中国古代的巨量黄金究竟去向如何?一说自佛教传入中国后,塑像涂金,成为耗金之蠹,一说风俗侈奢,泥金写经,贴金作棒,日消月耗,一说东汉以来,黄金外流(如贸易入超,向大宛买马,琉璃而耗资甚巨)。经济史专家唐任伍认为这些观点都靠不住,因为东汉佛教尚未大兴,谈不上塑像涂金,泥金,贴金之风虽积少成多,但仍属微不足道,史载汉代在对外贸易中,极少使用黄金,更多的却是用丝绸布帛换取。那么东汉以来黄金骤减的真正原因何在呢?其实由于从西汉的绿林、赤眉军农民起义到东汉的黄巾军起义连绵不断的战争中,许多富豪坚壁清野,窖藏黄金,以备不测。当农 After the introduction of Buddhism into China, the statues painted gold and became the beetles of gold consumption. One said that customs are extravagant, Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the outflow of gold (such as trade into the super, to buy a horse Daban, glass and costly giant). Tang Renwu, a historian of economic history, believes these views are unreliable because the Buddhism in Eastern Han Dynasty has not yet flourished, not to mention that statues painted with gold, mud, and gold paste are small but still insignificant in history. In the history of the Han Dynasty, there were few in foreign trade Use gold, but more with silk cloth exchange. So what is the real reason for the plummeting of gold since the Eastern Han Dynasty? In fact, many tycoons are clearing the fields and hiding the gold in preparation for unexpected events in the continuous war of yellow turban army uprisings from the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Red Army Peasant Uprising to the Eastern Han Dynasty. When farmers