Thousand-character essay, written by Zhou Xingsi, assistant minister of Liang Dynasty in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, has a total of 1000 words. Liang Wudi (502-549) ordered people to select 65,438+0,000 non-repetitive Chinese characters 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, with neat antithesis, clear organization and brilliant literary talent. 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.
The word 1000 should not be repeated, but Zhou Xingsi repeated the word "clean" when writing an article. Therefore, "Thousand Characters" actually only used 999 words. After simplifying Chinese characters and merging variant characters in Chinese mainland, there are more than 990 different Chinese characters left in the simplified Chinese version.