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How to write capital letters from one to ten in cursive script

The cursive writing of one, two, three, four, five, Lu, seven, eight, nine, and ten is as follows:

Capital numbers are a unique way of writing numbers in China, using and Chinese characters with the same pronunciation as the numbers replace the numbers to prevent numbers from being altered. According to research, capital numbers were first invented by Wu Zetian and later improved by Zhu Yuanzhang.

The use of uppercase numbers began in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang issued a decree because of the "Guo Huan Case", a major corruption case at that time, which clearly required that the numbers for accounting must be composed of "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, one hundred, "Thousand" was changed to "one, two, three, four, five, Lu, seven, eight, nine, ten, hundred (mo), thousand (qian)" and other complex Chinese characters to increase the difficulty of altering the account books. Later, "Mo" and "阡" were rewritten as "百、千" and are still used today.