What is Yongle Grand Ceremony?

The Grand Ceremony of Yongle is a book compiled by Yao and others in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, and it is a masterpiece determined by Ming Taizu to show its national prestige and benefit all generations. 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 book has 22,877 volumes (60 volumes in the catalogue, 22,937 volumes in * * *), 1 1095 volumes, about 370 million words, and 7,000 ancient and modern books are collected. Judy, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, personally prefaced and named 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. Encyclopedia Britannica called China's Ming Dynasty book Yongle Dadian "the largest encyclopedia in world history". It has become an important symbol of China culture.