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, with neat antithesis, clear organization and brilliant literary talent.
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.
After simplifying Chinese characters and merging variant characters in Chinese mainland, there are more than 990 different Chinese characters left in the simplified Chinese version.