Silver is also called silver. Compared with gold, silver is a precious metal with a long history of application in ancient times. This special metal has long been known. Silver has been used in ancient China for about 4000 years. The ancients usually called silver, gold and copper the only three products of gold.
Until the Qing Dynasty, silver was still a very popular large denomination currency. Today, one or two ounces of silver is equivalent to 400-500 yuan RMB. Even if silver was not used in the Republic of China, it was replaced by silver dollars, but the form changed. This shows that silver was widely used in ancient times.
Silver is extremely malleable. Like gold, it can be shaped into any shape in the palace. The thinnest silver can be rolled into a transparent foil with a thickness of only 0.3 micron. The finest silver, with a weight of 1g, can be drawn into filaments of about 2km. It is precisely because of this characteristic of silver that in ancient times, besides being used as currency, silver was often made into jewelry, tableware and so on.
Saying so much is nothing more than telling you that the ductility of silver determines its strong plasticity. Frankly speaking, silver is a soft object, and it is easy to leave traces of collision. As for why the silverware is covered with tooth marks, it is easy to explain.
You know, in ancient times, there were no such advanced detection tools as modern ones. The quickest way to judge whether silver is true or false is to bite it with your teeth. If a bite leaves a mark, it means it's true. Although this method is simple and rough, it is also very suitable. Biting silver to distinguish between true and false is passed down from generation to generation.
Therefore, ancient silverware looks not so smooth and beautiful, and it is full of pits and dents. The ugliness of ancient silver is not only that, but also its luster is not good. The longer it is used, the uglier it becomes. So, don't be fooled by TV dramas. Ancient silverware is a bit ugly. The silver in the TV drama is only a prop made to enhance the visual effect.