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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, with neat antithesis, clear organization and brilliant literary talent.
Thousands of words are easy to understand, easy to memorize and remember, translated into English, French, Latin and Italian, and are very influential children's enlightenment books 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.
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Zhou Xingsi (469-537) was born in Renxiang and Chenjun (now shenqiu county, Henan). Living in Jiangnan (now Dangtu, Anhui). Ministers and historians of the Southern Dynasties.
Knowledgeable and good at writing. Liang Wudi ascended the throne and became the assistant minister of the kingdom. Every time the emperor gave an order, he promoted his successors to Wen, such as Jin Wen, Men Chi, Wei Wen and Er Yun Wang Xizhi. Every time you play, you say yes, and the official gives it strength. He wrote more than 100 volumes of emperor's memoirs, emperor's virtue records, residence notes, official ceremonies, etc. , and wrote ten volumes of anthology, spread thousands of words through the ages. Liang Wudi Datong died on July 15 three years ago.
Zhou Xingsi, whose ancestral home was Xiangcheng and Chenjun, moved to Gushu (now dangtu county, Anhui) in the south of the Yangtze River when he was crossing Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty. Shi Jing Jiankang,/kloc-started to come to Nanjing at the age of 0/3 and studied in Nanjing. After more than ten years, he has mastered the writing of various chronicle articles.
During his study tour, he stayed in a hotel in Suzhou, Jiangsu. At night, he heard someone say to him, "You have just learned the way of the world, and you will soon meet a distinguished minister, and finally you will be reused by a wise monarch." But until the voice disappeared, he couldn't hear the speaker.