According to the excavated bamboo slips of the Han Dynasty and the literature data,a compendium textual research on the prices of fish in the Han Dynasty is carried out in this article.It is demonstrated in that the normal fish price in the northwest boundary in Han Dynasty was 1 TOU(MEI) and several QIAN per JIN and the price would be up to 1 TOU and several twenty to thirty QIAN per JIN in the inflation periods in Han Dynasty.In the hinterland aera,the normal price of fish will be 1 TOU and Several QIAN per JIN and the lowest one will be 1.67 QIAN per JIN only.Meanwhile the price of premium fish would be 1000 QIAN per JIN or even higher.
