China ancient encyclopedia refers to which book?

China Ancient Encyclopedia refers to Yongle Grand Ceremony.

Encyclopedia Britannica called China's Ming Dynasty book Yongle Dadian "the largest encyclopedia in world history". The contents of Yongle Dadian include classics, history, books and collections, involving astronomical geography, Yin and Yang medicine, divination, interpretation of Tibetan Taoist scriptures, drama, crafts and agriculture, covering thousands of years of intellectual wealth of the Chinese nation.

In modern times, due to the loss of Yongle Dadian, there were only 400 volumes left, but it still achieved good results. Since its birth, the National Library of China has assumed the responsibility of a national library, preserving and collecting precious documents such as Yongle Dadian.

There are about 400 volumes of Yongle Dadian, which are scattered in 30 units in 8 countries and regions. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, it has been copied and copied by bibliophiles. Bibliographers and libraries, such as Fu Zengxiang and Jia Yetang, who have collected the Yongle Dadian, have imitated and copied it.

Historical influence

The greatest contribution of Yongle Dadian lies in the preservation of a large number of literature materials of various disciplines before the early Ming Dynasty in China. In this regard, some scholars in Qing Dynasty made some achievements in compiling Yongle Dadian.

During the Qianlong period, when the Siku Quanshu Library was opened, Anhui scholar Zhu Yun invited him to "proofread Yongle Dadian and select rare books from it", which was approved by Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty. In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (A.D. 1773), Collation of the Collection of Yongle Dadian by Siku Quanshu Library was established with the participation of *.

In the forty-six years of Qianlong (A.D. 178 1), * * compiled books: 66 kinds of classics, 4 1 species, divided into 103 species and set of 175 species, with a total of 385 species and 4946 volumes.

Among them, the important documents are Du Yu's annotation on the Spring and Autumn Annals in the Western Jin Dynasty, Yuan He's surname compilation in the Tang Dynasty, Xue's History of the Old Five Dynasties in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Li Xinchuan's chronicle since the establishment of Yan State in the Southern Song Dynasty. The medical codes, prescriptions and filial piety of typhoid fever in Song Dynasty are long-lost secret books, which have been preserved because of Yongle Dadian.