Introduction to the currencies of the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the currencies of the

The coins of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period of Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Zhao, Wei, and Han are composed of four types: cloth coins, knife coins, ring coins, and ant-nose coins (grimace coins). It was one of the four major monetary systems of the Warring States period.

The cloth coin, in the shape of a shovel, evolved from the agricultural tools "money" and "plutonium" of the agricultural economy, which is why the currency is called "money". "Cloth" is a borrowed word for "镈". The circulation scope of cloth coins is mainly in the agricultural economic areas in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, such as Korea, Zhao, Wei, Yan, etc.

Knife coins, knife cut shape, originated from the fishing and hunting economy. It mainly circulates in the eastern vassal states of the Yellow River Valley, such as Qi, Yan, and Zhao. The knife coins of various countries are different in size and shape, among which the knife coins of Qi are the most simple and exquisite.

Round money, round round hole, also called ring money. Originated from the spinning wheel or bihuan of handicraft economic tools, mainly circulated in Qin, Wei, and Korea, after the middle of the Warring States period, the Qin State first used the square hole round coin, and later the Qi State and the Yan State also imitated the casting.

Ant nose money, also known as grimace money, is the southern Chu State of the minted copper coin, the shape is irregular oval, there is a Yin inscription on it, there is a kind of money like ants crawling on the bridge of the nose of people, so the name ant nose money; The other is like an ugly ghost, hence the name grimace money. The value is calculated in pieces, which is more convenient to use.

At that time, the conversion ratio was mainly related to the price of food, the purity of the currency. For example, in normal times, Qin coins can be exchanged for one Qi coin. Later, in order to cope with the crisis, the Qin State mixed many impurities in the Qin coins, so that the three Qin coins could only be exchanged for two Qi coins.

Not only that, but the value of currencies between countries is also closely related to the price of food. After all, at that time, food was the foundation of survival.

The Spring and Autumn Period is a period of great change from slavery to feudalism in China's history, the further development of the commodity economy has led to a large demand for circulating currency, and the metal casting technology is also becoming more and more mature, providing the necessity and possibility for a large number of metal coins.

Knife coins: Zhao Qiyan cloth coins: Zhao Wei Han ring coins: Qin Wei ant nose coins: Chu Zai details:

"Knife coins" are popular in Qiyan, Zhao, Zhongshan and other places in the shape of knives.

"Cloth coins" are popular in Zhou, Zhengwei, Han, Zhao, Wei, Yanchu and other places in the shape of plutonium (money, shovel).

"Ring money" was popular in Qin, Zhou, Han, Zhao, Wei, Yanqi and other places.

"Antnose coin" is popular in Chu.

The emergence of money has promoted the efficiency of the exchange of goods and goods, and promoted the development of the economy for a certain period of time. However, the candidate nations began to mint coins one after another, and they were not unified in their own ways. The form, system, name, weight, etc., of the coins of various countries, each has its own characteristics, very complex, in addition to the minting of bronze coins, some regions also use the first two currencies, and some regions still continue to use the original currency.

The currency between the vassal states is not the same, hindering the economic exchange between the countries, the currency of each country is different, the value is not the same, to different countries, the same commodity, but due to the different currencies, ** has also changed! It is detrimental to both commercial transactions and the circulation of money. In any case, this also laid a certain material foundation for Qin Shi Huang to unify the currency.

Presumably we all know that in modern society, money is an indispensable item, it can give you a very comfortable living environment, reasonable use of it will make you more wealthy, then in ancient times there are a lot of money, each period of coins are different, today we want to talk about the Spring and Autumn period how many kinds of coins.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in order to promote the commercial development of various countries, the demand for currency at this time will be greatly increased, in order to increase the problem of currency on a large scale, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, each country has its own currency, resulting in the currency of each country can not be used in other countries, and the beginning of all this is because of the weakening of the Zhou Dynasty, so that each country has established its own economic system, which is famous for: knife coin, cloth currency and grimace coin.

First of all, let's introduce the cloth coin, its shape is a bit similar to a shovel, in the early Spring and Autumn period cloth currency was manufactured, until the late Warring States period did not become a circulating currency, in this view its status is also very high, or because the country that made this currency is very strong, this currency is made from farming tools, and because it is relatively heavy, it is very inconvenient to carry and then slowly transformed into a flat first coin.

Down is the knife coin, the same is made of tools, but the knife coin is indeed **, the shape is similar to a machete, the types of knife coins are also a lot of not one by one, widely used in Qi and Yan, and then slowly flowed into the Zhao State, but after Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng unified the six countries, it did not appear again, and then it was the Yuan money This currency was only popular later, because of its strange shape, it is called grimace money, mainly the general coin of Qin and Wei, But its money hole is a round hole, I heard that this kind of coin appeared in the Qin Dynasty, according to my opinion, I have a lot of ancient money, but because it is too much, there is no possibility of trading between many countries, but in the Yingzheng period, the coin was agreed to be a kind.