Culture Research About Ancient Folk Numismatics

Folk Numismatics is a branch of ancient coins. For the purpose of auspicious, Folk Numismatics Made in seaever kinds of metals is considered a special one y-shaped object. As a mascot, he folk coins is widely circulated in folk. Long history, profound connotation and unique function ARE representatives of Folk Numismatics. Affected by the lifestyle and thinking of the civil society concept, Folk Numismatics is a true reflection of the objective social along the historical and social development process. Exploring the Folk Numismatics cultural connotations, can both inheritant the traditional culture and care for folklore reality.In this paper, the culture of Folk Numismatics is divided into three parts:First of all, five stages on behalf of the Folk Numismatics evolution according to the folk coin shapes, texture, pattern changes and the use the coins. Characteristics summarized:Before the Song and Yuan dynasties, the development of folk coins highly attached to the currency circulation, the development and degeneration of coin casting are also the reflection of folk coins developing; After the Song and Yuan dynasties,the phenomenon of simple imitation to the shape of the circulation currency is regularly faded away, insteaded by the emergence of alienation in all aspects.Secondly, researching from the Confucian ideology, the religious beliefs of Buddhism and Taoism, the traditional folk customs and the aesthetic ideas of the acients, we can draw a conclution that folk coin is a series of cultural phenomenon in cluding substantial and spiritual fields, formed by the combination of customs and coins from the general public.(as opposed to official series of substances)during the social life. Durning the heritage and development process, the unique coins culture formed which culture purly belongs to circulational currency. Folk Numismatics is a kind of culture not only from people’s thinking, awareness, consciousness and ideas, but also a civil social ideology derived from the coins entity and the fuction itself spreaded widely beyond.Finally, the papes analysis the modern value of Folk Numismatics in a simple level, which can be especially reflected on cultural, economic, and social fields.