Transcript Shanghai Museum Silk Road Coins Exhibit

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• A Ming portrait, now
in the Nanjing
Museum, of the
official Jiang Shunfu
(1453–1504). The
decoration of two
cranes on his chest
indicates that he
was a civil official of
the first rank.
From 605 until 1905 the Imperial Examination system determined who
would enter the Chinese civil service. Examination cells, Guangdong,
1873
•
Peasant Farmer
In 2004,the Shanghai Museum put
together an exhibit of coins from
places along the old Silk Roads.
These coins reflect the areas they
came from in both language and
designs.
Zhou Imperial Cast Coins
770-256 BCE
Chinese cast bronze coins in a spade form
with a hollow handle emerged no later than
the Spring & Autumn period (770-476 BCE)
The Zhou royal family cast & used flat or
hollow handled spade coins until the Warring
States Period (475-221 BCE) Then they
began to cast square footed spade coins
Jin Coins
cast bronze
Soldiers
• Make a man out of you.
Ming dynasty (1400's AD)
painting by Tang Yin
Women
In theSung Dynasty, about 1100
AD, a fashion started at the
emperor's court for women to bind
their feet. Women
Late Shang bronze pitcher from Henan,
about 1100 BC, with inscription
(Musee Guimet, Paris)