What are the main differences between Yongle Dadian and Sikuquanshu? Is it possible to find the Yongle ceremony?

There is only one original book of Yongle Dadian, which was revised during Yongle period. Nowadays, all the existing manuscripts are from Jiajing period, and the whereabouts of the original books have always been a mystery. The difference between Yongle Dadian and Sikuquanshu;

1, different backgrounds:

Yongle Dadian is a superb classic compiled by Yao and Yao under the direction of the emperor during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and it is an ancient classic collection of China. The full name of Sikuquanshu is Qin Ding Sikuquanshu, which is a large-scale series compiled during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. Under the auspices of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, it was compiled by more than 360 senior officials and scholars, including Ji Yun, and copied by more than 3,800 people. It took 13 years to compile.

2. Different scales:

Yongle Dadian is the first encyclopedic literature collection in China, with a total of 22,877 volumes (60 volumes in the catalogue), 1 1095 volumes, about 370 million words, and 78,000 ancient and modern books. Sikuquanshu is divided into four parts: classics, history, zi and Ji, named Sikuquan. According to Wen Jin Ge Ji, * * contains 3,462 kinds of books, including 79,338 volumes, more than 36,000 volumes and about 800 million words. The scale is 3.5 times that of Yongle Grand Ceremony.

3. The existing integrity is different:

After 2008, most of the contents of Sikuquanshu have been restored. At present, there are only three and a half sets of Sikuquanshu, and its Chinese library was originally hidden in the Forbidden City in Beijing, and then transferred to Taiwan Province Province through Shanghai-Nanjing, and now it is hidden in the National Palace Museum in Taipei (which is also a relatively well-preserved set).

Wen sui ge Ben 1922 was almost sold to the Japanese, and is now in the library of Gansu province. The Jinwen Museum was handed over to the National Library of China by the government of China on 1950, which is the only preserved version of the original book. Wen Lan Pavilion is in Zhejiang Library.

Whether there is a Changling in the original Yongle Dadian has not yet been determined, but the copy of the Dadian was destroyed, most of it was destroyed by war, and a considerable part was stolen by later generations in the name of writing books. Today, there are only over 800 volumes, which are scattered all over the world.

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