1. Green clam is the legendary name of the insect. Volume 950 of "Taiping Yulan" quotes Han Liu An's "Huainan Wanbi Shu": "The green clam repays the money: The green clam is a fish uncle, or Pu, with its son and mother, each of them, placed in an urn and buried in the east Go under the Yin Yuan and open it after three days, then you will follow each other. Apply eighty-one coins with the blood of the mother and eighty-one coins with the blood of the son. Use the money to trade with each other. If you put the son, you will use the mother, and if you put the mother, you will use the son. "Repay yourself." Later used to refer to money.
2. Bu Quan's "Zhou Li·Tian Guan·Wai Fu" "Controlling the Entrance and Exit of Bu" Han Zhengxuan's note: "Bu, spring (money). Its storage is called Quan, and its movement is called Bu "So "Buquan" generally refers to money and goods.
3. Kong Fang is Brother Kong Fang, also known as Brother Jia, a nickname for Qian. In the old days, copper coins had a round outer surface and a square hole in the middle, hence the name. In addition, the word Qian is composed of "jin, Ge, Ge". "Ge" and "Ge" have the same pronunciation, so they "call each other brothers and sisters". The words come from Jin Lu Bao's "The Theory of Qian Shen" "The body of money has the image of the universe. It is square on the inside and round on the outside. Its accumulation is like a mountain, and its flow is like a river. There is movement and stillness, and there are knots in the movement, so the market is easy. , don’t suffer from wear and tear. It’s difficult to lose the elephant’s life, so it can last for a long time, and it is a sacred treasure in the world. The word is Kong Fang. If you lose it, you will be poor and weak. If you get it, you will be rich and prosperous. Walking away, you can understand Yan Yi's face and open his mouth."
4. After Huoquan Wang Mang became emperor on behalf of the Han Dynasty, he hated the Liu family very much. Because the character Qian contains "gold and knife", and the character "Liu" is composed of "mao, gold and knife" (all refer to traditional Chinese characters), Wang Mang changed the name of Qian to "Huoquan". The word "spring" consists of the two characters "white and water", so it is also called "Baishui Zhenren".
5. The Adu Wudian comes from Liu Yiqing, King of Linchuan in the Southern Song Dynasty, in "Shi Shuo Xin Yu·Gui Zhi No. 10": "Wang Yifu is elegant and far-sighted. He often resents his wife for being greedy and has never spoken the word 'money'. The woman wanted to try it, so she asked her maid to go around the bed with money, but she couldn't go. When Yifu got up in the morning, he saw that the money was blocking his way. means "this". "Lift this thing" means "take this thing away".
6. There is no alternative. It used to refer to a very large silver ingot, which is difficult to use. Song Hongmai's "Yijian Zhizhi" records that King Zhang Xun of the Song Dynasty was rich in his family and was afraid of being stolen. For this reason, he had every thousand taels of silver melted into a big ball, which he called "no help", which means there is nothing anyone can do. It must not.
7. Shangqing Boy is another name for ancient coins. It is said that during the Zhenguan period, a "Shangqing Boy Yuanbao" came to Cenwen's summer resort pavilion. After finishing speaking, he sent him out of the pavilion and suddenly disappeared under the wall. After digging in the ground, I found an ancient coin, and realized that "Shangqing Boy" was the copper name, and "Yuanbao" was the money inscription. See Tang Gu Shenzi's "Bo Yi Zhi·Cen Wenwen". Later, "Shangqing Boy" was adopted as Qian's alias.
8. Deng Tong During the Western Han Dynasty, some people used Deng Tong as another name for money. There is a verse in Chapter 30 of "Jin Ping Mei" that "Wealth and honor must be obtained through treachery, and fame and success are all due to Deng Tong." Deng Tong is another name for money. Deng Tong was a favorite official of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Heng. Emperor Wen once gave Deng Tong a copper mine and made an exception to allow Deng Tong to mine and mint money. As a result, Deng Tong's money spread all over the world. Therefore, "Deng Tong" became another name for Qian in later generations.
