You should have seen the ancient TV series and know that the ancient monetary unit was silver. In the past, silver was a valuable currency. When the ancients needed to buy what they needed, they would take out a piece of silver, but this piece of silver was equivalent to 1000 pence. But have you found that there was so much money in ancient times, why is it gone now? Let's hear what archaeologists have to say.

Although silver coins are widely used in TV dramas, in fact, they are not available to poor families. They may need to work for a long time to get such a piece of silver. So the money is in some rich families or the government/treasury, and everyone is actually cheated by TV dramas.

Secondly, silver has another purpose besides buying things. That is, after the death of some prominent people, these silverware and jewels will be buried underground with them. If members of the royal family die, it is even harder to imagine the large amount of silver and jewelry buried with them. Moreover, silver cannot be preserved underground for a long time, so there is less and less silver now.

There is also an external reason, that is, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the "closed door" policy of the Qing government, our country lagged behind other countries for a long time, and Eight-Nation Alliance took the opportunity to attack the Qing Dynasty. As a last resort, we have to give up our land and compensate them with gold and silver. Everyone should have studied history. At that time, the amount of gold and silver we compensated was huge.

For whatever reason, silver was once a part of China's monetary history. We should keep this history in mind and always push ourselves.