中国珠算英文介绍

Chinese Abacus
•Another legend said it was Confucius who invented the abacus. His wife helped him thread beads on string. So actually the inventor of abacus was Confucius’s wife. •However, as for the two legends, neither of them was convincing.
Chinese Abacus
“Once sound abacus ringing, there is a ton of gold.”
“An abacus to his waist ”
That is to say the businessman calculate well so that little abacus” he gains much money. It “A sounds irony and means that he just calculate his personal tip.
Chinese Abacus
This picture shows the common abacus we used to see. Look at it, which remind me of my first abacus when I was a child. Actually abacuses often turn up in Chinese literature, just as we used to say “he calculates on an abacus jingle jingle” “he is smart by the means of calculating on the abacus”. We also often see the pictures of a bookkeeper calculating on the abacus from TV or films.
If a person just considers for himself, we will say he has a little abacus.
Chinese Abacus
“Irony abacus”
“Irony abacus” means “greedy for money”
“Dirty abacus”
Chinese Abacus
-- the oldest calculating machine in the world
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Chinese Abacus
An abacus is essentially an array of beads threaded on string or held in grooves, with each row representing a different digit.
How long history does abacus has?
But it maybe wrong, because there isn’t any evidence to prove it. And it maybe longer according to the legend.
Chinese Abacus
Chinese Abacus
Huizhou businessman respect abacus highly, and they had many taboos about abacus: •Firstly you have to wash your hand before using abacus. •Secondly don’t turn the abacus upside down, playing it as wheels. •Thirdly, put abacus on the counter if you don't need it.But don’t hang it on the wall. •Fourthly, after using abacus, you have to reset, moving the two upper beads up and five below beads down.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Yue competed for the overlord. Fuchai, the king of Wu was dead and then the king of Yue, Gouqian, won. But just because of his competitor’s death? Of course not.
We have to mention a beauty Xi Shi, one of the four beauties in Chinese history. She was Yue’s minister Fan Li’s wife. But she was sent to Wu as a tool of honey trap.
Chinese Abacus
Chinese Abacus
•This is a piece of famous painting called Riverside Scene at Qing Ming Festival frLeabharlann Baidum Song Dynasty, from which you can see abacus.
Chinese Abacus
When the war came to over, Xi Shi went back home and decided with his husband to leave the king to do business. As a result, they earned much money, but don’t know how to calculate. According to the legend, her husband Fan Li made a lot of clay balls. Then Xi Shi put the clay balls on bamboo sticks, and every five balls marked a notation,in which way they count clearly. As everyone knows that Fan Li, also called Zhu Gong, was a millionaire in Chineses history.
Chinese Abacus
Chinese Abacus
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) claimed that Chinese abacus become alternate item on the Non-material cultural heritage list on 31st Oct. 2013. They also said that Chinese abacus was called the oldest calculating machine in the world.
“Wishful abacus “Dirty abacus” means full of” dirty tricks.
“Wishful abacus” means wishful thoughts.
Chinese Abacus
According to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), abacus has 1800 years of history.
Therefore, at latest abacus appeared in the end of Tang Dynasty, at least 1200-year history from now.
Chinese Abacus
In the Ming Dynasty, there were so many businessmen in Hui Zhou. And one of the famous businessmen was Cheng Dawei, who invented Who invented abacus rhymes? When Cheng Dawei was more than 40 years with rich experience all the systematic arithmetic of abacus. Atold, that time, different people he unified the abacus, just as it looks like now and then make the had different ways to calculate, and abacuses had different types, 4 rhymes. He book in 1592 AD, called Algorithm Tong Zong, beads, 5 wrote beadsa or 6 beads on a stick. including all the abacus techniques. In the ancient times, if you want to do business, you have to begin with learning how to use abacus.
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