have also issued the stamps of the abacus music works involving abacus include 'My Good Fellow - Abacus', 'The Sound of Abacus', 'The Abacus Song' and so on.Ībacus has played a crucial role in the development of the Chinese economy. Abacus has also appeared in stamps in five other countries including Australia, Japan, Brunei, the Philippines, and Liberia. On March 8, 1975, China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a set of special stamps called 'Rural Female Teacher” with a total of four stamps, one of which was the teacher tutoring students to practice the abacus. Besides, an abacus was specially painted in Qi Baishi's 'Making a Fortune.' The abacus also appeared in the paintings and calligraphy works, such as 'The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival” of Zhang Zeduan, a famous scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the “Street Vendor’s Load” of Wang Zhenpeng, a painter of the early Yuan Dynasty. There are many descriptions of the abacus in many realistic literary works in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as the 'Stories to Awaken the World,” 'The Scholars,” 'Dream of Red Mansions' and so on.

In Chinese literature, the abacus is used in a variety of literary expressions, such as riddles, metaphor, display of task identity, representation of a person’s specific action and particular mood, etc. As a result, it has formed a unique abacus culture phenomenon closely related to the abacus. In China, the abacus has a broad mass base and social foundation and has had a profound impact on literary works, music creation, dance, painting, and other fields. Today, I would like to focus on the impact of abacus on China. Meanwhile, it also has a certain influence and promotion on the economic and cultural development of some other countries in the world. With its simple computing function and unique mathematical connotations, it is known as 'the oldest computer in the world.’ For a long time, abacus has played an important role in the development of China's society, economy, culture, and science. UNESCO introduced that abacus is a major invention in ancient China and has gone through a long period of more than 1,800 years.

Abacus is an outstanding cultural and scientific heritage of China and is regarded as the fifth great invention in China it is invented by Sage of Calculation Liu Hong summing up the experience of predecessors and has been invented for more than 1800 years.

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