Thousand Character Classic: Bilingual Edition, Chinese and English 千字文: Pinyin Edition with Modern English Translation
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Thousand Character Classic: Bilingual Edition, Chinese and English 千字文: Pinyin Edition with Modern English Translation
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.