Before Arabic numerals were widely used, how did China count them?

China has written numbers for a long time, and now Arabic numerals are mainly used for internationalization and convenience ... In many other occasions, we still need to use Chinese characters to count ... one two three four five six seven eight nine is 10 million ... and Zhu Yuanzhang invented the capital letter 1, 234,567,890.

According to the Book of Changes, people in ancient China also "ruled the country by knots", that is, tied a knot on a rope to record events. Later, it was changed to "book deed", that is, it was carved on bamboo or wood with a knife, and a pen represented "one". Today, we in China often use the word "positive" to count. Each stroke represents "one". Of course, the word "positive" also contains the meaning of "five into one"