| Physical currency is the earliest monetary form,and among all kinds of physical currency,the position of textiles is extremely important.Because textiles are daily necessities,which have a wide range of uses,and have certain value in themselves,they are willing to be accepted by people.In addition,the government has strict regulations on the production and circulation of fabrics,which can guarantee uniform specifications,so textiles have been widely used as currency in the Yellow River Basin for a long time.During the Warring States Period,the commodity economy developed greatly,and metal coins replaced cloth currency.The change of monetary form in Qin Dynasty also accords with this trend.The main currency in the monetary system has changed,and money has replaced cloth currency,but cloth was still used as currency 37 years ago and may continue to be used as currency after that.During the Warring States Period,textile was only one of the representative labor modes of peasant women,and it did not become a common and fixed job.The government is an important organization of Qin Dynasty textiles production.After collecting cocoons and pestles,the county is responsible for weaving ordinary textiles.Although the production of cloth coins is monopolized by the government,the specific weaving is local,and the county should be responsible for it.In the county,important real objects of land rent are collected,and then weavers are organized to use specific looms to produce cloth coins and put them into the market.Through the long-term institutional norms and policy guidance of successive governments since the Warring States Period and Qin Dynasty,textile performance has gradually become a common and fixed productive activity of peasant women since the middle and late Western Han Dynasty,and the output of textiles and silks has been greatly improved.Simple fabrics are often used in daily life,which are mainly produced by peasant women and have a fixed width,and corresponding kinds of fabrics have a fixed warp and weft density.Cloth has the natural advantage of being a medium of exchange,and there is also a large amount of cloth among the people.In real life,textiles really serve as the medium of exchange,play the general function as an economic means of circulation,and have a fixed purpose.The widespread use of copper coins among the people is closely related to the fact that the state forces money to pay taxes for the sake of simplicity and efficiency in financial collection,and money is a a means of national payment.The monetary economy is on the verge of collapse,and the increase of textiles production makes textiles replace copper money as a means of national payment in the late Eastern Han Dynasty to carry out the most basic and common payment behavior,which directly promoted the promotion of the status of textiles currency.The actual circulation of cloth coins in different regions is different,which needs specific investigation. |
