1? Line 1天地玄黃 /

2? Line 2宇宙洪荒 /

3? Line 3日月盈昃 /

4? Line 4辰宿列張 /

5? Line 5寒來暑往 /

6? Line 6秋收鼕藏 /

7? Line 7閏餘成歲 /

8? Line 8律呂調陽 /

9? Lines 9 & 10雲騰致雨， 露結為霜 /

10? Lines 11 & 12金生麗水， 玉出昆岡 /

11? Lines 13 & 14劍號巨闕， 珠稱夜光 /

12? Lines 15 & 16果珍李柰， 菜重芥姜 /

13? Lines 17 & 18海咸河淡， 鱗潛羽翔 /

14? Lines 19 & 20龍師火帝， 鳥官人皇 /

15? Lines 21 & 22始制文字， 乃服衣裳 /

16? Lines 23 & 24推位讓國， 有虞陶唐 /

17? Lines 25 & 26弔民伐罪， 周發殷湯 /

18? Lines 27 & 28坐朝問道， 垂拱平章 /

19? Lines 29 & 30愛育黎首， 臣伏戎羌 /

20? Lines 31 & 32遐邇一體， 率賓歸王 /

21? Lines 33 & 34鳴鳳在竹， 白駒食場 /

22? Lines 35 & 36化被草木， 賴及萬方 /

23? Lines 37 & 38蓋此身發， 四大五常 /

24? Lines 39 & 40恭惟鞠養， 豈敢毀傷 /

25? Lines 41 & 42女慕貞潔， 男效纔良 /

26? Lines 43 & 44知過必改， 得能莫忘 /

27? Lines 45 & 46罔談彼短， 靡恃己長 /

28? Lines 47 & 48信使可覆， 器欲難量 /

29? Lines 49 & 50墨悲絲染， 詩贊羔羊 /

30? Lines 51 & 52景行維賢， 克念作聖 /

31? Lines 53 & 54德建名立， 形端表正 /

32? Lines 55 & 56空谷傳聲， 虛堂習聽 /

33? Lines 57 & 58禍因惡積， 福緣善慶 /

34? Lines 59 & 60尺璧非寶， 寸陰是競 /

35? Lines 61 & 62資父事君， 曰嚴與敬 /

36? Lines 63 & 64孝當竭力， 忠則盡命 /

37? Lines 65 & 66臨深履薄， 夙興溫? /

38? Lines 67 & 68似蘭斯馨， 如松之盛 /

39? Lines 69 & 70川流不息， 淵澄取映 /

40? Lines 71 & 72容止若思， 言辭安定 /

41? Lines 73 & 74篤初誠美， 慎終宜令 /

42? Lines 75 & 76榮業所基， 籍甚無竟 /

43? Lines 77 & 78學優登仕， 攝職從政 /

44? Lines 79 & 80存以甘棠， 去而益詠 /

45? Line 81樂殊貴賤 /

46? Line 82禮別尊卑 /

47? Lines 83 & 84上和下睦， 夫唱婦隨 /

48? Lines 85 & 86外受傅訓， 入奉母儀 /

49? Lines 87 & 88諸姑伯叔， 猶子比兒 /

50? Lines 89 & 90孔懷兄弟， 同氣連枝 /

51? Lines 91 & 92交友投分， 切磨箴規 /

52? Lines 93 & 94仁慈隱惻， 造次弗離 /

53? Lines 95 & 96節義廉退， 顛沛匪虧 /

54? Lines 97 & 98性靜情逸， 心動神疲 /

55? Lines 99 & 100守真志滿， 逐物意移 /

56? Lines 101 & 102堅持雅操， 好爵自縻 /

57? Li

The Verse of One Thousand Characters is the oldest enlightenment textbook in China？ It came into being earlier than the other enlightenment textbooks such as The Three？Character a Line Chant and Family Names in Hundreds. It has been used as a primer to teach children characters？We know for sure who the poet was and when it was composed？We don？t have definite knowledge of who the authors were of the Three and the Hundred and when they were written？Some people refer to it as “One Thousand Character Classic”？Even though it has been in existence for over 15 centuries and its readership is the biggest, it is not proper to regard it as a “classic”？


《千字文》是中國早的啟蒙讀物。它的問世要早於《三字經》和《百家姓》。它是用來教孩子們認字的。我們知道其作者是誰以及創作的時間。至於“三”和“百”是誰寫的，何時寫成，我們了解得並不確切。有人在英文裡將《千字文》稱為“經”。盡管它已存世15個世紀之久，並且其讀者是多的，但是稱其為“經”還是不合適的。


The reasons for the author to give a paraphrase of the Verse are the following: firstly, it tells us what the most important one thousand characters are for the Chinese people？ The Verse was intended to teach children how to write in the past 15 centuries？ The one thousand characters were chosen by Yin Tieshi (殷鐵石) ， a literary assistant in the imperial court of the Southern Dynasty, on orders of Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝， 464549), for children of the royal family to learn？
筆者之所以要譯注這本書，原因如下：，它告訴我們中國人首先要認識的重要的一千個字有哪些。在過去的15個世紀裡，這本書主要用來教孩子們認字。這些字初是由南朝皇宮裡的文學侍從殷鐵石，按照梁武帝（464?D549）的旨意，為了教皇家兒童認字找出來的。

However, these characters were not related to each other and it was difficult for children to remember？ The Emperor then asked Zhou Xingsi (周興嗣) to piece these characters together？ Zhou was at that time a middle ranking officer among the retinue of advisors on horse？backs when the emperor was on a tour？ It took Zhou only one night to render the one thousand characters into a four？character？a？line verse？The next day, when the Emperor read it, he was amazingly surprised and ordered to have it printed？ Since then,the Verse has been on the lips of Chinese peop