The Thousand Character Classic is a Chinese poem used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250...

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The Thousand Character Classic is a Chinese poem used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four characters apiece and grouped into four line rhyming stanzas to make it easy to memorize. It is sung in a way similar to children learning the Latin alphabet singing an "alphabet song." Along with the Three Character Classic and the Hundred Family Surnames, it formed the basis of literacy training in traditional China.

This edition contains Chinese and English side-by-side for easy reference and language support. Pinyin is included with the characters for easy pronunciation and character reference.

《千字文》原名為《次韻王羲之書千字》,南朝梁(502年─549年)周興嗣所作的一首長韻文。它是一篇由一千個不重複的漢字組成的文章。據說是梁武帝取了王羲之寫的一千個字體,令其親人練習書法,而後覺得雜亂無章,於是又命周興嗣(470年─521年)編為一篇文章。

《千字文》全篇主題清晰,章句文理一脈相承,層層推進,語言優美,詞​​藻華麗,幾乎是句句引經,字字用典。出典包括《易經》、《淮南子》、《詩經》、《尚書》、《禮記》、《春秋》、《論語》、《孝經》、《孟子》、《史記》、《神農本草經》、《管子》、《韓非子》、《莊子》、《漢書》。[2]《千字文》以儒家思想為主體,兼納自然、歷史、社會常識,寓意深刻、結構清晰、語言簡明優美,可以說是一首四言長詩。是用來教授兒童基本漢字之重要啓蒙讀物,和《三字經》、《百家姓》合稱“三百千”。《千字文》是其他幾篇也被公認為不錯的訓蒙讀物不能比的。所以歷代書法家都競相書寫,如智永、懷素、歐陽詢、趙佶、趙孟頫、文徵明等都有留傳至今的帖本。同時在漢字文化圈各國也受到重視。


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