Qingwei | small abacus and big feelings

The abacus should be counted as an antiquities forgotten by history.

The abacus of the mainland evolved from the ancient "calculation", "calculation" is the use of a bamboo stick as a chip to calculate, after a thousand years of evolution into an abacus, it undertakes the calculation function of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and has played a good role in promoting the economic development of the millennium. It is out of people's sight, no longer competent for the function of computing, and it is only the situation of these ten years.

At that time, I just went to work, saw the old colleagues, one hand flipped the summons, the other hand dialed the abacus beads, five fingers like meteors as lightly crossed each arithmetic beads, "crackling" hand stopped, those beads were placed in front of me, the results of the calculation came out, see here, my whole person was blindfolded, I only in the third grade of primary school, I took a few abacus lessons, are simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within ten.

After more than ten years, I actually met it again, it is really impossible to escape the fate, although its structure is simple, but really play the abacus, especially the requirements are fast and punctual, it is not a simple thing, nor can it be practiced overnight, so the practice plan is imminent, for the brain-eye hand uncoordinated self, is a big challenge, often practice the hands are chaotic brain stiffness, and finally the calculation results are varied, can't help but laugh a few times, I wanted to abandon the abacus and use the calculator directly, But seeing that everyone is using the abacus to calculate accounts, I can't be special! In the end, the decision was still to be consistent with everyone, so I competed with the abacus every day, played the abacus again, because I was not sure, so I played again, using the way of repetition and repetition, slowly improving the ability to plan the disk, barely coping with the complicated accounting work.

When I practice abacus, I often think of my grandfather's big abacus when I was a child, the big abacus can only dial it at once, he was the accountant in the flour factory in the village, the table, the abacus was shallowly paved with a layer of white noodles, every time someone carried the flour bag of the scale to check out, Grandpa would shake its big abacus, float down a layer of mist-like white noodles, flatten, stroke each bead with his hand, start dialing the beads against the checkout list, and from time to time he was chanting, calculating the money three times and five times, taking the money, taking the money, Then dial the beads back one by one, and finally flick it gently, revealing the number of money to be found. At the time, it felt like he was treating a work of art, seriously and slowly. I didn't expect that decades later, I would also face the abacus, but it became smaller, more dexterous, and people beat faster.

More than ten years ago, in the face of the newly emerging computer, still holding a small abacus in the hand, before it completely withdrew from the stage of history, it became a foil for computing, and in the skill competition held every year, there were both abacus competitions and small keyboard competitions, with the increasing update of computer technology, slowly, it was completely eliminated, left in the corner by people, and finally even traced. Only in some nostalgic theme scene arrangements, will you stumble upon the abacus hanging on the wall or placed on the old wooden table, silently telling the bits and pieces of time spent.

The law of history is not to be bypassed, there are always new things born, there are always old things are eliminated, some items can only be used to remember, they carry a piece of historical time story, occupy an indispensable position in that period of history, with the development of economy and society, the disappearance will inevitably disappear, but people's memories will not disappear, every time you see those old items, there is always a sense of déjà vu, sighing the passage of time at the same time, but also clearly feel the irreversible river of history, with its unstoppable power, Run forward.

Author: Gao Gaoyu, a member of the Shandong Prose Literature Association, has published many articles in internal magazines and provincial and municipal public accounts, and published many articles in Shandong Financial Literature One Point.

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