千字文 by Xingsi Zhou

"千字文" by Xingsi Zhou is a Chinese poem composed in the sixth century. It contains exactly one thousand unique characters arranged into memorable four-character lines that rhyme. Created to teach children Chinese literacy, it became one of the most widely read texts in China's first millennium. Each character appears only once, making it a masterpiece of linguistic craftsmanship and a favored text for calligraphers across East Asia for over a millennium. (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. 24075
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Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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