How much is one or two pieces of silver equivalent to today in the Ming Dynasty?

according to the average rice price of 1.75 yuan/kg in 26. One or two ounces of silver is 2*94.4*2*1.75=66.8 yuan.

How much is one or two taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty equivalent to now? Also talk about the economic situation of the Ming Dynasty

Source: Liu Shucai's diary

I don't like watching TV at ordinary times. In the past few years, poor TV dramas have kept me away from TV. For example, women in ancient boudoir wore as little as modern women, and officers and men in Song Dynasty wore the armor of ancient Japanese soldiers, bought a steamed bread for one or two taels of silver, had a meal for twenty taels of silver, and so on ... Later, they liked to watch comedy videos, such as movies played by Stephen Chow. Once I watched Su Qier, the No.1 Scholar in the Martial Arts, I didn't know whether it was a transliteration or a mistake in the original text. Su Can's father gave his son pocket money: "They are all 12, pieces, so save some money. < P > How much is one or two pieces of silver equal to RMB? I once published an article on the price level of Wanli in Ming Dynasty on the Internet, but I didn't expect to be lucky enough to be reprinted in large quantities on the Internet. It seems that netizens not only want to be expressed by TV, but also want to see another expression. Now add some to write about the real wages, incomes and living standards of Ming people-look at the Ming Dynasty. After twenty-eight years of Hongwu, the price of rice transferred from the Ming Dynasty was basically one tael of silver to buy two taels of rice. "Ming History Food II": "So the household department decided: one ingot of banknotes, one stone of rice; One or two gold, ten stones; One silver, two stones. " One stone in the Ming Dynasty is about 94.4 kilograms now. According to the average rice price of 1.75 yuan/kg in 26. One or two ounces of silver is 2*94.4*2*1.75=66.8 yuan. It costs more than 66 yuan to buy a steamed bread on the side of a small street, which is too expensive.

the wages of people in the Ming dynasty. Firewood and firewood: the people have the obligation to serve the country, but they are paid for their service. It's the turn to serve, and it's sent to the footman of the official. The firewood and firewood are just to buy firewood and boil water and do odd jobs. The annual income is 2 Liang, which is 13,216 yuan. (In the Ming Dynasty, the state stipulated that Qipin Zhengtang could have four firewood-paid soaps, two county officials, two main books and one canon history; The above officials, each with a groom, the state pays wages. )

Groom: Driving horses for government civil servants, for business trips. The annual income is 4 Liang. It is 26,432 yuan per year.

county magistrate in Ming dynasty: Zhengqipin received a monthly salary of 7.5 stone or 45 taels of silver a year. The actual monthly income is 7.5 * 188.8 * 1.75 = 2,478 yuan. About 3, yuan per year. Other income: four firewood and one groom, and the wages of these five people are paid by the state. Official uniforms and pen and ink fees in winter and summer are subsidized by the state. When a new official takes office, he can also get 4 Liang of repair fees first. It seems that 45 taels of silver for a county magistrate in Qipin is almost the same as 4 taels of silver for a groom. (The salary of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty was really low, and the salary income of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty in the past dynasties was less. However, the expenses of housing, travel, smuggling personnel, food and clothing for county officials, canon history, etc. are basically paid and subsidized by the state, so the annual salary is basically net income, and the pen and ink expenses are fixed by the state, which is redundant. The groom doesn't have those benefits.

Student: "A liter of rice is cooked every day, and the fish salt acyl is given to it by the official." -"History of the Ming Dynasty, Food Records Six". Admitted to the scholar, each person will be given a liter of Mi Yue and 2 Jin a day (just enough for two people) and fish oil and salt. (Note: 1 liters in Ming Dynasty =1 bucket; 1 buckets =1 stone. ) In the Ming Dynasty, when the scholars were given preferential treatment, they could even get a meal fee of one tael of silver per month. However, the concept of students in the Ming Dynasty is not the current concept of students. Modern students can only be regarded as young students, and young students can only be regarded as "poor students" if they pass the examination of scholars and enter county schools. Therefore, scholars in the Ming Dynasty can live without working, but only eating "poor students" will be very poor, so they are called poor scholars.

The above is based on Wan Shu Zatan in Wanli of Ming Dynasty and Ming History in Kangxi of Qing Dynasty.

