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The standard ingot of China weighs about 50 taels (from 49 to 54) and, formerly called ting 鋌, is now called pao 寶 (jewel, article of value, as in the inscription on the copper cash tung-pao 通寶 = "current coin") and more commonly yuan-pao 元
the theory is that 1000 copper cash are equal to 10 silver and 1 gold.
The characters Kai yuan mean 'new beginning', while tong bao means 'circulating treasure' or 'coin'.
10. Archaeologists found artifacts at the site of a peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) from the Jiangkou stretch of the Minjiang River in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
10. Archaeologists found artifacts at the site of a peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) from the Jiangkou stretch of the Minjiang River in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
