This sentence was written by Zhou Xingsi, assistant minister of Liang riding in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. 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, which are neat, clear and brilliant.
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 in the article should not be repeated, but the word "Xie" was repeated when compiling the article (Xie Hehuan is a synonym variant). 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.
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The first part of "Thousand Characters" begins with the creation of heaven and earth. With heaven and earth, there will be changes in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, rain, frost and fog and the four seasons of cold and heat; There will be jade, iron (sword), treasures, melons and fruits, vegetables, rivers and lakes, birds and fish; People and times have also changed between heaven and earth.
Here, Qian Wen Zi tells the story of the early history of mankind and the performance of Shang Tang and Zhou Wuwang in their heyday, that is, "sitting in the morning and asking questions, hanging down the arch and leveling the chapter" and loving Li Shou, I will be rich and strong. Distance brings guests to the king. Ming-feng is eating the fields with the white pony in the tree. Vegetation depends on ten thousand square meters. "
The second part focuses on the cultivation standards and principles of Qian narrator, that is, cultivation time. It is pointed out that people should be filial to their parents, cherish the body handed down by their parents, "only dare to respect, not to damage it", "overcorrect", keep his word, keep innocence, and establish a good image and reputation. "The messenger can answer, but the device is unpredictable."
This is the meaning of the following four sentences: "Mo Xiang worries about silk dyeing, and poetry praises the lamb." Then, the article expounds loyalty, filial piety and people's etiquette, making friends and loyalty in depth.