed on a silver ticket with a few words deliberately engraved on it, leaving the counterfeiters confused. Known as the highest peak of silver ticket production, Beijing Rishengchang Silver Two Tickets, its inner layer of anti-counterfeiting technology is to print the Ming Dynasty Zhu Bolu's 516-character "Maxim of Governing the Family" on it.
Why can Zhu Bailu's "Aphorisms for Governing the Family" be on the cover of the silver ticket in a dignified manner? First of all, we must talk about Zhu Bailu, who was a famous theorist and educator at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The full text of his "Aphorisms for Governing the Family" is 516 words, although the text is concise, but the meaning is broad and profound, and it is the most influential and detailed book of the governing family in the past three hundred years.
Let's take a look at what is written in this book:
A porridge and a meal are not easy to come from; this sentence means: a bowl of porridge, a bowl of rice, when we eat, we must think about it, they are not easy to come by.
The meaning of this sentence is that when a gentleman acts, he must first control his mouth, and talk less, and once he says more, there will be mistakes.
Do not forget that you have helped others, and do not forget about them: if you have helped others, do not put them in your heart, and others have helped you, you must not forget.
These maxims are simple and unpretentious, in layman's terms, very simple and obvious, but they make people read with a sense of intimacy, seemingly as light as white water, but they are endlessly evocative.
Compared with the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion, the former definitely does not have the loose combination of the latter, and the work is gorgeous; if it is easy to understand the world's education and understand the truth of the world, the latter cannot be compared with the former. The stereotypist carved the aphorism on the silver ticket, which not only played a miniature anti-counterfeiting function, but also played a role of being close to the people, benefiting the people and the people.
Silver tickets are not only a means of currency circulation in society at that time, but also a good product worth collecting by our modern people. In the ancient society without high technology, when the printing level of silver tickets had reached such a peak, we, as modern people, should also be proud of it.
When Zhu Bolu was writing the "Aphorism for Governing the Family", he must not have imagined that his work would be engraved on the silver ticket, which really played a positive role in the widespread dissemination of the "Aphorism for Governing the Family".