External Influence
Early Korean and Japanese currencies, the Korean mun and Japanese mon, were derived from the Chinese wén and written with the same character. In 1695, the Shogunate placed the Japanese character gen (元) on the obverse of copper coins. Vietnam gained independence from China in 938 and merely carried on the tradition of using cash. The first Vietnamese cash was issued in 968.
Read more about this topic: Chinese Cash (currency Unit)
Famous quotes related to external influence:
“When a person hasn’t in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog’s bark in every sound.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)