The Thousand-Character Classic is one of the three major reading materials for traditional Chinese elementary education. Each sentence in the full text of the Thousand-Character Classic has only four characters. It not only has neat correspondences, but also has very clear organization, making it very easy to remember and recite. It is a very influential enlightenment book. So what is the origin of the Thousand-Character Classic?
1. The Thousand-Character Text appeared because Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty ordered Yin Tieshi to rub a thousand different characters from Wang Xizhi’s calligraphy in order to let the kings learn calligraphy. Let Zhou Xingsi turn a thousand-character essay into a rhyme with content.
2. In this way, the Thousand-Character Classic was created and circulated for more than a thousand years. Every word in the Thousand-Character Text should not be repeated, but during compilation, the word "jie", which is a synonym for "絜", was repeated. Later, after simplified Chinese characters were implemented, there were only more than 990 characters in the Thousand-Character Text. It's different.
The above is an introduction to the origin of the Thousand-Character Classic. I hope it will be helpful to friends in need.