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OP: Why couldn’t traditional Chinese Yinpiao银票/silver drafts be forged if they were merely slips of paper? (cr大明宝钞，渐越)

Traditional Chinese yinpiao/silver drafts were paper vouchers issued by private banks starting from the Song Dynasty(960–1279). People could exchange these slips for physical silver at bank branches across the country.

Silver drafts were made in multiple copies with matching serrated seal edges. One copy went to the customer and others stayed at the bank. All edges had to fit perfectly together to withdraw silver. The unique split edge marks were almost impossible to copy.

This mechanism is known as qifeng骑缝 (split-joint seal) in China. It first originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). The Rites of Zhou records that contracts were written on bamboo or wooden slips in duplicate. Notches and marks were carved in the middle before splitting the slips, with each party keeping one half. The two halves would be matched by their notches for verification.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 BC), this idea evolved into hufu虎符/tiger tally tokens. A military tally was split into two pieces with identical inscriptions carved along the split edge. Troops could only be deployed if the patterns and characters on both halves perfectly aligned, serving as a metal version of the split-joint anti-counterfeiting system.

The technology matured in the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Government documents and private contracts commonly used split-joint seals stamped across the dividing line. The Chinese character "hetong合同" (contract) was written across the middle before the paper was torn apart, so the complete characters would only appear when the two halves were put together. This split-coupon system was later adopted for Song Dynasty (960–1279) jiaozi paper money and yinpiao/silver drafts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912).

Official Song dynasty paper money (Jiaozi交子) was abolished in 1107. Private silver drafts issued by Qing-era piaohao票行 (ancient exchange banks) vanished completely in 1951, hit hard by modern banks and currency reforms. Nowadays silver drafts no longer circulate as currency. Their collectible value depends on their rarity and physical condition.

Split-joint seals (骑缝章qifengzhang)are still widely used on important paper documents in modern China, an anti-tampering technique passed down from ancient times. They are applied across the edge of multi-page contracts, bidding documents and official archives. If any page is removed or replaced, the broken seal pattern can prove the file has been altered.

ariaste

OMG I got so excited about this because they used a really similar (though far less refined) version of this for contracts in the European medieval period!

First they were called "chirographs", but later the word "indenture" (in its earliest meaning as just a legal document of any kind between two people) came to be used, originating from the practice of a contract being written twice on a single piece of parchment and then cut in half with serrated edges (as in dent, "teeth" -> indents -> indenture) in order for each party to take one half, so they could later piece them together and verify that there had been no forgery -- same as the Chinese silver drafts!

(Charter of the Clerecía de Ledesma, 1252, showing the serrated indents at the top -- presumably they are cutting rather than tearing because they're using parchment, which I expect is much harder to tear than wood-pulp paper like the Chinese were using)

Delights me when human beings find similar ways to solve the same problem at two different ends of the world. <3

normalmammal

I’m so pro abortion I feel insane hearing any other take on it

normalmammal

Even lefties I know will eventually concede to some situation where they think it’s right to force someone to carry a child against their will as if that’s not one of the most inhumane and cruel situations to put someone in regardless of any other factors

#I bring a very “parasite” belief that most people do not fuckin vibe with

geopsych

3 months plus to go but you know don’t lose sight of it!

cuuno-moved

does anyone have that one painting with the ghosts standing in the water?

cuuno-moved

like theyre in the water and they’re staring off to the side and there’s something so very wrong about it and they’re bending over and trailing along like deer in the headlights but you can’t see what they’re staring at which might make it even scarier

cuuno-moved

like this

cuuno-moved

I FUCKING FOUND IT.

cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024

beach day beach day

cuuno-moved

by the way, the artist is olivia steen (website linked above) and apparently, her other works are just as breathtakingly eerie

look at this!!! it’s cool as hell!!

2cupsoforangejuce

I thought the last one was very familiar to me and turns out it’s painted over a photo of john lennon !

and after looking at the first one again it is also, a beatle photo

estacium

Not going to lie the first picture like the ghost on the water It kinda is referenced on the one picture where the Beatles are in Miami for the Help! shooting I dont have the picture but it really looks like! Especially the bending ghost resembles Ringo and The other Picture where the ghost is sitting down I also remember so much remember that that picture is Brian Epstein sitting I also don’t have the picture cause I cant fine IT aaaaa HAHAH

george-actual-harrison

Now THIS is some fucking forbidden fandom lore lmao

talking-perfectly-loud

ETA THIS IS THE ONE!!!!

drivenalphabitchpaulmccartney

playwrongs

Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against the hills, holding tasteful and expensive servingware within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty years more. Within, dishes continued glossy, napkins creased neatly, knives were straight, and forks were sensibly laid to the right of the plate; silence lay steadily against the rattan and linen of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone, except when it was throwing a garden party.

randomfromtheabyss

Okay, but Rook asking Lucanis to promise they aren’t in the fade anymore and Lucanis, who never makes a promise he cannot keep, SWEARS! Like, I see your promise and raise you a DONT YOU EVER DOUBT YOURSELF OR ME OUR LOVE TRANSCENDS THE FADE!

juniper-and-dragonthorn

No, because let's talk about it. Not only does he not make promises he isn't certain of, this is a man who is one thousand percent aware of how fallible he and everyone around him is, fresh off multiple weeks of believing he'd never see Rook again, and who often cannot trust his own reality standing on the fact that this moment is real, that Rook is there, and that he's absolutely certain of it all so Rook has something solid to lean on. Up to that point, Rook's been the one certain of him, the one solid for him, the one pulling him out of the unreality. Not only does he know how he feels, he knows how they're feeling. The grief, the uncertainty, the daunting task ahead of them still. It's not merely an expression of love, it's Lucanis being able to be there for Rook in the same way Rook has been there for him. As a culmination of the romance, it's really very sweet and shows a lot of character growth on Lucanis' part for being able to acknowledge all of these things he would have previously repressed.

jack-of-blades

I just finished reading Tevinter Nights and it's a shame how a lot of low income folks like me can't have access to it or any of the other Dragon Age novels or the cookbook or the two editions of world of Thedas *sigh* I did put a photo of my cat right here though if you want to see how beautiful he is, please ignore the loose pdf files in the folder!

Also you can reblog this so more people can see the picture of my cat. And since there's nothing in this post relating to Dragon Age please don't tag it with anything related to Dragon Age because there's nothing related to Dragon Age in the folder I'm just putting it on a blog that is dedicated to Dragon Age because I love my cat

carolsturka

how it feels to talk about anything at all

theshitpostcalligrapher

req'd by @femtien

wild that I haven't done this one yet

text: We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty

theshitpostcalligrapher

req'd by @cobalt-knave

bone light.... x ray??

text: I do not wish to regard myself, nor be regarded, in that boney light!

sometiktoksarevalid

atlinmerrick

I literally said, "Are you kidding me?" IN THE GASPED ADMIRING WAY.

socialmaya

dalenthas

I love that this joke works in English even though it's not written in English.

thatlittleegyptologist

"Using an Oxford comma is a sign of AI"

bestie boo, let me fill you in on something: if you're going to take any part of 'good grammar' and randomly assign it to She's A Witch! AI, you might as well give up. It's over. You're cooked. Anyone who has spent the last decade or more learning to type properly, anyone who has spent any time writing articles/papers/essays that require you to use 'good grammar' is going to fall into that 'oh no it might be AI' trap.

Stop hunting like it's 1692. You're not going to find Goody Proctor at the ChatGPT sacrament. What you're going to do is exactly what happened back then: harming people who've done nothing wrong.