This piece of work is also known as the Thousand Character Classic, and actually does contain exactly 1000 unique characters. They are in the form of 125 four character couplets (125 * 4 * 2 = 1000). This piece of work can be found in any Chinese almanac or Tung Su in the form of the "Thousand Character Composition in Four Styles of Handwriting", namely regular, official, cursive and seal character forms. The first page (1a) and last page (14b) contain four couplets each, whilst every other page, (1b, 2a, 2b, 3a .... 14a) have four and a half couplets each. Below, we leave out the page numbering used in the Tung Su, but set out each line as four character couplets.

Thousand Character Composition in Four Styles of Handwriting

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