What kind of book is Yongle Dadian in Ming Dynasty?

The value and significance of Yongle ceremony;

1, a large number of ancient books are preserved, and the cited materials are directly taken from the full text, so it is not easy to copy the full text or the whole book. Therefore, most books before the Yuan Dynasty were preserved.

2. There are no other examples in the history of book editing. It not only collected and preserved many ancient scientific and technological books, but also broke the shackles of traditional Confucian concepts and collected a large number of novels, operas and zaju works in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

Yongle Dadian is a collection of ancient China classics compiled by Yao and others at the behest of Ming Taizu during Yongle period of Ming Dynasty. It was originally named "literary masterpiece", and later Ming Chengzu personally wrote the preface and named it "Yongle Grand Ceremony". The book has 22,877 volumes (60 volumes in the catalogue, 22,937 volumes in * * *), 1 1095 volumes, with about 370 million words, bringing together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books.

In the first year of Yongle (1403), Judy made up her mind to write a masterpiece of national prestige. The aim is to "compile all the hundreds of books on classics and history since the book was made, as for astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medical divination, Buddhism and Taoism, and the number of skills."

The contents of Yongle Dadian include classics, history, poetry, book collection, astronomy and geography, Yin and Yang medicine, divination, interpretation of Tibetan scriptures, drama, science and technology, agriculture and so on, covering thousands of years of intellectual wealth of the Chinese nation. Encyclopedia Britannica called China's Ming Dynasty book Yongle Dadian "the largest encyclopedia in world history".