What kind of book is Yongle Dadian?

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.

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 and 22,937 volumes in * * *), 1 1095. [ 1]? About 370 million words, bringing together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books.

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Historical influence:

Most of the books in Yongle Dadian are works of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. By the time Wen Yuan Ge Bibliography was edited in the Ming Dynasty, there were three or four books out of ten. In the Qing dynasty, only 11 Liang was still in circulation.

Besides the more formal Confucian classics, there are hundreds of historical biographies and anthologies of past dynasties. The ancient records in Yongle Dadian also include a large number of local scenery, novels and operas, medical technology, Taoist and Buddhist classics. Therefore, scholars of all ages took Yongle Dadian as the source of compilation, and they crawled around in it to sort out books and records scattered in various volumes, which made many lost.