How do you get change when you go to a restaurant with money?

In ancient times, when you take silver to a restaurant to eat, there are actually three situations when you take money to eat and pay for it at the checkout, and these two situations are because the people who eat are of different classes. If it is a high-ranking official and nobleman who goes to a restaurant to eat, when looking for change, it should be made with silver, which is more troublesome, because in ancient times, silver was not distributed in batches and equal amounts.

In ancient times, all the broken silver was obtained by cutting the silver pieces with steel scissors, and the quality of these broken silver varied, and they had to be weighed with a weighing rod before giving change to the guests. Therefore, it is more troublesome to find change for high-ranking officials and nobles, and there may be a situation where they want to find copper coins, but they will use it as a "tip" to save trouble, and give it to the person who runs the hall or the second child.

If an ordinary family goes to a restaurant to eat, they will generally take out 1 tael of silver, after all, 1 tael of silver was a lot of money in ancient times. And for ordinary people, eating in a restaurant is a luxury, and they often don't spend a lot of money on a restaurant. Therefore, it is easier to give change to this kind of guest, as long as you weigh how many taels of silver a bar brought by the guest, it is generally one tael (because most ordinary people save the most 1 tael of silver), so when giving change, you only need to count the number of copper coins.

If it is a rural area or a poor family to eat, the restaurant shopkeeper will not have the trouble of making change, because this kind of person often carries copper coins, and the shopkeeper only needs to confirm the number of copper coins when checking out. Therefore, in ancient times, it may be more troublesome for high-ranking officials and nobles to eat, but the trouble is not on the master, and there are usually slaves left behind to solve this problem.

In fact, in ancient times, there was also a system of credit, so generous customers would give it to the store. Other times, the store will give the same ** amount of money to offset.

I don't think people will give you change, you need to go to the bank to convert the silver into cash when you go to dinner to find money, if you only take out the silver, people may say that you are sick.

The bookkeeper will weigh the silver first, and if it is sufficient, the seller will cut it with steel scissors, and then give the change to the customer, if not, he will use the previous broken silver to find the customer, but it is really not good, there is a thing called copper coins.

In ancient times, cashiers would first weigh the silver, and then look for the right silver to make change. It is also possible to find a copper plate, because one ingot of silver is equivalent to a thousand copper plates.

In ancient times, silver was to be weighed, and people would use steel shears to cut the silver into pieces for easy weighing. The owner of the restaurant will cut the silver into pieces, cut them small enough, and then exchange them for copper coins, which will be very convenient.

In ancient times, silver was weighed, and there was a currency called copper coins underneath the silver. Xiao Er weighed with a pole to see if the weight of the silver is sufficient, if the foot will be the seller will use steel scissors to cut the silver, and then give change to the customer, if the cut is not good, use the previous broken silver to find, broken silver can not be found with copper coins.

A silver ingot is equal to a thousand copper coins, and hotel merchants can make change according to how much money a meal is.

In ancient times, silver came by weight. When people go to a restaurant to eat and ask for change, the store may weigh it in advance and retrieve the broken silver or copper coins.

The bookkeeper will weigh a certain weight of broken silver for change, and if there is no suitable broken silver to fill, he will convert it into copper coins of the same price for change.

Generally, the official silver will have many weight inscriptions, but the folk are mainly broken silver, and the shop that pays for it has a special name to weigh, if there is more, you can cut the silver, return the excess to the customer, or find copper money.

I think the ancients went out with silverI don't think I can change anything when I buy something

Because according to the romance ** I have seen, most of them will say "don't want it", "don't look for it", and it feels like the origin of tipping. Moreover, in ancient times, since most of the people who could use the silver should have been from relatively wealthy families. So for thatI don't think I care too much about some broken silver

And in most cases, even if you go out with silver, there is actually a smaller unit than silver, and that is copper coins. Of course, I haven't carefully studied a trading system in ancient money, so it's not particularly clear that they have a hierarchical relationship between a series of currencies such as silver, **, and copper coins.

But no matter what social system you trade in, it tends to be fairer. Therefore, since we can now think of dividing the size of the currency into a hierarchy to make an equivalent exchange, I believe that no matter what period of antiquity, there must have been a corresponding trading system.

