Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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Bookreader Chinese 24
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Reference Number:
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Chinese Crawford 24
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Parent Work Title:
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Qian zi wen
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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千字文
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Translated Parent Work Title:
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The Thousand Character Text
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Date Created:
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1813
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Publication Details:
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Xia zhang 霞漳 [Fujian province?]
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Description:
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A text for primary education, consists of one thousand unique characters grouped into 250 lines with four characters each. Said to have been composed in the 6th century CE, earliest extant copies date from the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE), but original author or authors unknown. Used in primary education throughout East Asia up to the twentieth century, memorized by pupils. This version includes a full rendering of the One Hundred Surnames. Possibly carved in 1813 - Jiaqing era 癸酉 cycle year is listed.
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Language:
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Chinese
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Subject:
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Education
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Category of Material:
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Printed
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Technique Used:
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Woodcut (process)
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Item Height:
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172 mm
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Item Width:
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94 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2018-09-12
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2018-09
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Educational Notes:
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Chinese Educational Texts of the Late Qing Dynasty
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Academic Project Lead:
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Gregory Scott
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Educational Notes:
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Qing: China's multilingual empire exhibition
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Academic Project Lead:
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Julianne Simpson
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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