Ten books on calculation refer to ten famous mathematical works written in the Han and Tang Dynasties more than 1000 years ago. They were the textbooks of mathematics in imperial academy during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The names of these ten books are Zhou Pian ·suan Jing, Nine Chapters of Arithmetic, Arithmetic of Island, Arithmetic of Zhang Qiujian, Arithmetic of Xiahou Yang, Arithmetic of Five, Arithmetic of Ancient Times and Composition.

In the Ming Dynasty, due to social reasons such as insufficient attention, these ten arithmetic classics were almost lost. It was not until the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty that the Ten Calculations Classic was compiled and published due to the compilation of Sikuquanshu and the rise of the Ganjia school. At that time, there were seven kinds of woodcuts found in the Southern Song Dynasty (all of which were isolated copies), including Zhou Xie, Nine Chapters (only the first five chapters were incomplete), Sun Tzu, Cao Wu, Xiahou Yang and Zhang Qiujian, whose copies were in the Qing Dynasty and were kept in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Since then, except one kind of Xiahou Yang has disappeared, the other six kinds of Southern Song Dynasty block prints have been collected by bibliophiles and kept in Shanghai Library and Peking University Library respectively.

When Dai Zhen, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, participated in the editing of Sikuquanshu, he copied seven kinds from Yongle Dadian in Ming Dynasty, such as Zhou Zhuan, Nine Chapters, Sun Zi, Cao Wu, Xiahou Yang, Island and Five Classics, and copied from Zhang Qiujian and Zhang Qiujian, which should be copied in Song Dynasty. Seven kinds copied from Yongle Dadian have also been printed in Wuyingtang Juzhen Edition.