"Heaven and earth are mysterious, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are full, and the night is endless" comes from which work?

"Heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are like clouds, and they are listed in the morning and evening" comes from China's ancient enlightenment reading "Thousand Characters".

Source: Thousand Characters

Author: Zhou Xingsi

Year of Creation: Southern and Northern Dynasties

Qian Wen Zi is a rhyme book of 1000 words compiled by Zhou Xingsi, assistant minister of Liang Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. 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. The sentences are plain and easy to recite and remember, which is an influential children's enlightenment reading in China.

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.