Yuan Wuzong, who sent the "ticket", gave "four hundred pieces of silver and one thousand two hundred bills" at a time.
Direct rewards to winners, so-called "tickets", were widely used in modern times and ancient China. In ancient times, gold and silver were awarded. But the more generous may be the Yuan Dynasty, where the real "tickets" were issued.
Wrestling is a traditional Mongolian sport. Mongolians especially like this sport, and the winners have a lot of bonuses. According to Biography of Yuan History II, in April of junior year (13 10), Wuying Zonghaishan gave a prize to wrestler Alfa, giving him "two hundred and twenty pieces of silver and four hundred notes". How much is this 1200 silver converted into RMB? In Yuan Dynasty, one or two grams was about 40 grams, and 1200 grams was 40,000 grams. According to the current international price of silver is about 5.50 yuan per gram, 1200 pieces of silver can be worth 220,000 yuan.
Besides, how much is the "four hundred ingots" worth? China is the first country to use paper money in the world. Paper money is a mature paper money, and today's paper money and paper money are produced in this way. At that time, a 400-ingot banknote was 2,000 pieces, and 1 silver was equivalent to about 2 banknotes. Therefore, a 400-ingot banknote is worth 1200 silver coins. Adding up these banknotes, Al got a total reward equivalent to 400,000 RMB, which was also quite high at that time.
When Desbarax (Yuan Yingzong) proclaimed himself emperor, in the first year of Zhi Zhi (A.D. 132 1), he "gave horns to 120 people, each with a thousand notes", that is, awarded 120 excellent wrestlers with a bonus of 100 notes. Although bial won much less money, each person was equivalent to 50 taels of silver.
There were also many competitions in the Qing Dynasty that set up bonuses. Manchu originated in the northeast and has a special liking for ice sports, namely "ice play", which is called "national custom" in the preface to ice play by Emperor Qianlong. Every year, there is a national ice competition called "ice review". According to the General Examination of Qing Dynasty Literature, among the winners, "the first three won twelve taels of silver, the last three won eight taels of silver, the last three won six taels of silver, and the rest of the soldiers each won four taels of silver."
Appreciating the "Silver Cup" Emperor Xiaowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty used silver wine as a prize.
Winners of modern sports competitions are often called "winning cups", and cups were indeed used as prizes in ancient China.
The Northern Wei Dynasty was a political power established by Xianbei people in the North during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Xianbei people advocate riding and shooting. As a traditional sport in ancient China, archery was paid attention to in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and competitions in this field were often held in court and among the people.
According to the Biography of Northern History Zong Wei, Yuan Zuo, Emperor Xiaowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, once held an archery competition in the Royal Garden of Luoyang City, which was called "play shooting". The prize at that time was a "silver jar" that could only hold two liters of wine. "Yi" is a commonly used wine container in ancient times. In fact, it is an oversized wine glass, which is very similar in shape to a modern sports trophy.
There were more than a dozen archers participating in the competition at that time. Emperor Yuan You hung the silver cup a hundred paces away. Whoever shot the silver cup was his. As a result, Wang Yuanshun in Puyang was shot, and he got not only "trophies", but also gold, silks and satins given by Emperor Xiaowu. Yuan Shun was very happy after winning the prize. He specially cast a little silver man at the arrow hole he shot at that time, and wrote an inscription on his back to describe his superb archery.
Song Taizong's Zhao Huan once rewarded players with trophies. According to Records of the History of the Song Dynasty, Jia Lizhi IV, in March of the third year of Chunhua (AD 992), Zhao Huan went to Jinmingchi to watch the "Horse Racing Show". The so-called "racing drama" means water races such as dragon boat races or swimming races. In order to entertain and test the water quality of the contestants, we took a silver ou as a prize and threw it into the far water for the contestants to swim for. This silver flower is a kind of silver cup (small basin). Of course, whoever gets it will belong to him, and it has really become a "trophy."