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The the Southern Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty (502-549), the staff outside Sanji assistant minister Zhou Xingsi Feng Huang life 1000 words selected from Wang Xizhi, codified for the "Thousand Character Classic".

      History of the beam "reads:" to the the Wang Xizhi book Thousand, Si-Yun Xing for the text. Outs of that good, plus give Jinbo. "Tang Dynasty" Book it real artistic process on the matter, the book said : Xiao yan to teach kings of calligraphy, Yin stone from the works of Wang Xizhi extension to a thousand different words, each word a piece of paper. Then no order the rubbings to Zhou Xingsi, he compiled the content of the verse. Zhou Xingsi night to finish editing, tired hair and beard were white.

      "Thousand Character Classic" Confucian theory as the key link, interspersed with a lot of common sense, to write four words Rhyme, very suitable for children's reading, and later became the history of education in ancient China's earliest and most successful enlightenment materials. Song and Ming until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Thousand Character Classic" and "Three Character Classic", "Family Names", together, constitute our people the most basic "three hundred thousand" enlightenment books. Old doggerel goes: "the children thirty-five side-by-side sit Baraka shouting" called also! Not only the Han nationality for children enlightenment materials, some fraternal peoples, and even spread to Japan. Meanwhile, the "Thousand Character Classic" has a unique position in the history of Chinese culture is an important carrier of the Chronicles of different schools calligrapher calligraphy. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, where the famous calligrapher varying book "Thousand Character Classic" body works handed down.