Literacy textbooks specially used for enlightenment have appeared in China for a long time. There are 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. 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.