After Shennong's time, the Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun taught the people to farm and weave, with cloth and s…
After Shennong's time, the Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun taught the people to farm and weave, with cloth and silk serving as early currency. Later, wise ancestors refined this system: they mined copper, studied the patterns of heaven and earth, and cast the first coins—square within for the earth, round without for the sky. Even their shape echoed the cosmos.
Coins ease trade, endure through time, and circulate with a rhythm that mirrors nature itself. People came to cherish money, for without it one falls into hardship, and with it one gains strength. Those with money rise; those without fall behind.
In ancient China, the character for "money" once meant "spring," a source that never dries. It reaches places far and hidden, for money smooths all paths. Wisdom, bravery, talent—embellished with rites and music—once made the ideal person. Today, all one needs is money.