The Thousand Character

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The Thousand Character Classic (千字文) is a Chinese poem used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children. It contains exactly one thousand unique characters. It is said that Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty (r. 502-549) commissioned 周興嗣 (pinyin: Zhou Xingsi, jyutping: Zau Hing Zi) to compose this poem for his prince to practice calligraphy. 


Make a rubbing of a stone inscription.
Original image of great calligraphy style font.
Chinese pronunciation. 
A quarter of a thousand words. 


Many Chinese characters have different meanings in the same shape and same meanings in the different shape.
This book was recorded one most appropriate meaning from many meanings of the word from the sentence.