* By year of issue
* By state or province
* By type (rice or grain, cloths, oil, other objects, ....)
* By weight, unit, amount, ...
On each coupon, normally we can easily find this info.
I wrote about the dates already, and the cities or provinces will be explained in future posts.
Similar coupons, can be sorted out by city or province, or issuing administration.
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Food coupons - city or province is marked |
Most of these units return on each coupon, therefore some examples :
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Food coupons - amount and unit is marked |
A "shi-liang" equals 50 gram of cerials.
Coupons of 2 市两 , represent 100 gram of grains/cerials
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shi liang |
Coupons of 1 市斤, represent 500 gram of grains/cerials
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shi jin |
In Chinese counting, 500 is written as 5 100 (2 characters) - 5000 is writte as 5 1000 (two characters),
2500 is written as 2 1000 5 100 (four characters).
This goes for 'gram' or 'ké' - often the unit is preceded by arabic numbers - sometimes with multiple chinese characters.
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ké - gram |
Another common unit is "sheng", or liter.
In the old days (pre 1915) a 'sheng was slightly more then one liter. But due to standardisation, it became 1 liter in 1930.
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wu (5) sheng (liter) |
Coupons of 5 升 , represent 5 liters of fuel.
(市) 升 - 1 liter - 2.113 US pint - 1.760 UK pint
to be continued ...
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