“人民币”是在特定的历史背景下命名的,它沿用了解放区银行名加“币”字而成货币名称的传统。随着经济、社会的发展,人民币名称的缺陷逐渐显露。本文首先对人民币名称的缺陷进行了理性的分析,然后在对货币进行法律定性的基础上,对人民币改称“中元”的法理进行了初步的探讨。 “Renminbi” is named after a specific historical background. It follows the tradition that the name of the bank in the liberated area plus the “currency” is the currency name. With the economic and social development, the shortcomings of the renminbi name gradually revealed. This paper first makes a rational analysis of the defects of the renminbi name, and then carries out a preliminary discussion on the renminbi renaming “Zhong Yuan” based on the legal characterization of the currency.