千字文 by Xingsi Zhou
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"千字文" by Xingsi Zhou is a Chinese poem composed in the sixth century. It contains exactly one thousand unique characters arranged into rhyming stanzas, created to teach children literacy. Each character appears only once in this carefully structured text. The work became one of the most widely read texts in China's first millennium, forming the foundation of traditional education alongside two other classical primers. Its thousand unique characters made it a favorite
among calligraphers throughout East Asian countries for centuries. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zhou, Xingsi, -521 |
|---|---|
| Title | 千字文 |
| Alternate Title | Qian Zi Wen |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Character_Classic |
| Language | Chinese |
| LoC Class | PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| Subject | Chinese language -- Readers |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 23912 |
| Release Date | Dec 19, 2007 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 314 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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