The most famous large-scale ancient book Yongle Dadian

The most famous large-scale ancient book in China is Yongle Dadian. Wen Fu was compiled in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, formerly known as Literary Masterpiece. The book consists of 60 volumes and 22,877 volumes of text. It was packaged into 1 1095 volume, with about 370 million words. This is an encyclopedia of China.

There are seven or eight thousand ancient and modern books in it. Because of the historical catastrophe, most of them died in war, and there are less than 800 volumes.

And Yao are two great heroes who presided over the compilation of Yongle Dadian. Jie Jin was born in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. His talent was deeply appreciated by Ming Taizu Judy, and he was appointed to preside over the compilation of Yongle Dadian and A Record of Taizu. Yao was born in the third year of Yuan Dynasty, 34 years older than Bi. /kloc-became a monk at the age of 0/4, and became famous. Because Biography of Lienv should follow orthodoxy, Yao was asked to preside over the compilation of Yongle Dadian.

Its first compilation began in the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. Jie Jin, Hu Guang, Hu Yan, Yang Tuqi and others were in charge, and 147 people were convened to complete the compilation in the following year. However, the book did not accept Buddhism and Taoism at that time. In the third year of Yongle (1405), Yao and others were ordered to rewrite it. There are many books selected this time, and courtiers, scribes and old scholars participated in 2 169. After the completion of the Ming Dynasty in Yongle Dadian, two groups of calligraphers were recruited in various places to draw columns, clear books and dots.

Its scale is far ahead of all the books compiled by the previous generation, and it preserves the historical geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion and encyclopedic documents of China before14th century. It is the most famous large-scale ancient book in China.

According to statistics, there are as many as seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient books collected and preserved in Yongle Dadian, which is five or six times as many as before. For example, there are only over three thousand kinds of large-scale series compiled in Qing Dynasty, such as Yongle Dadian and Yongle Dadian.

Compared with the Encyclopedia compiled by Diderot in France and the Collection of Literature and Art in Britain, it is more than 300 years earlier and can be called the treasure of world cultural heritage.

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