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  Thousand Character Classic
The Thousand Character Classic (千字文) is a Chinese poem used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children.
It is uncertain when the Thousand Character Classic was introduced to Korea, but some think that it may have been introduced long before the cultural flourishing of the kingdom of Baekje.
44 legends from "Cheon" (heaven) to "Su" (water) among "Thousand Character Classic" were inscribed one by one on the reverse of "Sangpyung Tongbo" (a Joseon Dynasty Korean coin).
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/th/thousand_character_classic.html   (574 words)

  
 Thousand_Character_Classic - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
The Thousand Character Classic is composed of 250 phrases of 4 characters each from "Tian Di Xuan Huang" (????) to "Yan Zai Hu Ye" (????).
The characters of the poem were sometimes used to represent the numbers from 1 through 1000 (for security against tampering/plagiarism), as described in this link for students: [http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/qianziwen.html Qianziwen].
Therefore, this account may be true but misdated, or may refer to a different version of the "Thousand Character Classic," or may be a fictional composite of various Baekje scholars that arrived in Japan around this time.
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Chinese characters were later introduced to the Japanese language, and there are historical similarities in the development of the hanja and kanji in their respective writing systems.
To aid in understanding the meaning of a character, or to describe it orally to distinguish it from other characters with the same pronunciation, character dictionaries and school textbooks refer to each character with a combination of its sound and a word indicating its meaning.
For example, the character 愛 is referred to in character dictionaries as sarang ae (사랑 애), where sarang is the native Korean word for "love" (the character's meaning) and ae is its sound.
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 Thousand Character Classic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Thousand Character Classic (千字文) is a Chinese poem used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children.
The characters of the poem were sometimes used to represent the numbers from 1 through 1000 (for security against tampering/plagiarism), as described in this link for students: mouse-over Qianziwen.
44 legends from "Cheon" (heaven) to "Su" (water) among "Thousand Character Classic" were inscribed one by one on the reverse of "Sangpyung Tongbo" (a Joseon Dynasty Korean coin).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thousand_Character_Classic   (890 words)

  
 San Zi Jing: The Three-Character Classic
The Sanzi Jing, usually translated as the Three-Character Classic, has been a required text for all Chinese children and was used in Taiwan at least as late as the 1960s.
The complete text is less than 1200 characters but in that limited space it manages to enumerate all of the salient features of the Confucian tradition.
Huang Xiang, one of the 24 classic examples of the filial piety, would cool down his parents' bed in the summer and warm in the winter.
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 Fun Bingo & Keno Facts and History
These characters are the first eighty of an ancient poem known as " The Thousand Character Classic ".
The Thousand Character Classic was used in China as a primer for teaching reading and writing to children.
This poem was so well known in China that its one thousand characters, arranged in order, were often used as a way of notation or counting from one to a thousand.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> hanja   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hanja are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese characters, although a few are variants that are also used in Japanese kanji.
Some characters that are not from China are sometimes used.
Each Hanja character is pronounced as a single syllable, corresponding to a single composite character in Hangul.
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 The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights
They contained the device of one of the 57 mints and also the number of the furnace from which the coin was cast and the serial "number" of the issue.
The latter was expressed as one of the first sixteen symbols in the classic book "The Thousand Character Classic" which served as indicators of ordinal position, in the same way as we use letters of the alphabet.
The smallest unit of currency was the mun, 100 moons made a yang, 10 yangs made a hvan.
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 Character - Classic Vs. Romantic
As soon as that which was classic became fashionable, artists began to forget to embody their thoughts and feelings in what they produced.
The classic tendency being that which inclines the artist to imitate forms and subjects of the past, the romantic has come to mean just the opposite,—namely, that which allows the form to be determined solely by the exigencies of expression and the expression solely by the exigencies of the period.
The same fact is still more evident when we consider that the forms and themes of all art of the highest character, whenever and wherever it appears, are developed upon lines of previously developed excellence; and that to model after others, even in a slight degree, is to manifest something of the classic tendency.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Free eBooks, eBooks for Palm, PocketPC, PC, & Mac
The parents' characters are greatly contrasted: Mr Bennet being a wise and witty gentleman; while Mrs Bennet is permanently distracted by the issue of marrying off her daughters at any cost.
First published in 1726, this classic work of satire presents a world gone haywire, where humans, despite their pomposity and grandiose illusions, are no better than weak and helpless fools.
Mansfield Park is highly regarded by Austen followers as a tale of character and sensibility very much along the lines of Emma and confronting similar issues of marriage and social class while acting as a serious critique of Regency values.
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 Exploring Chinese History :: Culture :: Chinese Literature :: Chinese Classic Texts
Chinese classics texts or Chinese canonical texts are the classical literature in the Chinese culture which are considered by Chinese culture to be one of the best or to be the most valuable.
The Classic of History (書經 Shū Jīng) is a collection of documents and speeches alleged to have been written by rulers and officials of the early Zhou period and before.
The Classic of Music (樂經) (Yueh Ching) is sometime referred to as the sixth classic, but is lost by the time of the Han dynasty.
www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/02cul/c02s04.html   (773 words)

