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Did the word wallet exist in ancient times?

Yes, it's called a wallet.

The purse is a small fragmentary bag worn by people in the traditional costumes of the Han nationality in China. The shapes of wallets are round, oval, square and rectangle, as well as peach, wishful and pomegranate. The patterns of the purse are complex and simple, including flowers and birds, animals, insects, landscapes, figures, auspicious words, poems and figures, which are very decorative. In modern Cantonese, purse is often used to refer to wallet.

The predecessor of wallet is called "Lotus Bag". Load, load; Bag, bag also. The so-called "bag" is a small bag used to hold odds and ends of fine things. Ingu

People's clothes have no pockets, and some things that must be carried with them (such as towels, seals, coins, etc.) can only be stored in such bags. The earliest lotus bags can be used with both hands and shoulders, so they are also called "holding bags" or "pulling bags". Later, I gradually felt that my shoulder was inconvenient, so I hung it on my waist, forming a custom called "side bag". Lotus bags are usually made of leather, so they are also called "bags". For example, a piece unearthed from Subhas's tomb in Shanshan, Xinjiang, is made of sheepskin, rectangular, 6.7 cm long and 3.7 cm wide, with a lace at the mouth for hanging. The earliest existing capsules are relics of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.