These records show that as early as 4000 years ago, the Chinese nation used gold, but it was discovered before it was used, and its initial use was earlier than written records. Therefore, the history of the Chinese nation's discovery and use of gold can be traced back to 1000 to 5,000 years ago, almost as long as the history of China civilization.
China is a model of human farming natural economic system. In the historical period when the global farming economy was dominant, China's politics was the most stable and its economy was the most developed, so China's farming economy lasted for thousands of years. Farming economy is a self-sufficient economy, and farming and mulberry is the basic national policy of farming natural economy. Light industry, commerce and prohibition of mining have seriously inhibited the gold production in China, so in most dynasties in China history, the gold output was only 22,000 to 32,000 taels per year (small two: per catty 16 taels).
The long history of gold production in China is not equal to the developed gold productivity. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when China's national strength was at its worst, China's gold production left a flash.
Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history. In its last years, the national strength was weak and the people were poor. Become the object of division by global powers and become a colony and semi-colony. In the late Qing Dynasty, the economy was depressed, but gold production showed a bright color in silence.
From the end of 19 to the beginning of the 20th century, gold production in the Qing Dynasty reached a development climax, which created a production peak that no one surpassed in the following decades.
In the early Qing Dynasty, due to the prohibition of gold mining, the annual output of gold was only about 5,000 taels, while in the previous Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was only about 22,000 taels. But in the late Qing Dynasty, the annual output of gold in 16 was as high as 282,000 taels, which was more than 50 times higher than that in the early Qing Dynasty. The output of 19 1 1 reached 482,000, a record high.
Although this mountain peak has increased the gold production record of the Chinese nation by dozens of times, it has not formed a continuous mountain range, but an abrupt solitary ridge.
China's gold production reached its peak while the global gold mining industry leapt: from the end of 15 to the end of 16, only about 750 tons of gold were produced, while 10,000 tons of gold were produced in the 50 years in the second half of the 9th century, thus10 was produced.