货币是商品生产和商品交换的产物,是人类经济活动的历史见证。货币的产生、发展历史,是人类文明演进史的一部分,是整个人类政治经济活动的生动展示。货币是传承人类文化的载体,是一种物化了的文化。货币虽无声,但它凝聚着古人的艺术思想、审美情趣、思维特点、行为方式等内涵。中国是世界上最早发明和使用货币的国家,从商朝的贝币算起,距今已有近四千年的历史,比文字的起源还 Money is the product of commodity production and exchange of goods, is the historical testimony of human economic activities. The generation and development history of money is part of the history of the evolution of human civilization and is a vivid display of the entire political and economic activities of mankind. Money is the carrier of heritage of human culture, is a materialized culture. Although the currency is silent, it embodies the connotation of the ancients’ artistic thought, aesthetic taste, thinking characteristics and behavior style. As the earliest country in the world to invent and use currency, China has been in the process of counting nearly four thousand years since the Shang dynasty,