中国数字的起源
The Original of Chinese Numbers
约5千年前中国开始使用数字。从“1”到“10”到百，千，万，在商代数字系统是完整的，并自那时以来，十进制开始使用。
Numbers came into use about 5 000 years ago in China. From "1" to "10"，to hundred,thousand,ten thousand, the number system was complete even in Shang Dynasty and the decimal system even started since that time.
数字其实最初是从早期的狩猎实践而来。古人崇拜数字和语言一样，所以数字始终是有文化内涵的。人们认为，一些数字可以带来财富和运气，有的可能带来不幸，甚至给他们带来灾难。在中国，数字之谜一直备受阴阳概念的影响。古人把十个数字划分成两组：奇数是阳，意味着“天道，男性”;而偶数是阴，这意味着“大地，女性”。
Numbers are, in fact, originally coming from the early hunting practice. The ancients worship numbers as they do to the language,so numbers are always culturally connotative. People believe that some numbers can bring fortune and luck, and some may bring misfortune and even disaster to them. In China,the mystery of numbers has been much influenced by theconcept of Yin and Yang. Ancients divide the ten numbers into two groups： the odd numbers are Yang, implying "the Heaven,the male": while the even numbers are yin，implying "the Earth,the female".