The most typical is actually a trade in goods during the slavery period. At that time, before the formation of money, people would barter for what they needed.

Then we also know that in human nature, everyone will think more about themselves, so they will definitely not let themselves suffer. When I was going to trade a cow for a bowl of yours, I would never have taken just one bowl from you, so perhaps you would have to give me a set of bowls, or some other equivalent of value.

And these things, that is, what we call change, so you don't have to worry about how to change your silver in ancient times, money is king.

In ancient times, there would still be copper coins, and the existence of copper coins is equivalent to our current dollar.

If there is no change at the time of change, then it will be owed in the form of bookkeeping.

I think it's probably smaller than silver, such as copper coins.

Because they would have broken silver, or copper coins, to make change.

Because of my goodness, they also have a lot of money, and they use different coins for different things.

The ancients also had copper coins in addition to silver, and if they needed change, they were generally looking for copper coins.

In ancient times, in addition to silver, there would also be copper coins, and copper coins were used when giving change, so some people would also carry a large string of copper coins when they went out.

In ancient times, when people went out to buy things with silver, they generally did not give change, and only used other items instead of change.

In ancient times, there were bits and pieces of silver, and there were copper coins that could be changed.

Officially recast.

Silver ingots have a "face value" bai, if you use 20 taels of du silver ingots to buy 10 taels worth of zhi goods, you can directly find 10 taels of silver ingots. There are also cut-out ones. (In the Song Dynasty, there were silver stamps to replace silver ingots, and in the Ming Dynasty, the use of gold and silver was once banned to promote paper money, which is very close to the way we use the yuan.)

There is no official certification of broken silver from the people, and the weight and fineness need to be determined by themselves at the time of trading. Ancient Chinese shopping with unofficial silver: in addition to a lump of silver, you also need to prepare mallets, chisels, scales, weights and anvils.

The merchant needs to first look at the fineness of the lump of silver to decide how much to collect, and then smash the silver and go to the scale. If the value of the broken silver is slightly higher than the value of the goods, add a few more to make it up. If it is a large payment, it is necessary to find a professional to determine the fineness of the silver.

"Broken silver" was originally smashed and cut into pieces.

In ancient China, small payments were mainly made with copper coins, but also through iron coins, and many other countries also had similar small coins. Of course, the "face value" of small coins can sometimes be higher than the goods you want to buy, and some people will choose not to buy them first, and then buy them together when the goods they want to buy are enough. In some places, small commodities such as eggs and soap are also used as "folk coins" to "make change" in such situations.

Chrono rescuers.

Director: Lin Zicong.

Screenwriter: Lin Zicong.

Starring: Huo Jianhua.

Genre: Drama.

Region: Taiwan.

Language: Chinese.

Released: 2012-01-24

Runtime: 90 minutes.

In martial arts**, there are many scenes about eating in restaurants. The knights of the rivers and lakes walk the rivers and lakes, and after eating, they often throw off a silver ingot and go away in a dashing manner, and they don't need to find money! Were the ancients really so generous?

Silver ingots are commonly known as ingots, and there are generally two casting specifications, ten taels and fifty taels. In the Song Dynasty, the purchasing power of one tael of silver was seven or eight hundred yuan today, ten taels of silver ingots were seven or eight thousand yuan today, and fifty taels of silver ingots were close to forty thousand yuan! Therefore, silver ingots are mainly used to store wealth and make payments for commodities, and are rarely circulated in the market.

Just like today, it is difficult for people to spend seven or eight thousand yuan on a meal in a restaurant, and they will not not give change, unless it is not their own money.

The most commonly used in the market by the ancients was broken silver, which had a much smaller face value than silver ingots. The weight of broken silver is not standardized, it is large and small, and it is relatively random. So the ancients would carry two things with them when they used it:

One is scissors, and the other is 戥 (děnɡ). When using, cut an appropriate amount of broken silver with scissors and weigh it with a tongzi. This kind of scissors is different from ordinary scissors, the scissor edge is very short, but the handle is very long and thick, so that the use of the lever principle can be more labor-saving.

It is a small scale with a high degree of accuracy, which is said to have appeared in the Song Dynasty. It can be accurate to the centimeter, and one centimeter is about a milligram. It can be used not only to weigh silver, but also to weigh valuables such as gold or traditional Chinese medicine.