  
 Keno
Hence they established a game of chance (to guess characters), by which they hoped to tempt the people to hazard their property.
They borrow the characters from the Thousand Character Classic, of which eighty are chosen and arranged after a new plan, ten characters forming one division, which the people are permitted to purchase for more or less (for whatever they please.)
When they guess five characters they gain five lí; when six characters they gain five candareens; when seven characters they gain five mace; when eight characters they gain two taels and five mace; when nine characters they gain five taels; when ten characters they gain ten taels.
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 China the Beautiful :: View topic - Origin of Thousand Character Essay: Han, Xianbei or Mongol
The popular story about the origin of the Thousand Character Essay 千字文(also called Thousand Character Classic) is that the Southern Dynasty 南朝 Emperor Liang Wu Ti 梁武帝 (reign 502-549) asked the famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi 王羲之; to select a thousand Chinese characters for the scholar Zhou Xingsi 周興嗣 to compose an essay.
It is in the form of 125 four character couplets and was been memorised by generations of Chinese children throughout history, though not all the wise meanings could be distilled into their innocent brains.
During the Qing Dynasty, the third character of the first line, 玄 (fl), was substituted by the character 元 (original) because the Kangxi Emperor was called Xuan Hua 玄樺.
www.chinapage.org /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1634   (1142 words)

  
 The History of Keno and the Chinese Lottery
The purpose of this lengthy rhyme was to teach children the thousand characters that they needed to learn to read.
This poem is known as "The Thousand Character Classic" and contained one thousand non-repeating rhymes.
He employed the first 120 characters of the Thousand Character Classic to create a system of betting.
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 Three Character Classic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Three Character Classic, Trimetric Classic or San Zi Jing (Traditional Chinese: 三字經; Simplified Chinese: 三字经) is one of the Chinese classic texts.
The work is not one of the traditional six Confucian classics, but rather the embodiment of Confucian thought suitable for teaching young children.
The Three Character Classic in Chinese with the Herbert Giles English Translation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Character_Classic   (487 words)

  
 14G Gambling Guide: History of Games: History of Keno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rather than numbers 1 through 80, the first eighty characters of "The Thousand Character Classic" were used in the body of the keno ticket.
The "Thousand Character Classic" was used in China as the second primer for teaching reading and writing to children.
This poem was so well known in China that its one thousand characters, arranged in order, were often used as a fanciful way of notation or counting from one to a thousand.
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 Culture: Men
The jin-shi exam was based on a person's ability to write essays and poems to set topics and differed in that respect to the less prestigious exam of memorizing the Confucian Classics.
It is believed that Empress Wu was the first to introduce classical poetry as part of the examination.
Education began at the age of four when a young boy was taught to read and write, by seven he would begin memorizing the Thousand Character Classic, a Confucian essay.
library.thinkquest.org /C004096/cmen.htm   (346 words)

