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, 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.
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Xing si Bai fa
"Liang Shi" records: "Wang Xizhi's book has thousands of words, which makes it a text. Play it, call it good, and give it gold. " Nine History of Shangshu in Tang Dynasty handled this matter artistically. The book says: Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of A Liang, was a military man all his life, and he very much hopes that future generations can read more books in the Taiping period.
Because there was no suitable enlightenment book at that time, a civil servant named Yin derived 1000 unrelated words from the handwriting of Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in Jin Dynasty, and each word was accompanied by a piece of paper. Then teach word by word, but it's messy and difficult to remember.
Liang Wudi thought, if this one thousand words into an article, it would be great. So, he called Zhou Xingsi, his most trusted literary attendant, and expressed his thoughts, saying, "The Qing family is resourceful, and gave me an easy-to-understand enlightenment book by compiling these 1,000 words.".
Zhou Xingsi thought hard all night after he came home from the task. Fang is like a spring. He was very happy. He sang and wrote a book. In the end, this 1000 string became a four-character rhyme book with rich connotations.
After reading it, Liang Wudi was very surprised. Even if it is sent to engraving, it will be published in the world. Zhou Xingsi won the appreciation of Liang Wudi for his excellent work in compiling thousands of words, and promoted him to assist in writing national history. Zhou Xingsi became a book overnight, so he used his brain too much. The next day, his temples were all white.
Zhiyong monk
Wang Xizhi's seventh grandson, a monk named Zhiyong in the Sui Dynasty, practiced in yunmen temple for 30 years, and wrote 800 imperial copies of Thousand-Character Works, a real grass, which was distributed to temples in eastern Zhejiang. Because there are many book seekers, the threshold of residence has been trampled on many times, so it is wrapped in iron, which is called "iron threshold".
He used countless pens in his life, and the waste pens were piled into baskets and mountains. He wrote an inscription, buried it in the ground and named it "Huibi Tomb". His Thousand Characters is a biography of the Wangs, which has far-reaching influence. There are also carved stones in the forest of steles in Anbei.
Zhi Yong's great contribution in the history of China's calligraphy art has two aspects: first, he developed the purport of "eight methods of eternal words" and gradually became a master of literati in Sui and Tang Dynasties; Secondly, the temporary collection of thousands of words opened a style for later calligraphers to write thousands of words, which played a great role in the spread of thousands of words.
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