sycee การใช้
- Dumplings symbolize wealth because their shape resembles a Chinese sycee.
- Chinese sycee, Japanese obans and kobans, and Vietnamese lang and tien.
- A common practice in that period was also to melt gold into copper molds for convenience, derived from the sycee manufacturing method.
- When foreign silver coins began to circulate in China in the later 16th century, they were initially considered a type of " quasi-sycee " and imprinted with seals just as sycees were.
- From the founding of Ming until 1450, the emperors attempted to use paper currency, but this experienced the same hyperinflation as its Spain flowed into the country and were traded as bullion now known as sycee.