我國古代的貨幣（主要是金屬鑄幣）大致可分為兩類：一類是正用品錢，即具備貨幣的職能，可以正式行用的，用通俗的話講就是能花的錢；另一類是非正式行用的錢幣，雖然鑄造成錢幣的形制，但卻不具備貨幣的職能。這就是指花錢，花錢不用於流通，主要用於避邪取吉。
Of ancient Chinese currency (mainly metal COINS) can be roughly divided into two kinds: one kind is are products of money, which has the function of currency, can use the official line, with popular words which is able to spend money; Another kind of informal money, although cast into the form of money, but do not have the function of money. This is to point to spend money, money is not used for circulation, mainly used to ward off evil spirits.
花錢源於漢代，花錢在早期使用的時候主要是中國民間自娛自樂的一種玩錢，這種錢幣由於不是流通錢，因此它的材質大都比較粗糙，中國民間把這種錢俗稱為“花錢”。“花錢”雖然具有錢幣的形態，但不作流通使用，是錢幣中的“非正用品”。中國民間花錢的種類繁多，諸如開爐、鎮庫、饋贈、祝福、玩賞、戲作、配飾、生肖等等都要鑄錢，這種“錢”，其實是專供某種需要的辟邪品、吉利品、紀念品。其中“吉語錢”是比較普遍的一類花錢。主要以“長命富貴”、“福德長壽”、“加官進祿”、 “天下太平”等吉語為內容，這同時也反應了中國傳統文化的滲透力。明清時期，花錢的鑄造和流傳達到鼎盛時期，稱謂繁多，內容涉及到了生活的各個領域。
Money from the han dynasty, to spend money at the time of early use of mainly a kind of Chinese folk entertaining play money, this money because is not the circulation of money, the material of it mostly is coarser, the China folk known as the money "money". Although "spend money" has the form of money, but do not use it in circulation, it is the "non-positive articles" in money. There are many types of Chinese folk to spend money, such as furnace and town library, gift and blessing, and drama, a pet accessories, Chinese zodiac, and so on are cast money, this kind of "money", is actually for a certain need to ward off bad luck is tasted, geely is tasted, souvenirs. Among them, "lucky money" is a relatively common type of spending. The main content is "long life and wealth", "long life in the fuld", "more officials, more money" and "peace under heaven", which also reflects the penetration of Chinese traditional culture. During the Ming and qing dynasties, the foundry and spread of money reached its peak, with various titles and contents covering all areas of life.
花錢最初在古錢幣學界被稱為“壓勝錢"、“厭勝錢"或“民俗錢”。厭勝，古代謂以詛咒鎮壓邪祟。這個厭在這裡不讀yan,應讀ya，是動詞，意為一物壓在另一物上，壓而勝之。花錢區別於流通錢幣的最大特徵是：花錢上(錢面、錢背)多雕刻形式多樣、主題豐富的浮雕式紋飾，這些紋飾因勢就形，充分合理的利用有限的空間，顯得花錢精巧別緻。‘花錢的紋飾多為中國傳統的吉祥紋樣、含有吉祥寓意的文字、古代神話故事、歷史典故等等。其形式一般有純文字、文字配少量紋飾、主題性紋飾以及主題性紋飾結合文字四種基本類型。
Money was originally known in the field of ancient COINS as "money is better than money", "money is better than money" or "folk money". Misogyny, ancient said to suppress evil spirits with curses. This dislike here does not read yan, should read ya, is a verb, means that one thing presses on another thing, presses but wins. Spend money from circulation coin is the biggest characteristic: more money (money, money back) of carving a variety of forms, themes, rich embossed type grain, the grain shape for potential, full and reasonable use of limited space, sophisticated chic look to spend money. The patterns of spending money are mostly Chinese traditional auspicious patterns, words with auspicious connotations, ancient myths and stories, historical allusions and so on. There are four basic types: pure text, small amount of decoration, thematic decoration and thematic decoration.
目前就有這樣一枚花錢展現在國內知名藝術網站上—世紀收藏網。此枚花錢質地為銅質，正面書寫有“驅邪降福”四字；背面鑄有“五毒”形體，圖案生動形象，“五毒”作垂死掙扎狀，除此外，還繪有一隻猛虎。“五毒”一般是指蠍子、蜈蚣、蛇、蟾蜍和壁虎。老虎不在五毒之列，這枚壓勝錢上為何要雕繪一隻老虎呢？原因在於，民間將老虎視為百獸之王，認為可以藉助“虎”氣壓邪、鎮五毒，以虎之威猛來去邪辟妖，保佑全家平安。
At present, there is such a money to be shown on the famous domestic art website - century collection net. This piece is made of copper with the words "drive away evil spirits and bring good fortune" written on the front. On the back of the cast "five poisons" body, vivid images, "five poisons" for the moribund knot, in addition to the picture of a tiger. "Five poisons" generally refer to scorpions, centipedes, snakes, toads and geckos. The tiger is not among the five poisons. Why should a tiger be carved on this coin? The reason is that the people regard the tiger as the king of all kinds of animals. They believe that they can use the "tiger" pressure to exorcise evil spirits and eliminate five poisons.
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