Tri milenijuma kineske monetarne epigrafike
Three Millenniums of Chinese Monetary Epigraphic

Summary/Abstract: Monetary and mercantile culture, with all the positive and negative consequences they bring, have always played a great role in Chinese civilization, and today that role is probably greater than ever before. The spirit of the Chinese nation, which is usually observed first of all as proverbially philosophical and contemplative, has simultaneously through history shown a great sense for the practical organization of economy and finance. The shape of the Chinese coin, which harmoniously united the geometric figures of the circle and the square, was perceived as a symbolic cosmological validation of the great social and practical importance of money, and thus a specifically Chinese form of a cult was created, in which money obtained divine attributes.

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