中国是纸币的发源地,随着近代社会的发展,纸币成为银行支付、结算、汇兑和流通的主要手段。自民国以来到新中国成立,中国纸币的发行历经了一个畸形发展阶段,除了国家银行发行法定的货币外,另有商业银行、地方银行、革命根据地、地方军阀、私人钱庄银号以及傀儡政府、外国军队、外国在华银行等发行了品种繁多,数额庞大的各类纸币,如今这些纸币对于收藏家还是对于研究者来说为研究货币的产生发展变化;并要将对货币研究放在其特定的历史之中,去研究其产生的社会经济条 China is the birthplace of banknotes. With the development of modern society, banknotes have become the main means of bank payment, settlement, exchange and circulation. Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China to the founding of New China, the issuance of Chinese paper money has gone through a stage of abnormal development. Apart from the legal currency issued by the State Bank, commercial banks, local banks, revolutionary bases, local warlords, private banking institutions and the puppet government, Foreign armies, foreign banks in China and other issues of a large variety of large amounts of all kinds of notes, and now these notes for collectors or for researchers to study the development of the currency changes; and will put monetary research on its specific Of the history, to study the social and economic terms