The piggy bank is an ancient container for storing money, similar to the modern piggy bank. This is a kind of ceramic container with fine holes, which is used to hold money. Fill it out, put it in a copper coin or box, and then break it to withdraw money. "Full is swooping down", hence the name "full". This kind of pottery has a history of more than two thousand years in ancient China.

The earliest piggy bank in China appeared in the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, piggy banks were called piggy banks. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a man named Gong who used a piggy bank to remind himself that if he wanted to be an official, he had to be an official and not forget his poor life. When he was a child, Gong often came into contact with pigs, so he made the piggy bank like a pig.

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In the early 1950s, in the ancient city of Xiangtan, this kind of small clay pot filled with money was still sold at toy stalls. The beauty of it is that coins can be put in but not taken out. Therefore, children usually put pocket money given by their parents into small holes. When the money is full during the Spring Festival, they break the small clay pot and spend it happily, so it is also called "piggy bank". "Those rich people use soil as a tool to save money; Out-of-body experience without out-of-body experience, when you are full, you will pounce (volume 5 of Xijing Miscellanies).

The earliest written records can be found in Sima Qian's Historical Records. It has many other names, such as bag, gourd and piggy bank.

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