1 Yuan 1996, China
| in Krause book | Number: 884с |
| Years of issue: | 01.04.1997 |
| Edition: | |
| Signatures: | no signature |
| Serie: | 1980 Issue |
| Specimen of: | 1996 |
| Material: | Cotton fiber |
| Size (mm): | 137 х 62 |
| Printer: | China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPM) |
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Description
Watermark:
The stars.
Avers:
Two young woman of Dong and Yao.
The Dong, a Kam-Sui people of southern China, are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They are famed for their native-bred Kam Sweet Rice, carpentry skills, and unique architecture, in particular a form of covered bridge known as the "wind and rain bridge". The Dong people live mostly in eastern Guizhou, western Hunan, and northern Guangxi in China. Small pockets of Dong speakers are also found in Tuyên Quang Province, northern Vietnam.
The Yao nationality is a government classification for various minorities in China. They form one of the 55 ethnic minority groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, where they reside in the mountainous terrain of the southwest and south. They also form one of the 54 ethnic groups officially recognized by Vietnam.
Top left is the coat of arms of China.
The national emblem of the People's Republic of China contains in a red circle a representation of Tiananmen Gate, the entrance gate to the Forbidden City, where Mao declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. Above this representation are the five stars found on the national flag. The largest star represents the Communist Party of China, while the four smaller stars represent the four social classes as defined in Maoism. The outer border of the red circle shows sheaves of wheat and the inner sheaves of rice, which together represent agricultural workers. At the center of the lower portion of the border is a cog-wheel that represents industrial workers.
Stylized birds on background are centered, the Braille dots for the visually impaired are in lower left.
Denominations in numerals are in lower left, top right and lower right corners. Centered in words.
Revers:
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces. Several walls were being built as early as the VII century BC, these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built between 220-206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall are from the Ming Dynasty.
Other purposes of the Great Wall have included border controls, allowing the imposition of duties on goods transported along the Silk Road, regulation or encouragement of trade and the control of immigration and emigration. Furthermore, the defensive characteristics of the Great Wall were enhanced by the construction of watch towers, troop barracks, garrison stations, signaling capabilities through the means of smoke or fire, and the fact that the path of the Great Wall also served as a transportation corridor.
The main Great Wall line stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the Ming walls measure 8,850 km. (5,500 mi.). This is made up of 6,259 km. (3,889 mi) sections of actual wall, 359 km. (223 mi.) of trenches and 2,232 km. (1,387 mi) of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers. Another archaeological survey found that the entire wall with all of its branches measure out to be 21,196 km (13,171 mi.).
Lower right is the year of issue.
Denominations in numerals are in top and lower left and top right corners. Each note has the words "People's Bank of China" as well as the denomination in the Uyghur, Tibetan and Mongolian (but no Zhuang since Zhuang alphabet was not invented yet) languages on the back, which has since appeared in each series of Renminbi notes.
Comments:
I got this banknote in China, in June 1999, in Beijing, when was visiting Beijing and Changchun.
An acquaintance of mine made the following observation about the Zhuang language (the inscription on which is present on the reverse of the banknote):
"Some letters at the end of syllables in Zhuang writing are not readable, but indicate the pitch (Zhuang is a tonal language).
And somehow, describing similar things to banknotes, I tried, as best I could, to read what was written out loud, well, purely for a more complete immersion in the topic. My household was asleep at that moment, and therefore I tried to do it in a whisper.
There was no end to surprise!
It's impossible to whisper!
After all, it is necessary to reflect the pitch in pronunciation, and this is achieved only by "turning on" the sound!
I came to the conclusion that they are all much more honest than us :) They cannot whisper something!"
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