There are often readers who complain about the silver problem in this book, thinking that the price in the book is too high.

In fact, before writing the web record, I went to check the information on purpose.

Although this book is an alternate history, it is based on the Ming Dynasty.

How much is one tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty equal to now?

The answer is: 660 yuan

You may not believe the answer, but it's the real data.

Some people say that when Chi Fei was an apprentice in Dongsheng Rice Shop, three taels of silver per month was too high.

But think clearly, if one tael of silver is only equivalent to more than 600 yuan, then three taels of silver is 1,980 yuan.

The capital of the Great Wei Dynasty is equivalent to modern Beijing, and a person working in Beijing has a monthly salary of only 1,980 yuan.

Therefore, when Chi Fei was an apprentice at that time, the salary of three taels of silver per month was really not high.

And an experienced bookkeeper is very normal for a monthly salary of more than ten taels (calculated according to fifteen taels), which is 9,900 yuan when converted into RMB.

A senior financial accountant working in Beijing, this salary should be reasonable.

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In ancient times, a tael of silver was equal to how much RMB is there today?

In ancient times, many people have no idea how much a tael of silver was worth. Especially in contemporary TV dramas, there are two steamed buns and a bowl of soup for 5 taels of silver, a young grandmother loses 10 million taels of silver in a gamble, and other absurd plots, showing how ignorant and unserious the current Chinese creators are, you must know that the annual income of the treasury during the Wanli period only reached 2 million taels, and it is also a figure that only has the rich treasury income after Zhang Juzheng's reform.

Even masters like Jin Yong don't seem to have conducted in-depth research on the monetary value of the silver taels. Everyone should remember that Guo Jing met Huang Rong for the first time and was slaughtered by her, and the result was "a checkout in a while, a total of 1927 yuan and 4 cents".

If you look at some ancient books, you can find that the monetary value of one or two pieces of silver is actually quite high

In "Dream of Red Mansions", Grandma Liu saw a meal of crabs in Jiafu for 24 taels of silver, and sighed that the small family could live for a year. You must know that Grandma Liu's family was also middle-class at that time, she had a house and land and could afford to hire a worker, and the first time she went to Jiafu to fight the autumn breeze, she got 20 taels of silver, and she was very grateful.

In the "History of the Ming Dynasty", it is mentioned that the legitimate salary (basic salary) of Qipinzhi County for a year is only 45 taels of silver. In the era of "Shooting the Condor" in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, the circulation of silver was lower than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and its value could only be higher.

Because the monetary value of silver in each dynasty is different, the value of ancient currency is now generally calculated by means of general equivalent exchange, and for the Chinese, the livelihood commodity that has remained unchanged for thousands of years is rice. The following is a rough estimation based on the rice price records of the Taiping period, and the monetary value of silver taels can be roughly obtained.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy two stones of rice of general quality, and one stone at that time was about 94.4 kilograms, and one tael of silver could buy 188.8 kilograms of rice, which was 377.6 catties. At present, the average family in China eats rice between 1.5 yuan and 2 yuan per catty, and the median price of 1.75 yuan can be calculated: 660.8 yuan

Since the story of "Dream of Red Mansions" is based on the Qing Dynasty, the living conditions are based on the Ming Dynasty, and based on the value of silver taels in the Ming Dynasty, Grandma Liu got more than 13,000 yuan for the New Year, of course, she is very happy; And Guo Jing paid more than 12,000 yuan for a meal, or in a small place like Zhangjiakou, it's too exaggerated. Guo Jing is stupid, but he was born poor, it is impossible not to know the value of money, and it is even more impossible for Huang Rong to be slaughtered by the store.

If these two pieces of silver were to be obtained in the Tang Dynasty, the purchasing power would be even more frighteningly high. Tang Taizong Zhenguan period material civilization is greatly rich, a bucket of rice only sells for 5 yuan, usually a tael of silver folded 1000 copper coins (also known as consistent), you can buy 200 buckets of rice, 10 buckets for a stone, that is, 20 stones, a stone in the Tang Dynasty is about 59 kilograms, with today's general rice price of 1.75 yuan a catty, a tael of silver is equivalent to 4130 yuan of purchasing power.