When the ancients traded, they weighed and paid for as much silver as they needed. 戥子 is a necessary measuring tool used in ancient China when spending silver. The famous French historian Braudel once described in the book "Material Civilization and Economic Capitalism in the 15th and 18th Centuries" that in ancient times, shoppers "carried steel scissors with them, and hinged silver ingots into pieces of different sizes according to the ** of the purchased goods."

Each piece has to be weighed: both buyers and sellers use a hammer." **There are also many fragments of "Dream of Red Mansions", such as the fifty-first chapter

So he opened the drawer, and saw a few pieces of silver in a small dustpan, and a handful of them. Musk Yue took a piece of silver, and asked Baoyu, 'Which is one or two stars?'

The ancients used scissors to cut silver when trading, which is to verify the purity of **, such as cutting it open to see if there is adulteration in it, and to see if the fault contains lead. In addition, people who used to spend money in ancient times would tie a copper bell-shaped thing around their waists, which contained a wax block to collect the silver dust that had been hinged out. When the silver dust accumulates to a certain amount, the wax block can be melted into silver.

The ancients also racked their brains in saving money, and it was not as generous as we imagined. You must learn to use scissors skillfully before crossing, otherwise it will not cost you money to wear it back, and if you cut off your fingers, it will be a big loss.

戥子 in a box (China Overseas Chinese History Museum.

Fifty taels of silver.

Ten taels of silver ingots. <>

Broken silver.

In ancient times, every time a guest finished eating, he would just put down the silver and leaveIf we would have changed now, why didn't we use it in ancient times? Is there any reason? Let's discuss it together.

One. TV effects

In TV, in fact, in order not to drag out the plot, the step of finding money is generally omitted when checking out at the inn, so that the audience's focus will be on the dialogue of the actors, so this is generally omitted. But generally speaking, sometimes if there is a more detailed portrayal of a certain character, the plot will be portrayed, in order to show that the identity is within the background, and in TV, the ancients left the silver and left, mostly to show the heroism of the character.

Two. Weighing calculations of silver

In fact, in ancient times, if you go to the inn to eat when the checkout with broken silver is a very troublesome thing, in ancient times can use broken silver to settle the shop, generally are more particular about credibility and integrity of the store, this kind of shop is generally relatively large, such a fine calculation of money, in order to highlight the level of the store, and sometimes, if you need to change, you will use scissors to reduce the volume of relatively large silver to some small pieces for change, so it is very troublesome to do a thing, So people usually give money with about the same amount of silver.

Three. It doesn't matter how big the silver is

Generally, in ancient times, the size of money was not very fine, and silver weighed something, so it would not be too finely weighed, generally as long as it was enough weight.

In ancient times, after eating, the guest put down the silver and left, which should have been just right.

The guests put down their money and left, for the amount of silver was relatively large at that time.

Because in this way, those who give silver are rich, and those who give more than **.

The guests put down their money and left, because the amount of money was just enough for food.

Most of them are also to show the heroism of this character.

For the silver of the people of ancient times was a prescribed amount.

Because if the silver is large, you can tell how much it is.

Not to mention, in ancient times, such as the Tang Dynasty, buying things mainly used silver and copper coins. Rich people generally carry more silver, and the common people have more copper coins when they are poor. What should I do with silver change? Cut it open!

In ancient times, it was used for broken silver, but what about it? It's really cut-out. After a silver ingot comes out, after all, two numbers are large, and you must look for money when you use it.

Silver in the Tang Dynasty was the currency in circulation, but it didn't matter what kind of silver it was, just look at the weight, the so-called one, two, five, twenty, and ten taels. If you want to make change, you can use steel scissors to cut the large amount of silver, and return the more. The reason why it is not smashed is because it is not good to control the amount.

Therefore we see that the broken silver is very irregular, because it is all cut freshly. Only when it is not good to cut the silver into slag when it is not good to cut the silver into slag, can we calculate the approximate amount left, and make up for it with a small amount of copper coins.

Therefore, in the Song and Ming dynasties, when the commodity economy was more developed, there was the circulation of silver dollars, copper coins and paper money, which reduced the trouble of simply cutting silver. But as long as it is paid in silver, the trouble remains.