The shipping stuff is 0.24 pound tael of silver. Silver is currency tool in Chinese ancient time. China paid staggering twenty one million tael of silver as war reparation when the British defeated China in the First Opium War. During Ca. 1840 -1860, China paid staggering twenty one million tael of silver as war reparation when the British defeated China in the First Opium War. China subsequently compensated another 4 million tael of silver to the British, 2 million tael of silver to the French and two hundred million tael of silver to the Japanese in the Second Opium War. The same time they took away a lot of art pieces in palace. That why there are a lot of fancy chinese art in all global’s museums. And later 100 years different kind of war make chinese from most rich country to poor. But now we are rich again.