During the first century of Tang Xuanzong, the price of rice rose to 10 wen per bucket, 065 yuan.

According to the "History of the Song Dynasty" mentioning that "before Xi and Feng, rice and stone were only six or seven hundred" and "Song History and Official Chronicles" "each bucket (rice) is converted into 30 Wen", let's take 2,000 copper coins into one tael of silver, the price of rice in the Taiping period is money (one tael of silver and one stone of rice from before and after the Jingkang Rebellion to the early Southern Song Dynasty is not within the normal calculation range). 1 tael can basically buy 4-8 stone of rice, calculated by 66 kilograms of Song stone, 1 tael of silver is equivalent to nearly RMB yuan; (One said that Song Shi is 96 catties, which is equivalent to 1 tael of silver dollars). Assuming that the price of silver in the Southern Song Dynasty is about the same as that of the Northern Song Dynasty, then Guo Jing invited Huang Rong to eat as little as 13,000 or more than 30,000 yuan in one meal, no wonder the little girl was suddenly moved.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the purchase value of silver taels was slightly lower than that of the Ming Dynasty, but due to the influx of a large number of foreign silver taels into China in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, according to statistics, more than 70 percent of the world's silver production every year before the Opium War was used to buy porcelain, silk, tea and other products produced in China, and the monetary value of silver taels fell to less than one-third of that of the Ming Dynasty, about 00 yuan. At that time, in addition to the traditional Chinese "silver liang", silver coins from Western countries also appeared in the currency, which was called "Yinyang".

To sum up, on the question of "how much is a tael of silver worth?", the conclusion that can basically be drawn is:

One tael of silver is worth RMB

around the middle and late Yuan Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty;

Middle Yuan of the Ming Dynasty;

the middle Yuan (or Yuan) of the Northern Song Dynasty;

During the Tang Dynasty.

It should be added that before the Song Dynasty, the total amount of silver was too small and the value was too high, and it had not yet become a circulating currency (think about it, take a banknote with a denomination of more than 2,000 yuan and go to the market to buy something...... In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, copper coins were used in market circulation (paper money appeared in some parts of the Northern Song Dynasty).

The silver taels became the currency in circulation only after the foreign trade of the Ming and Qing dynasties was active, and a large influx of foreign silver was there. But why in the minds of many people have always thought that silver is the currency of circulation, the author believes that it is mainly because of the prevalence of the Ming and Qing dynasties, are in accordance with the living conditions at that time for the common sense of the previous dynasties to describe, such as "Water Margin", "Three Words and Two Beats" and so on, and the value of silver in these works are based on the silver price of the Ming Dynasty as the standard, and the original Wen, Guan, Xuan, Baht and other monetary units are mixed together, and have a great impact on later generations, so people today write more history and martial arts works such as "Shooting the Condor" with ancient China as the background and other books also said that the ancient currency in circulation was all "silver taels".

But after all, modern people are farther away from the people of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and their understanding of the monetary system of the previous dynasties and the actual purchasing power of the silver taels is even more insufficient, so there will often be sky-high steamed buns, sky-high prices of wine and food, and serious readers or viewers should have a clearer understanding of the value of the "silver taels" out of curiosity about the ancient economic situation.

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In ancient times, a tael of silver was equal to how much RMB is there today?

In ancient times, many people have no idea how much a tael of silver was worth. Especially in contemporary TV dramas, there are two steamed buns and a bowl of soup for 5 taels of silver, a young grandmother loses 10 million taels of silver in a gamble, and other absurd plots, showing how ignorant and unserious the current Chinese creators are, you must know that the annual income of the treasury during the Wanli period only reached 2 million taels, and it is also a figure that only has the rich treasury income after Zhang Juzheng's reform.

Even masters like Jin Yong don't seem to have conducted in-depth research on the monetary value of the silver taels. Everyone should remember that Guo Jing met Huang Rong for the first time and was slaughtered by her, and the result was "a checkout in a while, a total of 1927 yuan and 4 cents".

