yes they did use money, but not alot
Coins and paper
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Bills, coins and bank accounts
China does not use the dollar as its currency.
They use the yuan 1 U.S. dollar = 6.82589197 Chinese yuan
The first people to use paper money were the Chinese during the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century. The government issued the world's first official paper money to reduce the need to carry heavy metal coins.
Yuan is the currency of China. Money in Chinese is 钱
just like U.S. money in English ,its Chinese money.
In America,$5.00 Chinese money is worth $00.80
Chinese money is on a scale of #-1 is 4.617 times more expensive