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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 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.
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.
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.