1 liang
雨(tael)
16 liang
(tael) make 1 kin
斤(catty)
100 kin
(catty) make 1 tan
擔(pieul)
WEIGHTS, MEASURES, MONEY
CHINESE
WEIGHTS
1.333 oz. avoir., or 37.78 grammes
1.333 lbs. avoir., or 60453 grammes
= 133·333 lbs. avoir., or 60:453 kilogrammes
(catty) make 1 shin
120 kin
Four ounces equal three taels; one pound equals three quarters of a catty or twelve taels
one hundredweight equals 81 catties; one ton equals 16 piculs 80 catties.
(stone) — 160·000 lbs. avoir., or 72-544 kilogrammes
MEASURE OF CAPACITY
1 koh 合(gill)
0.103 litre
10 koh
合 make I sheng
(pint)
1.031 litre
#
10 sheng make 1 tou
(peck)
10.31 litre
14 inch English
10 fun
芬 make tsun
1
10 tsun
make 1 chih
尺make
(inch)
(foot)
=
(pole)
MEASURE OF LENGTH
1 fun 分
10 chih make 1 chang
141 inch English
141 inches English
11 ft. 9 inches English
The length of the Chang is fixed by the Treaty of Tientsin at 141 inches.
5 chih
make 1 pú
步(pace)
360 pú
make 1 li
!!!!
10 li
250 li
make 1 tang-sun
make 1 tu
about 5 feet English
about English Mile
(league) = about 33 English Miles (degree)
LAND MEASURE
1 chih R make 1 pú 步
13-126 inches
5 chih
30-323 square feet
24 pú 步wake 1 fun 芬
80.862 square yards
60
Co pú 步 make kioh 角
4 kioh make 1 mow
1
202.156 square yards
100 mow
make 1 king t
26-73 square poles 16.7 acres
The Mow, which is the unit of measurement, is almost exactly one sixth of an acre.
Weights and measures in China vary in every province and almost every district, and differ in the same districts for different kinds of goods. The words picul, catty, tael, mace candareen are not Chinese.
10 li
MONEY
1 li 釐(cash)
make I fên
芬 (candareen)
=
10 fén 牙 wake1 ch'ien錢(mace)
10 chien 錢 make 1 liang 兩 (tael)
The Tael may be taken as worth one and a third silver dollar.
032 of a penny
*32 of a penny 3.2 pence 28. 8d.
The above are weights of silver. They are not represented by any coin except the copper cash, which is supposed to be the equivalent in value of a li of silver, but the value of which differs greatly in different districts and at different times. They have no uniform intrinsic value, being made large and small and of varying composition. Silver is used uncoined in ingots, usually of fifty taels more or less, in weight, called "shoes," the usual shape being not unlike a Chinese shoe. In the maritime district from Canton to Amoy chopped dollars are the general medium of exchange. In 1890 a mint was established for the coinage of silver dollars and subsidiary pieces, and more recently mints for silver and copper coinage have been opened at Nanking. Wuchang, and Tientsin, and others are projected. The coins, although supposed to be of equal weight and fineness, are differently inscribed. Some of the foreign banks issue tael and dollar notes of the value of one dollar and upwards at the larger of the Treaty Ports.
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