9. King, also known as Lao Wang and Wang Lao, is another name for money. In the volume of "Duyi Zhi" by Li Jun of the Tang Dynasty: "The rich man Wang Yuanbao of the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzong asked him how much wealth he had? He said: 'I would like to tie a piece of string to a tree in Nanshan, your majesty. If the tree in Nanshan is gone, I will not be exhausted.' People at that time called money It is called 'king' because of the word 'Yuanbao'."
10. Goose eyes are also called "chicken eye money", Volume 168 of Sima Guang's "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" in the Northern Song Dynasty: "At the end of the Liang Dynasty, there was chaos, and iron money was not enough, so people used goose-eye money for private purposes. Jiazi, recast five baht coins, one worth ten goose-eye coins." In the Southern Dynasty and Song Dynasty, Shen Qingtong's privately minted money, one thousand coins was less than three inches long, and was It's called goose-eye money. Money worse than goose-eye money is called 綖 (pronounced yan yán) ring money. It does not sink when it enters the water and breaks easily. Merchants dare not use it.
11. The ancients rarely put coins directly in their pockets. The gold, silver and copper coins they carried when going out were usually placed in the belt used to tie the waist, and then the belt was wrapped around the waist. Therefore, It is called "window bag" (the same as today's "pocket"), so that it will neither be lost nor exposed. Referring to money, there is a story in ancient times about "riding a crane to Yangzhou with a hundred thousand guan in your pocket".
12. Copper stench originally means the stench of copper coins. It is often used to ridicule people who are only interested in profit, and also specifically refers to money. Sima Biao of the Western Jin Dynasty's "Jiuzhou Spring and Autumn": "Cui Lie, Tingweiqing. During the reign of Emperor Ling, he opened the Hongdu gate list to sell officials and titles. During Lie's reign, he paid five million and was awarded the title of Situ. When he paid homage to the sun, the emperor came to the mansion and all the officials were completed. Meeting. Emperor Gu said to the lucky man: "If you hate Xiao Jin, you can have tens of millions of people." Mrs. Cheng responded by saying, "Mr. Cui, a famous person in Jizhou, how can he buy an official position and rely on me to get it, but he doesn't know Shuxie?" " Lie asked his son Jun: "I live in Sangong, what do you think of me? "Jun Jun said: "It is rare for a gentleman to have a famous title, and he has been a minister of ministers. The commentator does not say that he should be regarded as the third prince. Now that he has ascended the throne, the world is disappointed. Lie said: "Why is that so?" Jun said: "The commentator thinks it smells like copper." "
13. "Fudozun" is called "Fudozun" to hide money without using it, just like the Buddha who lives peacefully without moving, but calls money "Fudozun". "Qing Yilu" written by Song Taotun: "There is something in Lang Jun's treasury." There are many bronzes that cannot be made into statues, but unfortunately they are rotten. "Money is made of copper, and many people call money "bronze" or "copper".
14. Banknotes originated in the Jin Dynasty. Our country is the first country in the world to use banknotes.
In the early years of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, with the prosperity of commerce and the expansion of transactions, the iron coins used at that time could no longer meet the needs of transactions, so 16 wealthy businessmen in Chengdu, Sichuan jointly issued a kind of paper currency, which was called "Jiaozi" at the time. ". The Jin Dynasty, which was roughly the same period as the Song Dynasty, also issued banknotes in 1154 AD. Jiaobao is a popular banknote circulation certificate in the Jin Dynasty. It was issued about 80 years ago. It once circulated in the Jin Dynasty and has always occupied a dominant position in the currency of the Jin Dynasty. It is also called Chaoyin and is divided into large banknotes and small banknotes. We now call banknotes banknotes or simply banknotes, which was passed down from that time.