What is the significance of coin design when digital currency is gradually approaching?
text | Haishangke
On February 22, local time in the United States, the 8-gram gold commemorative coin of Chinese calligraphy art issued by the People's Bank of China in 2019 won the "Best Gold Coin Award" at the 38th World Coin Award.
Chinese Calligraphy Art Gold Coin
At the same time, Uncle Hai noticed that on February 24, the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China joined a multilateral central bank digital currency bridge research project, which aims to explore the application of central bank digital currency in cross-border payments.
In the future, perhaps the application fields of digital currency will become more and more extensive. In this case, what is the meaning of coins? You can find the answer from the official script gold coins that won the "Best Gold Coin Award"...
First look at the winning Chinese calligraphy gold coins, which is really beautiful. The front pattern of the gold coin is the two characters "China" written in bronze inscriptions. The thickness is the same, the characters are slender, winding down like flowing water, spreading across the square earth. The background is bronze decorative patterns, which coincides with the era in which bronze inscriptions are located. Dignified, symmetrical, and generous.
100 yuan gold coins for the front and reverse official script
0 100 yuan on the back, the horizontal strokes are longer and the straight strokes are shorter, and the writing effect is flat and wider, which also looks quite characteristic of the Han Dynasty.
From bronze inscriptions to Qin Shihuang's unification of the six kingdoms and the same text as the small seal script, to the change of official scripts at the intersection of Qin and Han dynasties, the initial history of the evolution of Chinese characters is vividly reflected in this gold coin.
No wonder some netizens praised the beautiful Chinese characters after seeing the winning gold coins.
Uncle Hai noticed that the gold coins won this award this time are the 11th coin that won the World Coin Award after the 5-ounce gold coins of China Grotto Art (Maijishan) won the "Best Gold Coin Award" in 2006.
There is no doubt that such Chinese gold coins have made contributions in promoting Chinese culture.
What is the significance of coin design when digital currency is gradually approaching? In fact, there have been precedents in this way. For example, stamps - few people now mail letters, but stamps from various countries are still being issued. Stamps have become a national business card and continue to gain popularity among collectors.
Digital payment is gradually approaching
Another example is the traditional Chinese seal carving art. It also creates an aesthetic world in a small space. For example, some Chinese seal seals emphasize that the strokes are "wide and can be carried by horses, but not needles". After looking at the winning coins, what Uncle Hai thought of was that these coins actually have similarities with the art of seal carving.
Seal carving
From the Chinese calligraphy coin winning the award in the United States, Uncle Hai also thought of a question - nowadays, more and more foreign friends have learned about the beauty of Chinese culture, and even the beauty of Chinese characters. includes countries like South Korea that once abandoned Chinese characters in East Asian cultural circles. Now, South Korean MPs have initiated the "Amendment to the Primary and Secondary School Education Law" to call for the use of Chinese characters in Korean primary and secondary school textbooks. However, what about us? Do we also need to strengthen the promotion of Chinese character culture and Chinese character education?
Children draw Spring Festival couplets
Before this year's Spring Festival, a boys' group talent show was held, and the program team asked the contestants to write Spring Festival couplets to meet the scene. But I knew that the brush calligraphy was written better, but I was generally a foreigner! It is really disgusting to see those words like "I'm here, I'm going to be popular", "handsome and handsome, beautiful and beautiful" that won't say anything else, let alone Spring Festival couplets, and "works" that don't write well! Is there any waste of paper?
"Spring Festival couplets" written by the talent show contestant
In contrast, a foreign contestant said, "Celebrating the festival is here, I wish you good luck." The couplets are still neatly matched and the characters are written in a decent manner.
Uncle Hai wants to say that Chinese characters are treasures left by our ancestors. Although there are fewer and fewer opportunities to write by hand now, to some extent, the words as others say, are not outdated.
Spring Festival couplets written by foreign contestants are not bad
In this way, this gold coins with the words "China" and "Xingli" are indeed worthy of our careful appreciation while promoting Chinese traditional culture. They are beautiful, really beautiful...
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