If you look at some ancient books, you can find that the monetary value of one or two pieces of silver is actually quite high

In "Dream of Red Mansions", Grandma Liu saw a meal of crabs in Jiafu for 24 taels of silver, and sighed that the small family could live for a year. You must know that Grandma Liu's family was also middle-class at that time, she had a house and land and could afford to hire a worker, and the first time she went to Jiafu to fight the autumn breeze, she got 20 taels of silver, and she was very grateful.

In the "History of the Ming Dynasty", it is mentioned that the legitimate salary (basic salary) of Qipinzhi County for a year is only 45 taels of silver. In the era of "Shooting the Condor" in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, the circulation of silver was lower than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and its value could only be higher.

Because the monetary value of silver in each dynasty is different, the value of ancient currency is now generally calculated by means of general equivalent exchange, and for the Chinese, the livelihood commodity that has remained unchanged for thousands of years is rice. The following is a rough estimation based on the rice price records of the Taiping period, and the monetary value of silver taels can be roughly obtained.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy two stones of rice of general quality, and one stone at that time was about 94.4 kilograms, and one tael of silver could buy 188.8 kilograms of rice, which was 377.6 catties. At present, the average family in China eats rice between 1.5 yuan and 2 yuan per catty, and the median price of 1.75 yuan can be calculated: 660.8 yuan

Since the story of "Dream of Red Mansions" is based on the Qing Dynasty, the living conditions are based on the Ming Dynasty, and based on the value of silver taels in the Ming Dynasty, Grandma Liu got more than 13,000 yuan for the New Year, of course, she is very happy; And Guo Jing paid more than 12,000 yuan for a meal, or in a small place like Zhangjiakou, it's too exaggerated. Guo Jing is stupid, but he was born poor, it is impossible not to know the value of money, and it is even more impossible for Huang Rong to be slaughtered by the store.

If these two pieces of silver were to be obtained in the Tang Dynasty, the purchasing power would be even more frighteningly high. Tang Taizong Zhenguan period material civilization is greatly rich, a bucket of rice only sells for 5 yuan, usually a tael of silver folded 1000 copper coins (also known as consistent), you can buy 200 buckets of rice, 10 buckets for a stone, that is, 20 stones, a stone in the Tang Dynasty is about 59 kilograms, with today's general rice price of 1.75 yuan a catty, a tael of silver is equivalent to 4130 yuan of purchasing power.

During the first century of Tang Xuanzong, the price of rice rose to 10 wen per bucket, 065 yuan.

According to the "History of the Song Dynasty" mentioning that "before Xi and Feng, rice and stone were only six or seven hundred" and "Song History and Official Chronicles" "each bucket (rice) is converted into 30 Wen", let's take 2,000 copper coins into one tael of silver, the price of rice in the Taiping period is money (one tael of silver and one stone of rice from before and after the Jingkang Rebellion to the early Southern Song Dynasty is not within the normal calculation range). 1 tael can basically buy 4-8 stone of rice, calculated by 66 kilograms of Song stone, 1 tael of silver is equivalent to nearly RMB yuan; (One said that Song Shi is 96 catties, which is equivalent to 1 tael of silver dollars). Assuming that the price of silver in the Southern Song Dynasty is about the same as that of the Northern Song Dynasty, then Guo Jing invited Huang Rong to eat as little as 13,000 or more than 30,000 yuan in one meal, no wonder the little girl was suddenly moved.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the purchase value of silver taels was slightly lower than that of the Ming Dynasty, but due to the influx of a large number of foreign silver taels into China in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, according to statistics, more than 70 percent of the world's silver production every year before the Opium War was used to buy porcelain, silk, tea and other products produced in China, and the monetary value of silver taels fell to less than one-third of that of the Ming Dynasty, about 00 yuan. At that time, in addition to the traditional Chinese "silver liang", silver coins from Western countries also appeared in the currency, which was called "Yinyang".

To sum up, on the question of "how much is a tael of silver worth?", the conclusion that can basically be drawn is:

One tael of silver is worth RMB

around the middle and late Yuan Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty;

Middle Yuan of the Ming Dynasty;

the middle Yuan (or Yuan) of the Northern Song Dynasty;

During the Tang Dynasty.

