The origin of "The Thousand-Character Essay"
"The Thousand-Character Essay" is the most famous children's cultural textbook in the history of our country. Later, following the example of "Thousand Character Classic", he successively compiled "Hundred Family Surnames" and "Three Character Classic" - also known as "Three Hundred Thousand". After thousands of years of teaching practice, among many enlightenment books, only "Three Hundred Thousand" is the most popular and popular.
"The Thousand-Character Essay". It was compiled by Zhou Xingsi in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and has a history of more than 1,400 years. The compilation process is quite interesting. According to Li Chuo's "Shang Yi Gu Shi" of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Liang ordered Yin Tieshi to carve out a thousand unique characters in Wang Xizhi's calligraphy for the kings to copy. After drawing out a thousand characters, Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty felt that "each character was a piece of paper and was messy and disorderly", so he ordered his literary attendant Zhou Xingsi to weave the thousand characters into meaningful and rhyming sentences. Zhou Xingsi "went to work overnight, and his hair on the temples turned white"; this shows how much thought the author spent on writing this eternal masterpiece!
"The Thousand-Character Essay" is exquisitely conceived, well-circulated, powerful, coherent, witty, and brilliant. It uses neat dialogue, catchy words, and rhymes to narrate the stories about nature, society, history, The knowledge of geography, ethics, education, anecdotes of characters, as well as the principles of life and doing things are truly unique in their knowledge and artistry.
Famous calligraphers from past dynasties, such as Huai Su, Ouyang Xun, Zhao Ji, Zhao Meng, Wen Zhengming, etc., competed to write the "Thousand Character Essay" as a model for calligraphy, thus further enhancing its reputation. Not only popular in the country, but also spread far and wide overseas. It is widely spread in Japan, North Korea and other countries and has a great influence.