There are two big problems involved, making money and saving money. Thousands of years before the invention of the safe, people in China were very anxious. Compared with making money, how to hide money when saving money is the most difficult thing to rack one's brains.
After all, China people are the world's favorite savers, and this tradition has a long history. Since childhood, I have been instilled with positive energy such as many a mickle makes a muckle, and I am very worried that I can't save money.
Hide where? Ancient people hid money in various ways, which was an eye-opener, such as walls, cesspits, beams, cellars and graves. At that time, medical conditions were not good. Once they die, they will try as hard as the captain to find the treasure.
Not afraid of thieves stealing, but afraid of thieves thinking. For more than 3,000 years from the Shang Dynasty, the ancients racked their brains to hide money, and their brains were very painful.
The royal dignitaries of Shang Dynasty once hid the bronze heavyweight "Simu Wuding" under an ancient cesspit, but thanks to this practice, it can be preserved today. Archaeologists dug up this big guy with a shovel when they unearthed it, and I don't know what it smelled like.
In the Qin dynasty, it was much higher than the Shang dynasty hidden in the cesspit. At that time, the popular "wall hiding" was to make the wall into a sandwich and put valuables in it. When Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism, the descendants of Confucius had long had the idea of hiding ancient books in the wall. Later, when Liu Che became emperor, King Lu Gong expanded his palace and demolished the former residence of Confucius. Only from the interlayer of the wall, he found a number of ancient Chinese bamboo slips, including Shangshu, Book of Rites, Chunqiu and Analects of Confucius, which also left a trace of blood for Chinese civilization. Up to now, there are occasional reports that when the old house was demolished, the place where the ancestors stored gold and silver was found on the wall, which surprised and delighted the landlord.
During the Han and Tang dynasties, it was popular among the people to save money in a piggy bank, and to make a box-shaped vessel with pottery or bronze ware. There was a narrow opening at the top for putting copper coins in and throwing scattered copper coins in. Some also have a small eye in their abdomen, which is used to insert a rope and hang it on the beam. Money has only an entrance, but no exit. Finally, when it is full or needed, the piggy bank will be broken and taken out. "Flush when full", hence the name "piggy bank". Yes, this is something like chamber pot below.
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, "hoarding goods" was popular in society. Usually dig a big hole in the house or hide the money in the cellar. Owners will be divided into three or four floors. Slate and bricks will be stacked between the floors, and the soil layer will be sealed with lime or mixed with broken tiles to increase the difficulty of digging thieves. It is recorded in Shen Kuo's Dream Creek in Song Dynasty that local tyrants in Luoyang generally have the habit of digging gold, so their descendants will ask buyers for a "gold digger's money" when they sell their houses to pay for the treasures that may exist under them.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, peasant uprisings continued, and in troubled times, the ancient methods of saving money began to lose their inheritance and discipline. Some people hide money in tree holes, some people hide it in graves, and some people hide it in their own big pillars. For example, Shenyang, a corrupt official, is a bad old man. The most dangerous place is the safest place. He hid a lot of gold, silver and jewels in a big column in the courtyard of a mansion. At that time, the Qing soldiers who raided the property did not find a large amount of gold and silver jewelry, which made the officials who raided the property very headache. Later, the Qing soldiers who raided the house were ready to retreat until a guy accidentally fell down and hit a hole in the post with his head before finding the baby's hiding place.
Better ways to save money It was not until the emergence of modern safes that safes really began to enter the eyes of Chinese people in the Republic of China. At that time, local tyrants and Kuomintang officers were popular with three-piece sets, including American flying pigeon radios, Swiss Omega watches and a British CHUBB safe. For example, in the TV series "Latent", the practice of hiding gold bars in a chicken nest is purely the practice of literary youth, while it is a routine operation for stationmaster Wu of the military system to store gold bars in a safe.
It was in the early 1980s that China people first really got close to safes. At that time, with the reform and opening up in China, everything recovered, and the first ten thousand households appeared. At that time, people were not used to putting money in the bank and thought it was safest to keep it around. About 10 thousand families began to buy password safes and put them in the living room to show their value and strength. At this time, the domestic safe industry began to prosper unprecedentedly.
By the end of 1990s and the beginning of 2000, with the rise of township enterprises in southern Jiangsu and other areas, safes began to really enter thousands of households, from the rarity that used to be seen only in movies to ordinary things. However, in this period, in the minds of ordinary people, safes are not so safe, and skilled thieves can unlock them in minutes, and similar theft news emerges one after another. During this period, Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas popular in Chinese mainland filmed various types of thieves and thief series.
This matter was quickly solved by an English teacher named Ma Yun. In 2003, Ma Yun launched Alipay. At that time, it was mainly aimed at the credit problem of shopping on Taobao, and launched the "secured transaction" model to reduce the transaction risk of online shopping. No one expected that this was unintentional and actually promoted the arrival of the mobile payment era. Yes, it is the man who claims that his face value is inversely proportional to his talent.
While western developed countries are still immersed in the satisfaction of cash and writing checks, this mysterious ancient country from the East has hit them with a promotion. With the rapid development of mobile payment represented by Alipay, even aunts selling candied haws and beggars begging on the street have used Alipay. People use less and less cash, and the demand for safes is gradually decreasing. However, Alipay "arranged" a virtual safe for everyone. You can deposit money in AliPay. In Alipay's "security memo", you can also put in common accounts, mother's bank card, delivery address and so on. And you can also set numbers, fingerprints and other passwords for protection. If it is stolen, there is insurance to lose money. People's money bags feel so safe for the first time. Before, there were only100000 safes in China. Now, because of Alipay, China has nearly 654.38+0 billion virtual safes at once. This even makes the incidence of robbery and theft plummet. This wave of operation has confused foreigners. Why can't you even see the taillights when overtaking?
On March 27th, 20 17, a month of darkness and strong wind, two stupid thieves traveled thousands of miles from other places to Hangzhou, the birthplace of mobile payment, to prepare for robbery. They also specially spent 2000 yuan to buy an electric car, which was used for running after it was finished. As a result, after carefully planning and robbing three convenience stores along the road, he fled. As a result, they robbed 1600 yuan and made a net loss to 400 yuan. The thief was arrested and complained directly. I didn't expect people in Hangzhou to use Alipay. "I don't even have a safe. This is the case. "
It is also said that the emergence of Alipay has gradually declined the safe deposit box industry, but it is just like the appearance of cars has had an impact on the grooms, but dozens of car drivers have appeared. The emergence of Alipay has spawned a large number of new industries and occupations, such as service providers and coders. Now, the safe industry is also actively upgrading and transforming. Some manufacturers have begun to export their safes at home and sell them to Southeast Asia and other countries that still pay mainly in cash. Some manufacturers have also begun to make a series of smart homes including safes and smart toilets across borders, achieving a gorgeous turn.