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There is a saying in the scriptures: "There is no difficulty in meeting yin and yang, one mountain and one water are nothing to say; wealth and poverty lie in the god of water, and water is the essence of the blood of the mountain family." There is a core concept in Chinese Feng Shui - storing wind and gathering energy. Water is the best.
It means that if a place has neither water nor wind, it is easy to be blown by the wind and flooded, and the aura is scattered without harvesting. Therefore, when the ancients chose places to live, most of them chose places with meandering water.
Beiguanfang is the most treasured place in the city with a "jade belt around the waist".
[1] "The Occasional Completion of the Temple of Mercy-Shangque" by Li Dongyang. Poetry
The best landscape in the city,
How many idle years in the world;
When will the dream and soul forget this place,
Whose home does the old scenery belong to?
Yougan said to Qingwan: "It's getting late, shall we go shopping for clothes?"
"Can't you go by yourself, I'll sit here for a while." Qing Wan said lazily, she was indeed a little tired after walking for a day.
"You don't buy clothes anymore?"
"You can buy it for me!"
"Why don't you choose by yourself?"
"I really can't walk anymore." People are like this, once they stop, they don't want to move anymore.
The friend asked with a dry smile: "Why don't I carry you over like I did when I was a child?"
"You have a good idea!" After finishing speaking, Qing Wan jumped up immediately, and followed Zhen Youqian onto the bridge.
There were still many people on the bridge, and Qingwan was afraid that she would be squeezed out, so she held Sumitomo's hand tightly.
Yougan said: "Do you know what it means for the men and women who walk across the Chilan Bridge hand in hand!"
"What does it mean?"
"There is an old saying that if two lovers walk across the Chilan Bridge hand in hand, they will spend their lives loving each other!"
Qing Wan hurriedly let go, "You lied~"
"I won't lie to you!" You Gan told her, "Every year on the night of the New Year's Eve, which is Valentine's Day, a large-scale lantern festival is held here. Young men and women meet here and walk across the Chilan Bridge hand in hand, which heralds The two of you will spend your whole life loving each other in the future"
"Nonsense!" Qing Wan said, "Now, on this bridge, so many men and women have crossed this Chilan Bridge. Do you dare to say that they walked together? Maybe, after crossing the bridge, they will go their separate ways. something."
"The key people didn't hold hands, you held mine!"
"I got caught by accident."
"This inadvertence is fate."
"Who is destined to be with you!"
"Why, don't you want to spend the rest of your life with me?"
Qingwan didn't answer, but pinched Yougan's sleeve with two fingers.
After crossing the bridge, at the head of Beiguanfang Hutong, there was a seller of candied haws.
The friend smiled dryly, "How old are you, and you're still greedy." After finishing speaking, she took out a penny and gave it to the candied haws seller, and asked Qingwan to pick one up for herself.
Qingwan raised the height, took the top one, took a quick bite, and said, "Isn't it indecent for a girl my age to eat a candied haws in the street?"
"What do you think?" You Gan told her, "However, there are few people in the alley, if they want to laugh, you can let them laugh There is a saying, if a big girl eats sour gourd, whoever likes to mutter can mutter."
Qingwan brought the candied haws to Yougan's mouth and said, "Try one too."
You Gan opened his mouth and bit one, and said, "It seems that you still have me in your heart."
"Hmph!" Qing Wan curled her lips, "I want you to accompany me to embarrass myself!"
This North Official House Hutong is winding and narrow, and most of the houses are simple in color. Since most of them are official houses, there are also many carved decorations.
Such mansions are now used as cloth markets, fur markets, satin markets, and hat markets These markets are distributed according to different alleys, and clothing stores are also listed in them, making the storefronts in each alley continuous.
Many imported goods are also sold here, causing people of all colors to flock here, shoulder to shoulder, and vehicles to come and go.
Qingwan ate with her mouth full, and at this time, she didn't spare her small cherry mouth at all, and even disregarded her image, she asked while eating: "My familywasuuthisarea? "
"Swallow it down before talking, and you will choke again" Seeing her swallowing again, Yougan said, "Ah, eat slowly! No one will fight with youdon't talk, I will?? Immediately, another thick album was handed over to Qing Wan, "This is a new design for the Spring Festival this year. Yes, there are still ready-made clothes in the sample room. Miss can go in and try them on."
Qing Wan opened the picture album, and immediately her eyes lit up. Moreover, every time I turn a page, my eyes light up, like that, I want to wear every piece.
After about three quarters of an hour, six styles were finally selected, and the tailor and the group of girls followed Qing Wan into the fitting room.
