Chinese pinyin: Yi YΡ ρ, Erρr, San sρn, Siρ, Wu W ψ, ρ, Qi Qρ, Ba bā, Jiuji ψ, Shi shí, Bai B ε i, qiān, Wan w à n.
The invention of uppercase numbers:
There are three popular sayings about the origin of capitalized Chinese numeral "1234567890000", which are listed as follows:
The first statement
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, a "major corruption case in Guo Huan" involving 12 senior officials and six assistant ministers was to use blank account books to make false accounts and tamper with figures to embezzle money and grain, amounting to more than 24 million mangoku, almost equivalent to the total amount of autumn grain requisitioned by the whole country at that time.
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and ordered tens of thousands of accomplices, including Guo Huan, to be beheaded. At the same time, he made strict laws to punish economic crimes and took technical preventive measures in financial management. He changed the numbers in Chinese characters to hard-to-change capitalization, that is, "one two three four five six seven eight nine 10000" to "12345678900", which is called the first number capitalization in the history of China.
The second statement
According to Gu, a textual research scholar in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Wu Zetian not only changed the name of the country from "Tang" to "Zhou", but also produced many Chinese characters. Most stone tablets erected at that time had capital letters on them. Moreover, capitalized numbers are also common in poetry. For example, in Bai Juyi's Song Edition of Bai Changqing Collection, "Going to camp, please ask Le Weibo and other four soldiers and horses to take care of their own things" has such a description: "The cost of starting a large army in January is 280,000. 」
Gu clearly revealed his inference in the Records of Stone Carvings and Statues in Daiyue Temple: "All the numbers used as one, two, three, four, five, earth, seven, eight and nine were changed by Wuhou and made by himself. It can be seen that Wu Zetian's "self-made words"-Chinese capital figures, was nearly 700 years earlier than Zhu Yuanzhang.