TY - BOOK AU - Zhou,Xingsi TI - 千字文 AV - PL PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Chinese language -- Readers N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Character_Classic; Release date is 2007-12-30; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24075 ER -