1. Currency of the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties
Wei: once traded with grain and silk, and also restored the circulation of five baht coins;
Shu: straight hundred coins ;
Wu: A big spring is five hundred, a big spring is worth a thousand.
Two Jin Dynasties: No new coins were minted. The Western Jin Dynasty mainly used the five baht and various ancient coins of the Han and Wei dynasties. After the Emperor Yuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty crossed the river, he mainly used the old coins circulating in the Sun Wu area.
Sixteen Kingdoms: Zhang Gui, the governor of Liangzhou in Hexi Province, restored the five-baht coin, and the Han Xing coin was the earliest year-name coin in our country.
2. Currency in the Southern and Northern Dynasties
Liu Song: four baht coins;
Southern Qi and Xiaoliang: the first large-scale casting of iron coins, copper coins, Five baht coins, short one hundred;
Chen: Dadai six beads;
Northern Wei: Taihe five baht, Yongan five baht; Eastern Wei: Yan Yongan five baht; Northern Qi: Changping five Baht; Northern Zhou Dynasty: cloth springs, five elements of cloth, forever connected to all countries;
At the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties: people in the north of Jizhou traded silk cloth, and south of Wuling, salt and rice cloth were traded.
3. Currency during the Sui and Tang Dynasties
Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty cast a unified standard five-baht coin and became the unified currency in domestic circulation!
During the legal currency circulation system of the Tang Dynasty, both money and silk were used
In the fourth year of Wude, five baht was discarded and Kaiyuan Tongbao coins were cast. name.
4. Currencies of the late Tang and Five Dynasties
Huichang Kaiyuan Tongbao coins (Kaiyuan Tongbao coins with writing on the back, and later each state cast the name of the state on the back of the money).
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were generally chaotic, and Zhou Shizong's casting of Zhou Yuan Tianbao was the time when he cast the most money.
Silver began to enter circulation (copper coins decreased, silk was less feasible, and silver gradually entered circulation), but in the Tang Dynasty it was mainly used as ornaments or wealth collections (silver cakes, silver collars), bribes, Thanks to gifts, military supplies, and local donations, the practice of public and private accumulation of silver gradually formed after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Lingnan Road and Jiangxi Road produce the most silver.
5. Currency during the Song Dynasty
The reign name money of the Song Dynasty: In addition to the provisions of Tongbao money, the emperor's reign name is added. The currencies issued in the early Northern Song Dynasty were Song-Yuan Tongbao and Kaiyuan Tongbao, which were indistinguishable. Later, there were Taiping Tongbao and Chunhua Tongbao. Emperors of the past dynasties would recast new year-name coins every time they changed the Yuan Dynasty. The characters are all Tongbao, Chongbao, Yuanbao, etc. but the fonts have changed, including Zhen, Cao, Li, Zhuan and Xing.
Northern Song Dynasty Copper Coin Area: Kaifeng Prefecture, East and West Beijing, Hebei, Huainan, Jiangnan, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, Fujian, East and West Guangdong and other places.
Northern Song Dynasty Iron Coin Area: Sichuan
Northern Song Dynasty Iron Coin Area: Shaanxi, Hedong
Southern Song Dynasty Copper Coin Area: Southeast,
Southern Song Dynasty Iron money areas: Lianghuai, Jingxi, Hubei
Southern Song Dynasty iron money concurrent use areas: Jingmen and other places
Jiaozi: Credit certificates and currencies that can be redeemed by customers can only be redeemed in Sichuan use.
Qian Yin: not used as currency, only used for exchange, can be used outside Sichuan (Song Huizong changed Jiaozi to Qian)
Southern Song Dynasty Huizi: originally among the people in the southeast region Later, the government established Huiziku, which completely imitated Sichuan Yin's method of issuing Huiyin.
Local currencies: Huaijiao, Huhui, Chuanyin, Yinhuizi.
6. Currency in the Yuan Dynasty
The Central Banknote Period: The foundation of the Yuan banknote system was laid. The Yuan Dynasty did not mint copper coins. Zhongtong Yuanbao's banknotes are based on silk as the capital and Guan and Wen as the unit.
To the Yuan banknote period: the most important currency of the Yuan Dynasty, circulated in parallel with the Zhongtong banknote.
Up to the period of official banknotes: The Yuan Dynasty strictly prohibited the circulation of silver, but it was widely used among the people, and banknotes were linked to silver.
7. Currency during the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes: The banknotes are based on the face value. There is no reserve for the issuance of banknotes. People are allowed to exchange gold and silver for Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes. There are restrictions on payment. Old banknotes could be exchanged for new ones; paper currency collapsed in 1481 and silver became the universal currency in 1581.
8. Currency in modern times
Copper coins from money making to copper dollars
Silver coins from silver taels to silver dollars (the earliest foreign silver dollar flowing into China was the Spanish silver dollar, Guangxu In the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Zhang Zhidong asked to set up a bureau to cast silver coins in Guangdong, and in the 16th year of Guangxu's reign, the casting was officially approved).
Extended information:
The six major currency pairs are: U.S. dollar (USD), euro (EUR), Japanese yen (JPY), pound sterling (GBP), and Swiss franc (CHF) , Australian dollar (AUD).
Related introduction:
A currency pair is a foreign exchange transaction rate composed of two currencies. It is represented by two ISO codes plus a separator, such as GBP/USD, where the first One code represents the "base currency" and the other is the "secondary currency".
The most common currencies traded in currency markets are called "major currencies". Most currencies are bought and sold against the United States Dollar (USD).
The U.S. dollar (USD) is the most traded currency
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