Of course! It is normal that ordinary people have never seen such a big silver ingot in their lives. These silver ingots are not in circulation in the world and belong to the official silver. At first, the state government collected silver from the people, melted it, poured it into silver ingots, stamped it with official seals, and handed it over to the local government to pay taxes and pay salaries. In addition to the official silver, there are also silver collars and silver ingots poured in business. Only big firms doing imperial business can close the bank, and ordinary people generally use broken silver in their lives.
Hard currency such as gold and silver was scarce in ancient China, and it was not until the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty that silver became a currency in circulation. Now we can see boat-shaped gold ingots, massive silver ingots and strip-shaped silver collars in the museum, all of which are clearly marked with weight.
Silver ingots are usually divided into four types: the first is large ingots, that is? Yuanbao? , weighing about fifty taels, what's it called? Yin Bao? . There are many shapes of Yin Bao, which are basically after the Yuan Dynasty, that is, we have the impression that the two ends are tilted like a small basket. Cast a horseshoe-shaped treasure silver call? Horseshoe silver? . In the Dunhuang case-solving, Stein exchanged horseshoe silver for the scriptures of the Taoist king. The second type is medium ingot, with 10 pairs, mostly in scale shape, also called small ingot. The third type is a silver shovel, ranging from one to five, and the shape of steamed bread is mostly. The fourth one is called. Zhu Fu? , also called what? Drop beads? Or? Silver? It looks like a pearl and weighs less than one or two. Liangshan heroes often use it? Broken silver? Buy wine? Broken silver? Namely. Zhu Fu? .
What if a rich man takes 50 taels of silver to dinner and only needs one tael? At this time, the store will take out a pair of scissors and cut a short piece on the edge of the ingot. If you cut it less, cut it again. At that time, almost every citizen would carry a nickname with him, Yanzi, which could be accurately weighed. This is how broken silver is slowly cut out in private transactions.
But there will be such a problem, because the pouring process is different, the purity and color of silver will be biased. At this time, the best way is to find a unified place to change. This is a silver shop. They can turn broken silver into big silver ingots, or they can cut big silver ingots into broken silver. Of course, the loss of pouring is still borne by people themselves.
In A Dream of Red Mansions, there are several references to cutting silver. When silver becomes money, everything made of silver can be transformed into value through quality. Lu once squashed his silver wine cup, silver wine bowl and silver hip flask and took them away in a bag just to make silver flowers. Silver ornaments brought by a girl's dowry, etc., can also be used at critical times.
So when we saw some costume dramas or martial arts dramas, talented people and beautiful women walked into a restaurant, looked around, took out a silver ingot and looked arrogant. The boss was embarrassed for a while: Oh, I can't find the store. ? I think, maybe the writer is right? Cann't change it? There must be some misunderstanding.