"Heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, and the universe is vast" is the first sentence of a thousand words. "Heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow" comes from the Book of Changes. In the Book of Changes, it is said that "heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow", but here it is changed to "heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow" for the sake of antithesis. This kind of quotation that does not change the ancient Chinese characters is the Ming quotation. Yuan Ye's Universe is from Huai Nan Zi and Tai Xuan Jing.
Huainanzi said that "the up and down direction is called Yu, and it has been called Zhou since ancient times". It was Yang Xiong of the Western Han Dynasty who wrote Taixuan Jing. The Taixuan Classic says "the boundary of the wild". Together, the two classic words are "the vastness of the universe". This way of quoting classics is called dark quotation, so these two sentences are classics.
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Qian Zi Wen is a rhyming style composed of 1000 Chinese characters compiled by Zhou Xingsi, assistant minister of Liang Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (before Sui and Tang Dynasties, words that didn't rhyme or contradict were called "pen" instead of "text"). Liang Wudi (502-549) ordered 65,438+0,000 non-repetitive Chinese characters to be selected from Wang Xizhi's calligraphy works, and ordered Zhou Xingsi, an assistant minister riding a horse outside Yuan Dynasty, to compile them.
The full text consists of four sentences, which are neat, clear and brilliant. Qian Wen Zi is an influential children's enlightenment book in China. It has simple sentences and is easy to recite and remember, and has been translated into English, French, Latin and Italian.