Qian Zi Wen, formerly known as Qian Zi Wen, is a long poem written by Zhou Xingsi in the Southern Dynasties. It is an article composed of 1000 non-repetitive Chinese characters. It is said that Liang Wudi took a thousand fonts written by Wang Xizhi to let his relatives practice calligraphy. Later, he felt that there was no rhyme, so he ordered Zhou Xingsi (470-52 1) to compile an article.
The overall theme of Qian is clear, and the chapters and sentences come down in one continuous line, advancing layer by layer. The language is beautiful, the words are gorgeous, almost every sentence is quoted, and every word is used. There are Book of Changes, Huai Nan Zi, Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Spring and Autumn Annals, Filial Piety, Mencius, Historical Records, Shennong Herbal Classic, Guanzi, Everything is Wrong, Zhuangzi and so on.
Qian Wen Zi, with Confucianism as the main body, combined with natural, historical and social common sense, has profound implications, clear structure and concise and beautiful language, which can be said to be a four-character poem. It is an important enlightening reading for children's basic Chinese character teaching, and it is also called "300 Qian Qian" together with Saint Amethyst, Hundred Family Names and Hundred Poems. Money is incomparable to other books, and it is also recognized as a good training book.
Therefore, calligraphers of all ages competed to write, such as Zhi Yong, Huai Su, Ou Yangxun, Evonne, Zhao Meng and Wen Zhiming. At the same time, it has also attracted the attention of all countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters.
Creation background
Literacy textbooks specially used for enlightenment have appeared in China for a long time. There were Cang Xie and Gui Li in Qin dynasty, Fan Jiang in Sima Xiangru, Gu Xi in Jia's family, exhortation in Cai Yong and urgent chapter in You's family in Han dynasty, and in the Three Kingdoms period.
Although Urgent Chapter is a prominent primary school book after Cang Xie Pian, due to various problems in its circulation, its authority was not as good as before in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and some enlightenment books such as Gu Ting and Friends in this period were limited in readability. It is against this background that thousands of words came out.
In the Southern Dynasties, in order to teach Wang Xizhi calligraphy, Yin was asked to carve a thousand different words from Wang Xizhi's works, each with a piece of paper, and then these messy rubbings were given to him to weave them into rhymes with content. This is the Thousand-Character Works, which was circulated in 2 1 century for more than 400 years.