When was Yongle Dadian written?

Yongle Dadian was written in the sixth year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1408). It is a book edited by Yao and Ming Taizu, and it is a collection of ancient China classics. It was originally named "literary masterpiece", and later Ming Chengzu personally wrote the preface and named it "Yongle Grand Ceremony".

A total of 22,877 volumes (60 volumes in the catalogue, 22,937 volumes in * * *), 1 1095 volumes, about 370 million words, bringing together 78,000 ancient and modern books. Whether there is a permanent tomb in the original Yongle Dadian has not yet been determined, but the replicas of the Dadian have been destroyed, most of which were destroyed by fire and war.

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The main contents of 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 the world history" and became an important symbol of China culture.

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