One or two ounces of silver in ancient times, how much is it now?

If one or two pieces of silver were compromised in ancient times, it would be equivalent to three or four thousand now. However, due to different ancient dynasties, different cultural changes and different calculation units of weight, the exact meaning of one or two pieces of silver also varies from dynasty to dynasty.

No matter now or in ancient times, the life of ordinary people is nothing more than money, and it is also a saying that people die for money and birds die for food. In ancient times, silver and copper coins were equivalent to today's banknotes and coins. There is often such a scene in the Water Margin, where a group of great people go to a pub to eat wine and shout at the top of their lungs that wine and meat are served. After eating, I took a few taels of silver out of my pocket and put it on the table, and then I left.

Because ancient dynasties often changed the productivity of each dynasty, the conversion of silver has been changing, and we can sort it out in the order of dynasties.

In the Tang dynasty, because the Tang dynasty was very prosperous, the rice of the generation that made the country rich and the people strong only needed five pence. One tael of silver is equivalent to 1 0,000 copper coins, equivalent to 1 tael of silver. You can buy 200 dou meters, and twelve taels are 20 stones and one stone. The Tang Dynasty stipulated 59 kilograms at a time. Even the current rice price is around 1.75. In this way, in ancient times, one or two pieces of silver was equivalent to 4 130 now.

In the Song Dynasty, one or two pieces of silver could buy almost 4-8 bags of rice, but the measuring tools in the Song Dynasty were different. In the Song Dynasty, a stone was 66 kilograms, so one or two ounces of silver was equivalent to the present 1.500 yuan. According to this rule, a stone of rice in Ming and Qing dynasties was 153.5 kg, but because we have different concepts of 500 grams per catty now, in Ming dynasty, their stone was 1.5 kg. So once the rice is about 93 kg, because the quality of rice is also good or bad, you can buy 186 kg of rice with an average of almost two pieces of silver.

In modern times, the price of rice tends to be stable because the productivity tends to be stable and developing continuously, so a kilo of rice is generally between 1.5 and 2.5. Let's take the average, and now the rice is1.7.5kg. If this is calculated again, it is equivalent to 650 in the Ming Dynasty. If you are incompetent, your monthly salary is only 3000. In ancient times, you might only earn five taels of silver a month.