Yongle ceremony is a literary masterpiece at the beginning. In July of the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1403), Ming Taizu Judy, Yao, Wang Jing, Zou Ji and others compiled large-scale books, and in November of the second year of Yongle (1404), they compiled literature collections.
Yongle Dadian is a large-scale book compiled by China in ancient times. The books included in Yongle Dadian have not been deleted or changed. It is a valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation and the largest encyclopedia in ancient China. There are as many as seven or eight thousand kinds of important ancient books in Yongle Dadian. From the pre-Qin Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, it can really be said that it covered the vastness of the universe and unified the similarities and differences between ancient and modern times. Many of the secret books before Song and Yuan Dynasties have been lost, which can be preserved and circulated. The collection of books includes: classics, history, philosophy, collections, Buddhism, Taoism, opera, vernacular, crafts, agriculture, medicine, literature and so on. The collected books are not easy to read a word, and they are compiled according to the whole book, the whole article or the whole paragraph, which further improves the documentary value of the preserved materials. The style of the book is "use rhyme to unify words and use words to finish things", which is very convenient to retrieve.
Yongle Dadian is a large-scale book compiled by China in ancient times, which is a precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. The text of the book is 22,877 volumes, with 60 volumes, divided into 1 1095 volumes, with a total word count of about 370 million. This book has preserved China's lost secrets since the pre-Qin, Song and Yuan Dynasties, and there are more than 8,000 kinds of ancient books in the early Ming Dynasty. It is the largest encyclopedia in ancient China.
Zheng he's voyages
1405 1 1 In July (the third year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty), Ming Taizu Chengzu ordered Zheng He to lead a huge fleet of more than 240 seagoing ships and 27,400 crew members to sail and visited more than 30 countries and regions in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean, which deepened the friendly relations between China and Southeast Asia and East Africa. From Liujiagang, Suzhou, to 1433 (eight years of Xuande in Ming Dynasty), it sailed eight times. For the last time, in April of eight years, Xuande returned to Guri and died on the ship. The folk story "Popular Romance of Sambo Eunuch's Journey to the West" calls his travel adventure Sambo Eunuch's Journey to the West.
Zheng He has been to more than 30 countries, including Java, Sumatra, Sulu, Pahang, Zhenla, Guri, Siam, Adan, Tian Fang, Zoufal, Hume, Mugushu, as far away as the east coast of Africa, the Red Sea, Mecca and possibly Australia. Zheng He brought giraffes from Africa in 14 14 (the 12th year of Yongle). Shen Du's Fu of Ruiying Qilin was painted by court painters in Ming Dynasty.
Definition of "Western Ocean": In the early Ming Dynasty, Borneo and Brunei were taken as the boundary, and the east was called Oriental Ocean and the west was called Western Ocean. Therefore, in the past, it was called the South China Sea and the Southwest China Sea, in the Ming Dynasty it was called the Eastern Ocean and the Western Ocean, and in the Gulf of Siam it was called the Rising Sea.
Reform the management of officials
During the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, due to the abolition of the prime minister system, the emperor directly led six departments, and the emperor had to deal with every detail himself. The emperor was very tired. During the reign of the Ming Dynasty, the civil service system was improved day by day, and then the prototype of the cabinet system was gradually formed in the court. This cabinet system was later imitated by western countries and continues to this day. However, the rank of the cabinet is not high, which generally needs Jishi Shu of imperial academy to exercise, thus forming the unspoken rule that "you can't join the cabinet unless you are Jishi Shu".
Move the capital to Beijing
Ming Chengzu moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing (formerly known as Beiping). It was named after the Yongle period. Beiping is the land where Zhu Dixing is king. He has been doing business here for more than 30 years and his rule is relatively stable. In addition, Beiping is located at the junction of northern agricultural and pastoral areas, with convenient transportation and dangerous situation. It is the trade center of Han and Mongolian, and also the political and military center of the north. Its capital is here, which can not only fight against the Mongols invading from the north, but also further control the northeast region, which is conducive to maintaining national unity. Therefore, after Judy acceded to the throne, she began to prepare to move the capital. In the first year of Yongle, Beiping was named Beijing, and Beiping House was changed to Shuntianfu. In four years, I was ordered to build the Beijing Palace in May next year. In nine years, Song Li, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was ordered to build a river. In May of 13th year, Xuan and others dug Qingjiangpu near Huai 'an, Pingjiang, and reopened the long-abandoned canal. In September of the eighteenth year, the imperial edict changed Nanjing to Beijing next year. /kloc-in October/February, the temple palace in the suburbs of Beijing was completed. /kloc-In the first month of 0/9, Judy made a pilgrimage to Yufeng Temple in the southern suburbs of Beijing. The major policy of moving the capital has been basically completed. From that time to the Ming Dynasty, Beijing was the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Tombs are located at the southern foot of Tianshou Mountain in Changping County, northern Beijing, about 50 kilometers away from the capital Beijing, with a mausoleum area of 120 square kilometers. Thirteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty were buried around them, collectively known as the Ming Tombs. The first tomb in the Ming Tombs is the Chang Ling of Emperor Yongle, the founder of the Ming Tombs.
In the fourth year of Yongle (A.D. 1406), Beiping officials began to recruit millions of craftsmen and civilian workers and formally built the Beijing Palace. Today, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Ancestral Temple (the Palace of Working People's Culture) and other large buildings that tourists see have all been built since then. His choice objectively left a valuable cultural heritage for future generations.
In the fifth year of Yongle, Queen Xu (the daughter of the founding star Xu Da) died. After careful consideration, Judy didn't build a tomb in Nanjing, but sent Shang Shu, the minister of rites, and Liao, the feng shui master of Jiangxi school, to Beijing to look for "auspicious land", which is usually called a treasure house of feng shui.
Build the Forbidden City
The Forbidden City in Beijing covers an area of 724,250 square meters, not counting the green belts of moats and city walls. The total area of the palace building is163,000m2. The Forbidden City is a rectangular city with a length of 96 1 m from north to south and a width of 753 meters from east to west. It is surrounded by a wall whose height exceeds 10 meter. The outer perimeter of the city wall is 3428 meters, and there is a moat with a width of 52 meters outside the wall, which is an important facility to protect the Forbidden City. There is a gate on each side of the city wall, with the meridian gate in the south, the Shenwu gate in the north, the Donghua gate in the east and the Xihua gate in the west. There are four beautifully designed turrets at the four corners of the city wall. The palaces in the Forbidden City are all made of wooden structures, with yellow glazed tile roofs, blue and white stone bases, and decorated with brilliant colorful paintings. Its plane layout, three-dimensional effect and majestic, grand, solemn and harmonious form can be said to be rare in the world. The collection of China's ancient architectural art is the concentrated expression of China's imperial power thought in the autocratic society for more than two thousand years. Like the imperial palace in China, the overall planning and architectural form of the Forbidden City completely obeyed and reflected the requirements of the ancient patriarchal clan system, highlighting the supreme imperial power.
The Forbidden City in Beijing was built in the fifth year of Yongle (1404 ~ 1424) and in the fifteenth to eighteenth years of Yongle. The whole construction project was built by the Marquis of Chen Gui, with Wu Zhong as the planner. From the fifth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1407), Ming Chengzu concentrated craftsmen throughout the country and recruited 200,000 to 300,000 migrant workers and military workers. 14 years later, this magnificent palace was built and became one of the most famous buildings in world history.