《尚书·盘庚》“中”篇有“兹予有乱政同位 ,具乃贝玉”一句。自“伪孔传”以来 ,多释为当时的贵族聚敛财富 ,“不念尽忠 ,但念贝玉而已” ,言其贪。治货币史者也常以此句说明商代以贝为币。这样的解释放在全文中上下不通。此处的贝玉不是指财富 ,而是指丧礼中为死者实口的葬具 ,即“饭含” ,比喻准备去死。这是盘庚用于劝导、吓唬贵族们的语言 ,与货币完全无关 “Book of Pan-Geng,” “in” articles are hereby given the same chaos politics, with a shellfish “sentence. Since ”Pseudo-Confucius Biography,“ many interpretations have been to enrich the wealth of the then aristocrats. Monetary history is also often used to illustrate this sentence to the shellfish as the currency. This explanation on the whole text does not work. Here is not the wealth of Pui Yu, but refers to the funeral of the deceased real mouth burial, that is, ”meal containing" analogy ready to die. This is the language used by Pan Geng to persuade and scare the nobility and has nothing to do with money