It should be added that before the Song Dynasty, the total amount of silver was too small and the value was too high, and it had not yet become a circulating currency (think about it, take a banknote with a denomination of more than 2,000 yuan and go to the market to buy something...... In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, copper coins were used in market circulation (paper money appeared in some parts of the Northern Song Dynasty).

The silver taels became the currency in circulation only after the foreign trade of the Ming and Qing dynasties was active, and a large influx of foreign silver was there. But why in the minds of many people have always thought that silver is the currency of circulation, the author believes that it is mainly because of the prevalence of the Ming and Qing dynasties, are in accordance with the living conditions at that time for the common sense of the previous dynasties to describe, such as "Water Margin", "Three Words and Two Beats" and so on, and the value of silver in these works are based on the silver price of the Ming Dynasty as the standard, and the original Wen, Guan, Xuan, Baht and other monetary units are mixed together, and have a great impact on later generations, so people today write more history and martial arts works such as "Shooting the Condor" with ancient China as the background and other books also said that the ancient currency in circulation was all "silver taels".

But after all, modern people are farther away from the people of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and their understanding of the monetary system of the previous dynasties and the actual purchasing power of the silver taels is even more insufficient, so there will often be sky-high steamed buns, sky-high prices of wine and food, and serious readers or viewers should have a clearer understanding of the value of the "silver taels" out of curiosity about the ancient economic situation.

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In ancient times, a tael of silver was equal to how much RMB is there today?

In ancient times, many people have no idea how much a tael of silver was worth. Especially in contemporary TV dramas, there are two steamed buns and a bowl of soup for 5 taels of silver, a young grandmother loses 10 million taels of silver in a gamble, and other absurd plots, showing how ignorant and unserious the current Chinese creators are, you must know that the annual income of the treasury during the Wanli period only reached 2 million taels, and it is also a figure that only has the rich treasury income after Zhang Juzheng's reform.

Even masters like Jin Yong don't seem to have conducted in-depth research on the monetary value of the silver taels. Everyone should remember that Guo Jing met Huang Rong for the first time and was slaughtered by her, and the result was "a checkout in a while, a total of 1927 yuan and 4 cents".

If you look at some ancient books, you can find that the monetary value of one or two pieces of silver is actually quite high

In "Dream of Red Mansions", Grandma Liu saw a meal of crabs in Jiafu for 24 taels of silver, and sighed that the small family could live for a year. You must know that Grandma Liu's family was also middle-class at that time, she had a house and land and could afford to hire a worker, and the first time she went to Jiafu to fight the autumn breeze, she got 20 taels of silver, and she was very grateful.

In the "History of the Ming Dynasty", it is mentioned that the legitimate salary (basic salary) of Qipinzhi County for a year is only 45 taels of silver. In the era of "Shooting the Condor" in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, the circulation of silver was lower than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and its value could only be higher.

Because the monetary value of silver in each dynasty is different, the value of ancient currency is now generally calculated by means of general equivalent exchange, and for the Chinese, the livelihood commodity that has remained unchanged for thousands of years is rice. The following is a rough estimation based on the rice price records of the Taiping period, and the monetary value of silver taels can be roughly obtained.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy two stones of rice of general quality, and one stone at that time was about 94.4 kilograms, and one tael of silver could buy 188.8 kilograms of rice, which was 377.6 catties. At present, the average family in China eats rice between 1.5 yuan and 2 yuan per catty, and the median price of 1.75 yuan can be calculated: 660.8 yuan

Since the story of "Dream of Red Mansions" is based on the Qing Dynasty, the living conditions are based on the Ming Dynasty, and based on the value of silver taels in the Ming Dynasty, Grandma Liu got more than 13,000 yuan for the New Year, of course, she is very happy; And Guo Jing paid more than 12,000 yuan for a meal, or in a small place like Zhangjiakou, it's too exaggerated. Guo Jing is stupid, but he was born poor, it is impossible not to know the value of money, and it is even more impossible for Huang Rong to be slaughtered by the store.

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