Whether Arabic numerals (1, 2,3 ...) or Chinese lowercase numerals (1, 2,3 ...) are easy to be altered and tampered with because of their simple strokes. Therefore, the numbers on general documents and commercial financial bills should be capitalized in Chinese characters: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, one hundred, and one thousand (the strokes of "ten thousand, one hundred, and one trillion" are complicated, and there is little chance of using them, so there is no need to replace them with other words).
For example, "3,564 yuan" is written as "3,000 Wu Bai and 64 yuan". These Chinese characters have existed for a long time, and they are used as capital figures and belong to borrowing. The complicated writing of this number was fully used as early as the Tang Dynasty, and then it was gradually standardized as a set of "uppercase numbers".
Extended data:
First, the origin of capital figures
Numbers are capitalized and have existed since ancient times. Although some accounts were gradually changed into Arabic numerals after liberation, they were all important accounts. Remittance by cheque; Stocks, government bonds and bills still use capitalized Chinese characters and numbers.
The article "The Origin of Capitalized Numbers" published by Mr. Hou Jialiang in Chewing WordsNo. 12, 2004 says: "In order to crack down on corruption, Zhu Yuanzhang also enacted severe laws to punish economic crimes, adopted technical preventive measures in financial management and implemented some effective measures.
One of the most important points is to change the Chinese characters' one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, hundred, thousand' into capitals, and use' one, two, three, four, five, land, seven, eight, nine, ten, thousand'. "That is to say, counting with capital figures originated from the Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
Second, the historical origin
The use of capital figures began in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang issued a decree because of a major corruption case "Guo Huan case" at that time, which clearly required that the number of bookkeeping should be changed from "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten and one hundred thousand" to "one, two, three, four, five, seven and nine". Later, "Mo" and "Qian" were rewritten as "Bai and Qian", which have been used ever since.
At the beginning of the Daming regime, it was stipulated that every year all ministries, prefectures and counties in China should send accountants to the household department to report the income and expenditure accounts and the amount of money and grain in local finance. The figures between governments at all levels and with the Ministry of Housing must be completely consistent.
If there is any mistake, it will be returned and reported again. Because the place is far from the capital, in order to save time and avoid the pain of business trip, all localities have brought blank account books with official seals. If it is returned, please fill in the corrections at any time. Moreover, because the blank account book is covered with sewing seals, it cannot be used for other purposes, and the household administration department has not intervened.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Capital Numbers