China’s coin and paper currency

• 来源期刊: 中国周刊
• 学科: 历史
• 关键词: CURRENCY earliest SHELLS today MONEY connected WEALTH characters CARRY notes
• 年，卷（期）: 2003,（9）
• 页码范围: 30-32
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: K875

摘要

【正】 From shells to "implement" coinsChina is the birthplace of paper money and one of the earliest users of metal coinage. In the earliest times, cowrie shells were widely used as money. Cowrie and tortoise, pearls and pieces of jade are know to have been used as tokens of exchange before the Shang dynasty (16th-11th century BC) and to have come into wide use during that time. Even today, Chinese characters connected with the idea of value or wealth carry the radi-