"Unearthing Gold" and Song People's Money

If you pay attention to the news that ancient coins were unearthed, the Song Dynasty has the most reports of Tibetan coins, and there have been several reports in the past two years. In February of this year, Quwo County in Shanxi Province unearthed 650 kilograms of Song money in the expansion of the South Street. In June 2006, the brickyard workers in Zhugang Village, Jiaozhuang Township, Xiping County, Henan Province discovered pottery figurines filled with more than 500 kilograms of ancient coins during the soil borrowing process, most of which were Song Dynasty coins. In July of the same year, about 30 tons of Song Dynasty coins were found on a construction site in Xin Town, Dongying District, Shandong Province, located in the Yellow River Delta. If you search for the news of the unearthed coins, you will find that the largest amount of unearthed is the Song Dynasty coins. In November 1967, Shiqiao Commune in Echeng County, Hubei Province, discovered a pile of ancient copper coins, and carried a total of 62 vehicles with a 4 ton truck, totaling around 300,000 jin. In 1995, Shenzhen unearthed a huge money in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the amount of copper coins reached 4 tons. In July 1997, people dug up a 48-ton iron money in Zhangzhou, and the words "Chongning Tongbao" and "Zhenghe Tongbao" on the coins were clearly identifiable. There was more news in the Song Dynasty when the coins were unearthed, and the coin lovers saw the most in the stalls, or Song Money. It seems that the title of "Tibetan Champion", the Song Dynasty people are well deserved.

The phenomenon of collecting coins in history is relatively common, but the reasons are not simple. Active in society, but also out of personal special ideas. From a social point of view, in the war years, the soldiers were rampant, and the gold and silver were buried in order to avoid looting. During the Taiping period, there were also many people who buried gold and silver, and their motives were often different. Greed and wealth is the most common. Song Hongmai’s "Yijian Zhiding" records that there is a soul of death who complained to Youyou: "After my death, my wife is remarried, and the child is weak, and there is no food. When I was born, the house was won by two hundred and two, buried under the house. I am willing to take care of my language and not to let my wife know." I want to come to my husband for a long time of losing trust, and then I will bury the money and tell him after death. There is also a type of buried gold and silver that is long-term for future generations or family members and has to temporarily conceal property.

But why are people in the Song Dynasty particularly keen on burying coins? Is it too much money to spend, or is there more miserables in the Song Dynasty than in other dynasties?

I read the notes of the Song people and found that the Song Dynasty people had a special cold for digging treasures from the soil. Su Shi’s "Kouchi Notes" is the volume of "Dongyou Rice Valley Dong Xuan": "The Jiangnan people are good at making a meal, and there are all the fresh oysters. They are buried in the rice, and they are buried in the rice." Ying Lao takes all the food and cooking, Minggu Dongjun. The poet Lu Daoshi out of a cloud: 'Invest in the Donggu pot in the valley, dig the rice bowl in the bowl.'" This kind of eating habit is the public expectation Reproduction. The anonymous "Jia Lian Yan Yu" once contained underground gold deposits as a woman's excavation story. It also contained: "Wu custom moved, pre-made rice, boiled under the pig's dirty. And enter the house, so that you can dig The name is 曰 曰 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 阖 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰 曰Get rich, Fulu has no boundaries. 'Digging the first to worship the gods and then eat." Song Dynasty people want to dig the gold and want to be crazy. In the Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo’s "Meng Xi Bi Tan" volume 20 has another record, which is in harmony with it: "Loss in the middle of the land in Tibet. Where the house is not excavated, it is excavated." Just as buying the gold price of the first place, "digging money" is also in its number. Buying a house actually has to "dig money" and become a regular case, which is common. Did the Song Dynasty people bury their coins in the ground because they believed in "collecting gold," and wanted to surprise future generations?

In fact, the most important reason for the people in the Song Dynasty to hide money is the copper money. Civil ruined copper coins can get 5 to 10 times the profits. At the same time, iron coins are heavily cast and banknotes are issued in large quantities, and their actual value is getting smaller and smaller, and the ratio with copper coins is constantly changing. The common people also do not want to make a loss of business. "Money" is not worth the money. It is better to store it as copper. Therefore, the people have to store more copper coins and are unwilling to circulate in the city. It seems that the Song Dynasty people have their own difficulties in hiding money. However, this really left the opportunity for future generations to "dig the gold."