Unit 8-Chinese Number Culture 演示文稿.pptVIP

 Chinese Digital Culture Tasks today The Origin of Chinese Numbers Even Numbers and Odd Numbers Chinese Number One” Chinese Number “Nine” Chinese Number Ten” Chinese Number taboos VS. English number taboos The Origin of Chinese Numbers Numbers came into use about 5 000 years ago in China. From 1 10to hundred, thousand, ten thousand, the number system was complete even in Shang Dynasty and the decimal system even started since that time. Numbers are, in fact, originally coming from the early hunting practice. The ancients worship numbers as they do to the language, so numbers are al