In the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the word "shape" was used to express the meaning of bronze raw materials. The original meaning of gold is red gold, that is, copper, which is extended to the general name of metal, and later its meaning is reduced to gold. Gold was also used as money in ancient times, so it was extended to money. Gold is scarce in nature, so it also refers to noble and precious things.
Golden character characteristics
Gold is expensive. In the crust, the content of gold is not small, and placer gold in nature is mostly pure gold. Why is gold so expensive? Yes, gold is not rare in the earth's crust, even much more than many rare elements; However, it's too scattered. For thousands of years, human beings have mainly used this feature of heavy money to look for gold in the sand.
One or two placer gold should have 700,000 to 800,000 gold powder. The fineness and dispersion of natural placer gold are unimaginable. These hundreds of thousands of gold powders can only be obtained by washing more than tons of river sand. This is not an easy task for mechanized gold panning, besides, ancient people have always been manual gold panning, which requires much labor.
Historically, man has made hundreds of millions of tons of steel. However, the cumulative output of gold is only over 97,000 tons, and the difficulty of mining gold can be imagined. Since gold will not be corroded and consumed, most of these 90,000 tons of gold are locked in the vaults of banks in various countries except scientific instruments, electrical appliances and jewelry.