"The Thousand Character Essay" has been circulated for more than 1,500 years. Although the whole book only uses a thousand unique characters, it has considerable intellectual and artistic value. *** attaches great importance to "The Thousand Character Essay". He said that "The Thousand Character Essay" talked about astronomy, geography, agriculture, meteorology, minerals, special products, history, and cultivation. Many great calligraphers of past dynasties have written the Thousand-Character Classic in a variety of fonts, which has become a famous calligraphy handed down from generation to generation. It is said that in history, Zhong Yao, Zhou Xingsi, Xiao Zifan and others each wrote "Thousand Character Essays", but the only ones that have been handed down to this day are "Wang Xizhi Lin Zhong Yao Qianwen" and "Zhou Xingsi Ci Yun Wang Xizhi Qian Zi Essay". Although "The Thousand Character Essay" written by Xiao Zifan is recorded in the "Book of Liang", it is no longer recorded in the "Old Tang Book? Jingji Zhi" and is probably lost. Zhong Yao, a calligrapher during the Three Kingdoms period. The Frenchman Pelliot wrote "A Thousand-Character Wenkao" (see the 24th volume of "Tongbao" in 1925), which was determined to be written by Zhong Yao based on the "Zachao" collected in Dunhuang. However, there is no other historical data to prove it, and it is possible that the "Zachao" may have been mistakenly written. Some people also say that Zhong Yao's "Thousand Character Essay" was damaged by rain while fleeing from war in the late Western Jin Dynasty. Later, the calligrapher Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty re-edited and rewritten it, so it was called "Wang Xizhi Lin Zhong Yao Qian Wen". However, after careful examination and analysis by the modern calligrapher Zhang Boying, this calligraphy among various sets of calligraphy was judged to be a forgery. He said: How could there be a thousand words in Xi's time? There is no addition or deletion from the Zhou Xing original, but it is arbitrarily reversed to the point of being unreadable. After the Tang Dynasty, Li Xitai (Li Jianzhong, a calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty - the one who introduced the calligraphy) made mistakes and mistakenly marked Zhong and Wang's eyes. Since the Song Dynasty, "Yugang" and "Sanxi" have all been engraved in Xi's invitations. How absurd! The conclusion here: Zhong Yao did not write the "Thousand Character Essay", and naturally Wang Xizhi had no reason to write it. The Thousand-Character Classic, which has been handed down since the Southern Dynasties, was written by Xingsi of Liang Zhou Dynasty. Who is Zhou Xingsi? Why write "The Thousand Character Essay"? There are biographies in the forty-nine volumes of Zhou Xingsi's Liang Shu. He was an official in Liang Dynasty and was highly appreciated and praised by Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty Xiao Yan. He was mostly useful in writing. His "Ci Yun Wang Xi's Book Thousand Characters" is recorded in the "Book of Sui", "Jing Ji Zhi" of "Old Book of Tang", as well as "Yi Wen Zhi" of "New Book of Tang" and "History of Song Dynasty". There is also the Zhou version of the Thousand-Character Classic among the Dunhuang documents. As for why he wrote the "Thousand-Character Essay", we can find the answer from books such as Tang Li Chuo's "Shang Shu Gu Shi" and Wei Xuan's "Liu Guests' Jiahua Lu". It turns out that Emperor Wu of Liang ordered Yin Tieshi to add a thousand unique characters to the inscription written by Wang Xizhi for the princes to learn from. However, because the words were isolated and not related to each other, he summoned Zhou Xingsi and told him: If you are talented, please rhyme it for me. It only took Zhou Xingsi one night to prepare the order to present to Emperor Wu. This is the "Thousand-Character Classic" that has been handed down to this day. Zhou Qianwen's thoughtful and skillful composition, rich knowledge, and harmonious phonology make it suitable for children to memorize, so it has become a textbook for primary school students for thousands of years. In the era when the "Thousand Character Classic" was first published, there were several other enlightenment textbooks for family education, such as "Zi Xun", "Young Xun", "Zi Tong" and so on. History has cleared away the sand and kept it simple. The "Zi Xun" and others have been lost to oblivion. Only "The Thousand Character Classic" has been circulated from generation to generation. Which sand and gold can be judged?
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