What we are going to talk about today is not the kind of plant called the money tree, but the "money tree" unearthed from many ancient tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a kind of bronze funerary object, because this funerary object is decorated with a lot of square hole round money. People give it a very vivid name, which is called the "money tree". However, there is a lot of information about the money tree now We don't know what money tree means besides being buried with others.
The first money tree appeared in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, and then it became popular rapidly. However, the number of money trees decreased sharply in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, and disappeared in the Western Jin Dynasty. When this kind of money tree was unearthed, most of them were in some large and medium-sized tombs. If there are tombs of this scale, the owners of the tombs are generally wealthy families. Now, the most precious of these money trees are collected in the Mianyang Museum, and they are also listed as cultural relics that are not allowed to go abroad for exhibition.
The reason is that this cash tree is the most complete, the largest and the most exquisite one found so far, with a total of seven layers. In addition to the patterns of coins, there are also different patterns such as rosefinch, deer, elephant and so on, which are incomparable. Now it seems that there is no money tree, but the imagination of "money tree" has always existed, and the ancients even made them. Nowadays, many people are just living in fantasy, but money tree is also a very good moral. Congratulating others on their wealth is also a very practical wish.
