Editor of Yongle Dadian

The editor of Yongle Dadian was Yao and an official in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty.

Jie Jin is the editor-in-chief of Yongle Dadian. It took him six years to write this voluminous book. At first, when Jie Jin compiled this grand ceremony, only 147 people were used, but with the deepening of the compilation work, the number of people involved in editing gradually increased, eventually reaching more than 3,000 people.

Yao is one of the supervisors. Yongle five years finalized, personally preface. Under Yao's leadership, the editorial team expanded to 265,438+096, making it the largest editorial team in the Ming Dynasty.

The content of Yongle Dadian covers the knowledge wealth of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, such as classics, history, philosophers, collections, astronomy and geography, Yin and Yang medicine, divination, interpretation of Tibetan scriptures, drama, crafts, agriculture and so on. A total of 22,877 volumes (60 volumes in the catalogue, * * * 22,937 volumes), 1 1095 volumes, about 370 million words. This ceremony is one of the earliest, largest and most extensive encyclopedias in the world.

In addition, the compilation of Yongle Dadian was supported and valued by Ming Taizu Judy. Determined to write a masterpiece of national prestige, Yao was appointed as the producer and fully supported the compilation work of others.

The creative background of Yongle Dadian;

The creation background of Yongle Dadian originated from the political needs of Judy, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. After Judy acceded to the throne, she decided to create an encyclopedia with large scale and rich contents, so as to include the knowledge of various fields in China at that time. He recruited elite intellectuals at that time, including Wang Yan, Xu Zhen, Cheng Dachang, Sun Benchu, Xie and others, to form a compilation team, and collected all kinds of documents and materials nationwide, from which valuable materials were selected and constantly supplemented and improved.

Judy seized the throne from her nephew by force. Under the background of prevailing Neo-Confucianism at that time, many courtiers and intellectuals thought it was contrary to common sense and guilty of insurrection. Judy took a combination of kindness and compassion to those who refused to join, and killed those who refused to join. But from this, Judy also realized that killing could not fundamentally solve the problem of ideological understanding. In order to eliminate the influence of Jing Nan's change, he appeased the literati by advocating cultural education and revitalizing academics. Compiling group books is the embodiment of this policy.

Compiling a batch of books can put a large number of intellectuals under the direct control of the central government and bury themselves in simple compilation, which can make them silent and have no time to ask more questions about political affairs. At the same time, it can reduce people's attention to the battle of Jingnan. Therefore, shortly after Ming Chengzu ascended the throne, he revised the Yongle Grand Ceremony.