Street vendor selling oil: The annual income is about 2 taels. It is RMB 13,216. Feng Menglong wrote Sanyan from Wanli to the year of the Apocalypse. Among them, in Selling Oil Lang's Unique Flower, Qin only weighed 3 taels of silver. If you sell oil on the street for one year, you can still have 16 taels of silver left. "The interest earned every day is also frugal, and things are accumulated, and some daily household businesses and clothes are purchased. There is no waste." Excluding the annual expenditure, the remaining 16 Liang. So it is recorded as an annual income of 2 Liang.

Pig slayer: Fan Jin's father-in-law, Hu Tuhu, said to Fan Jin, a poor scholar, "It is serious to find a few taels of silver every year to support your old lady and your wife. You ask me to borrow travelling expenses. I kill a pig a day, but I still can't make money. I throw all my money with you in the water and call my family a northwest wind! " -"The Scholars". One dollar a day, three taels a month, and 36 taels a year. It seems that the income from killing pigs is almost equal to that of the groom. About 23789 yuan.

farmer: what is the income of farmers? Farmers "give fifteen acres of land and two acres of vegetable land." "The new cultivated land is rent-free for three years." Assuming that the ancient farming level is only 1/2 or 2/3 lower than that of the modern one, then farmers can earn about 25 or 35 kilograms of rice per mu. According to 3 kilograms, the south harvests two seasons a year and the north harvests one season a year. If you are diligent in good years, the average gross income of farmers in the south is 15,75, and that of farmers in the north is 7,875. Excluding farm tools, fertilizers, water conservancy expenses and taxes per mu (in the Ming Dynasty,

prices in the Ming dynasty (Wanli).

Ming dynasty price:

1 tael of rice and silver =2 stones, which is 377.6 Jin. RMB 1.75/kg.

First-class pork and silver is 1 yuan and 6 cents =8 kg, equivalent to 13.2 yuan/kg.

silver for top-grade mutton is 1 yuan and 2 cents =8 kg RMB 9.5 yuan/kg

silver for beef is 5 kg RMB 9.9 yuan/kg

silver for major carp is 1 yuan RMB 13.2/kg

silver for chestnuts is 6 cents and 5 cents RMB 8.6 yuan/kg

silver for live fat chicken is 4 cents RMB 26.4/kg <

a catty of cotton flowers costs 6 cents RMB 39.6/kg

a catty of high-grade red dates costs 225 yuan RMB 16.5/kg

I will try two handfuls of yellow silk umbrellas for six cents RMB 3 yuan/five handfuls of shovels for punishments for two cents and five cents RMB 33 yuan/a pair of

official longan weighs two catties, eight ounces and two cents and five cents RMB 29. When Yang Zhi sold knives in Tokyo in the novel Water Margin in the Ming Dynasty, Niu Er once said, "What kind of bird knives cost a lot of money! I buy a handful for thirty pence, and I also cut meat and tofu. " One or two pieces cost 1, Wen, and a kitchen knife costs 3 Wen about 2 yuan. Considering that there was no industrialized ironmaking at that time, the price of this kitchen knife is similar to ours now. Forty-fourth time when Dai Zhong Yang Lin invited Shi Xiu to dinner, Yang Lin threw out one or two pieces of silver for the store to serve tables casually. This 6-odd yuan is not enough in our hotel now, but it is indeed possible to serve food casually in a small wine house.

real estate price: "it can be said:' there is a vacant room for sale near the grave, for only fifty taels of silver. If you can buy his, it will be convenient to get there. " Chun Er collected fifty taels of silver to buy a house. "-"Sanyan Zhao Chuner Regards Cao Guzhuang "is a low-grade property with 5 two houses, about RMB 33,4. High mansion: more than 1 million. "Shi Xiaoshen was eager to sell, and he fell into the trap. The real estate was worth several thousand dollars. Guo Diaoer negotiated in the middle and estimated that it was only worth 4 gold." -"Sanyan, Gui Yuanwai Road Poor Repentance". It seems that the houses of the rich in the Ming Dynasty are really expensive.

price stability. In the early years and the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a price of one or two silvers to buy one stone of rice; in the orthodox years, there was a time when one or two silvers could buy four stones; in the chaos of Chongzhen Empire, there was a price of two or two stones. However, compared with the soaring prices at the end of the Republic of China, it was finally silver.