三字经 (Sānzìjīng) / Three-Character Canon. Essay of One Thousand Characters

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The Three-Character Canon can be called a most popular and influential enlightening work in China. The author is generally considered to be Wang Yinglin (1223-1296), a learned scholar in the South Song Dynasty. As a matter of fact, however, the embryonic form of the Three-Character Canon had emerged before Wang Yinglin published it. Essay of One Thousand Characters was composed by Zhou Xingsi in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties period, about 1,500 year ago. As The History of Liang and some other history books have it, for the purpose of educating his son.