提起以物记数,人们就想象到原始人“击石取火,积物记数”的生活情景。在现代科学文化高度发展的当今,一般的人皆用文字记数写算,少数文盲虽无使用文字的能力,却也不知道什么是以物记数。但以物记数的历史残存现象至今并未完全灭绝。 居住在黔西南的黔东方言苗族结婚时,由新娘的舅舅备一截长二至三尺,直径一寸许的竹棒,上标有度数一至四十,尤如称杆。棒上刻出女方家要求的聘金数,然后用刀将竹棒破缝不通底,划破的一头用红线扎紧。待男方家来接亲时,在宴席上,由女方的舅舅拿出,双方协商达成协议,男方付清所记聘礼后,破竹为二,男女双方各存一半,也作婚姻的把凭, Mention the object count, people imagine the primitive “hit the stone, plot count” of life scenarios. In today’s highly developed modern science and culture, the average person writes in written numbers. Although a small number of illiterates do not have the ability to use words, they do not know what counts as material objects. However, the historical remnants of object counts have not been completely extinct so far. When the Qiandong dialect Miao living in southwestern Guizhou was married, the uncle of the bride prepared a bamboo rod with a length of two to three feet and a diameter of one inch, marked with a scale of one to forty, especially as a rod. Carved the number of women requested the bride bar, and then use a knife to pierce the bamboo sticks at the end of the pierced one with a red tie tight. When the man’s family to pick the relatives, at the banquet, taken out by the woman’s uncle, the two sides reached an agreement after consultation, the man paid off after the hiring ceremony, breaking into two, both men and women save each other, but also for marriage,