Yougan drank the pot of tea for a whole day before the little girl came out with Qingwan.
Qing Wan said a little unhappy: "The tailor said that only two sets can be made in the first year, and the rest will be picked up in the first month."
Yougan said to the little girl, "Call your shopkeeper."
Soon, the proprietress came, "Senior official, what do you want to call the young lady over?"
You Gan said: "I will pick up my six sets of clothes for the big collection on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month! Can you make them?"
"This, this, senior officials, the key is that there is a lot of work at the end of the year, and I am really too busy"
"Stop it, stop it, I'll add more money, and hurry up!" After that, Youqian paid a 1 guan large-denomination note[1] as a deposit.
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Notes
[1] Hand over banknotes
Banknotes are referred to as "notes" for short, the names of banknotes in Jin Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty. The issuance of paper money in the Jin Dynasty was earlier than that of copper coins. After Hailing Wang Zhenyuan moved his capital to Yanjing in the second year of Zhenyuan (1154), because of the lack of copper in the country, he imitated Jiaozi in the Northern Song Dynasty and issued banknotes. There are two kinds of banknotes handed over in the Jin Dynasty: large banknotes and small banknotes. There are five denominations of banknotes: 1 guan, 2 guan, 3 guan, 5 guan and 10 guan. There are five types of small notes: 100 Wen, 200 Wen, 300 Wen, 500 Wen, and 700 Wen. With a limit of 7 years, new banknotes will be issued upon expiration. The old banknotes are exchanged for new banknotes, and the ink fee is 15 Wen per pass (after several changes). In the twenty-ninth year of King Sejong's reign (1189), the 7-year reform system was abolished, and banknotes were exchanged only after handing over banknotes.
After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the "Zhongtong Yuanbao Banknote" is the earliest existing banknote officially printed and issued by the government.
(1) History
The history of Chinese banknotes began with "flying money" in the Tang Dynasty. According to textual research, the origin of "feiqian" came into being with the rise and development of industry and commerce in the Tang Dynasty. The development of transportation further promoted the prosperity of trade. , Initiated the pure paper currency system in the world. In the following dynasties, paper money and metal currency were used together.
(2) Jin Dynasty period
At the beginning of the founding of the Jin Dynasty, the coins of the Song and Liao Dynasties were used instead of minted or printed. After King Jin Hailing moved his capital to Yanjing in 1153, in order to strengthen his control over the economy, on June 27, 1154 (Ding Yu in May of the second year of Jin Zhenyuan), Cai Songnian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was ordered to preside over the printing of banknotes, which is called handing over banknotes. There is a banknote bank in Yanjing, which is responsible for the printing, exchange and management of banknotes.
At the beginning of the issuance of banknotes, there was still restraint, which promoted the development of the commodity economy in the area ruled by gold. With the escalation of the Jin Dynasty's invasion of the Song Dynasty, military expenditures increased and financial resources were insufficient, so the issuance of banknotes increased greatly. As a result, the value of banknotes depreciated again and again, and the vicious inflation caused the people to "complain and gather in the market", and merchants went on strike. The gold ruler had to enforce the use of cash by decree. At that time, ordinary citizens "collected money (referring to metal currency) and used it sparingly, fearing that it would break and be discarded." The fate of banknotes such as "Baocha", "Tongbao", "Baoquan" and "Zhenhuo" issued after the Jin Dynasty moved south to Kaifeng also had a similar fate.
(3) Yuan Dynasty
?Using paper currency as the main currency, and the large-scale circulation of paper money across the country, began in the Yuan Dynasty, and only the Yuan Dynasty adopted a pure paper money circulation system. After Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan established his capital in Shangducheng, he followed the suggestion of the founding military adviser Liu Bingzhong to issue banknotes.
In order to maintain the legal status of banknotes, the Yuan Dynasty adopted a number of measures: prohibiting the circulation of heavy metals such as gold, silver, and copper; stopping the use of old Mongolian banknotes; the central unified banknotes can be exchanged for Southern Song banknotes, and it is also stipulated that all taxes should be paid in banknotes.
The Yuan Dynasty abolished the value standard based on copper coins in the past dynasties, and adopted a pure banknote circulation system, which created a banknote issuance system with "silver" as the reserve fund for later generations, that is, the silver standard system, using banknotes as legal tender. The Great Yuan Dynasty traversed Europe and Asia.
At that time, the Ilkhanate of Persia, India, Korea, Japan and other countries all imitated the Yuan Dynasty to print paper money. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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