  
 Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Review / Preview for the GameCube (GC)
It features new characters and many, if not all, of the characters that you came to know and love throughout the series.
The characters have much more personality and dimension to them, which makes it all the more compelling since we have known many of them for years.
Character interaction is essential to unravel the story and clues to the locations of the seven crystals.
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 Peppermill Reno Hotel Casino - (866) 821-9996 | Keno History
The Thousand Character Classic was used in China as the second primer for teaching reading and writing to children.
This poem was so well known in China that its one thousand characters, arranged in order, were often used as a fanciful way of notation or counting from one to a thousand.
While the use of these characters on a Keno ticket is merely to represent numbers, some Chinese people select the character marked for the word meaning.
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 The History of Keno
Keno is one of the oldest games in the casinos, and as you would expect in a game that has existed for more than three thousand years, there are not a few discrepancies in what we know about the history of keno.
The game was based on a popular poem at the time, "The Thousand Character Classic." This poem was, and is today, a popular way for people to lean how to count, using one thousand Chinese symbols, none of them repeating itself.
Incidentally, this same game is still played today in china, only the number of characters used from the "thousand character classic" has been reduced to eighty.
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 Keno History | Online-Keno.com - your online source of keno information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Instead of using the numbers 1 through 80 on the ticket, each field was represented with a character, all of which were taken from the famous poem 'The Thousand Character Classic'.
The fact that not one of the thousand characters was mentioned more than once was recognized as a great achievement.
The characters were organized in a way that rhymed and made the poem easier to remember but being able to recite it on your own was a skill in itself.
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 Classic Chinese World Literature Literature Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Keno History | keno-info.com - Your Online Keno Headquarters with tips, downloads, rules, history, strategies and more
The 'thousand character classic' as it is known is a set of independent characters placed in a rhymed form.
Originally as many as 120 characters were used in the game, only after it left china would the number drop to a more familiar 80.
In classic American style, when gambling was legalized in the state of Nevada in 1931 the fact that lotteries were not covered under the legislature discouraged no one.
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 IGN: Thousand Arms Review
But, the twist in Thousand Arms is that all Spirit Blacksmiths, being male, must find plenty of women to help them "strengthen" their tools -- an aspect of the craft that the Triumph family is known for taking to the nth degree.
Since the lead character is the only party member able to physically attack the enemy, random stock battles will get pretty tedious at times and the entire structure doesn't provide for much flexibility.
Thousand Arms as a whole is a distinctly anime-type RPG, from it's character designs to the visual style to the themes that it explores.
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 FanPro's Official Classic Battletech Website
Classic BattleTech Technical Readout: 3025 is the first in the series and represents the ’Mechs and technology available in the era as found in the Classic BattleTech Introductory Rulebook and the Classic BattleTech Universe book.
The Classic BattleTech Universe free PDF presents a history of the Inner Sphere, as well as short synopsis of the primary factions of the universe, bringing a player up-to-date circa 3067.
Classic BattleTech has always been a dynamic universe with progressing storylines that shake things up, uniting and shattering factions, developing characters into beloved (or despised) icons that wage a valiant struggle or die a glorious death.
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 Chinese Text Sampler: Readings in Chinese Literature, History, and Popular Culture
One of the characters featured in the selected chapter is Cheng Ji Si Han, the first emperor of Yuan dynasty.
The determined efforts of the principal characters to sustain some degree of dignity and normalcy in their lives make for a damning critique of an intrusive political system whose methods and ideologies seem at times to border on the insane.
These 300 characters, because they are so widely used in various combinations, account for approximately 65% of the characters encountered in a typical Chinese newspaper.
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The local character of the more than 500 antiwar events planned nationally this weekend to mark the third anniversary of the invasion is yet another example of the widening of dissatisfaction with the president's war.
He said the detention camp was a stain on the character of the United States as a superpower and a democracy.
To deepen their understanding of their characters, the boys pored through articles in Pakistani newspapers, studied the international press and surfed Web sites, including one that described itself as a nonsectarian Islamic human rights portal and is called cageprisoners.com.
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 Classics in the History of Psychology -- Eysenck (1957)
[Classics Editor's note: The one footnote in this article has been enclosed in curly brackets, to distinguish it from the reference notes, which are enclosed in square brackets, as in the original.
The results of nineteen studies reported in the literature, covering over seven thousand cases, and dealing with both psychoanalytic and eclectic types of treatment, are quoted in detail in Table 1.
A somewhat greater degree of subjectivity is probably implied in the writer's judgment as to which disorders and diagnoses should be considered to fall under the heading of "neurosis." Schizophrenic, manic-depressive, and paranoid states have been excluded; organ neuroses, psychopathic states, and character disturbances have been included.
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