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Tax Wheat 税 Likes Man Fitting Person Depicted

meaning tax
number 2012
hanzi
story Nobody likes the tax man, so here it is only fitting that the person who comes over to take some of your wheat is depicted here as a devil. Keep in mind that in feudal societies there was no kind of money to speak of, so taxes were paid by serfs in wheat to the devils who came over to keep them poor.
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