Thousand-Character Essay

"The Thousand-Character Essay" was written by Xingsi of Liang Zhou in the Southern Dynasty by extracting one thousand different characters from Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and writing them in four-character rhyme. From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the late Qing Dynasty, "The Thousand Character Classic" has been popular for more than 1,400 years. It is the oldest and most influential literacy textbook in the world. In order to deepen children's understanding of it, this book specially adds these stories that have been passed down to this day after the paragraphs containing legends, myths and allusions, not only to expand children's horizons, but also to enhance the interest of the book. At the same time, these stories are also good content for parents and children to read together. Parents and friends can rely on these classic stories to review the long history and culture of the motherland with their children. In addition, the layout of this book has also been carefully arranged, using large characters, phonetic notations, detailed explanations, and pictures to increase children's reading interest. Most of the pictures use rich and diverse images of children in ancient times.