唐代货币史中的国家认同问题

On National Identity in the History of Currency in Tang Dynasty

货币不仅仅是国家认同的结果,还能够通过文字信息的传播成为国家认同的重要建构方式。唐初时,政府对钱文形式的一系列改革使得作为文化符号的开元通宝钱式之宣传效率大大提高,其成功模式及经验直到唐朝衰亡后仍然被后世政权继承参考。尽管初唐时社会中私铸行为盛行,但当时社会对官钱形制的认可度以及官钱本身的通行度已有了显著提高,因此唐初货币制度的建构基本还是成功的。另外,乾元重宝发行后的社会问题说明,政治权力不能被视为国家认同的来源,而乾元钱币值下跌后的影响又说明,将国家认同作为政治权力行使的目的的作法,同样是不可行的。

Currency is not only a form of national identity, but also an important way to construct national identity through the transmission of character information. In the early Tang Dynasty, government re- forms of currency character promoted the propaganda efficiency of Kaiyuan Tongbao currency as a cultural symbol. The successful model and experience was inherited and referred to by following regimes after the decline and fall of Tang Dynasty. Although private minting was prevalent in the early Tang Dynasty, so- cial recognition of the form and system of official currency and the circulation of it had been improved obvi- ously. So the construction of the currency system in the early Tang Dynasty was basically successful. Be- sides, social problems emerged after the issue of Qianyuan Chongbao showed that political power couldn＇t be regarded as the source of national identity, and influences of decline of Qianyuan currency showed that it was infeasible to take national identity as the purpose of execution of political power.