Heavenly Creations and Yongle Canon are all encyclopedias, where did the saying encyclopedia c

The saying "encyclopedia" came from the West, was there an encyclopedia in ancient China? What can be called an ancient Chinese encyclopedia is a "class book". Although the name "class book" appeared in the Song Dynasty, class books have been around for a long time.

Ancient Chinese classics are so vast that no matter how good a person's energy is, it is impossible to read them all.

Therefore, in order to grasp the content of the group books more conveniently, Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, ordered people to "compile a collection of scriptures and follow the same kind", that is, to transcribe materials from existing classics in different categories and compile them into the book "Huanglan". But unfortunately, this book was lost around the end of the Sui Dynasty. It is generally believed that this is the first book of its kind in Chinese history.

However, the late famous scholar Mr. Zhang Shunhui believes that the origin of such books can be traced back to "Erya".

This is a Confucian classic compiled by beginners in the Han Dynasty, which divides the annotations on the classics into exegesis, famous objects, etc., and classifies and compiles them together into nineteen articles. Although the book is not large, it is an important reference book for later generations to study ancient documents.

By the Tang Dynasty, the compilation of similar books was even more prosperous. Preserved to this day, there is Wei Zheng's "Qun Shu Zhi Yao".

Fifty volumes, one hundred and sixty volumes of Yu Shinan's "Beitang Book Banknotes", and Ouyang Xun's "Art and Literature Gathering".

One hundred volumes, Xu Jian's "Beginner's Notes".

Thirty volumes. "Art and Literature Gathering" is the most famous and the most valuable.

Although the national strength of the Song Dynasty was not as strong as that of the Tang Dynasty, the cultural undertakings developed by leaps and bounds, and the scale of similar books became larger and larger, such as the Taiping Yulan of the Taizong Dynasty of the Northern Song Dynasty

and Zhenzong Dynasty to repair the "Book of Yuan Turtle".

All amounted to a thousand volumes. The "Jade Sea" edited by Wang Yinglin of the Southern Song Dynasty with his own strength also has 200 volumes. Compared with the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Tang and Song dynasties are insignificant in scale.

Ming Chengzu Zhu Di ordered Xie Jin to preside over the compilation of the "Yongle Canon".

22,937 volumes; The "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books" compiled during the Kangxi and Yongzheng periods of the Qing Dynasty

There are also 10,000 volumes. Let's briefly introduce these two books to see one of the ancient books. The Yongle Canon is divided into words according to rhyme, and the contents of various documents related to this word are compiled in turn according to the single word, and seven or eight thousand kinds of books of all kinds are widely collected.

It began in the first year of Yongle (1403) and was completed in six years. Jiajing and Longqing, according to the original copy of Yongle Nian, copy a copy. The original copy of the "Yongle Canon" was destroyed at the time of the death of the Ming Dynasty; In the Qing Dynasty, many copies of it were also scattered.

In the tenth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1860), the British and French forces invaded Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace, and most of the "Yongle Ceremony" was burned; Those that were not burned were plundered, and some were lost overseas.

The meaning of the encyclopedia is very complete, every item is there, and everything is complete, so it is an encyclopedia.

"Encyclopedia" contains all kinds of books, encyclopedia, is a kind of title.

It is a book that records the world, and the greatest knowledge content is the knowledge of all aspects.

It is to write everything into the book, 100 is to describe more, and Ke is to describe Kodo.

I think it's just a more comprehensive way for the people to say it.

Because there is everything in this book, and everything you want to know is in it.

In fact, it is to write everything into the book, Bai is to describe the variety, and the branch is to describe the Kodo.

In fact, the knowledge recorded in it is more comprehensive, what do you know?

It contains a lot of knowledge, and all aspects are very complete, so it is called an encyclopedia.

The Yongle Canon was written by Xie Jin, a famous genius during the Ming Dynasty.

This is also the first encyclopedia in Chinese history.

I believe everyone should have heard of the book "Yongle Canon", "Yongle Canon" is a very classic work, but people don't know much about "Yongle Canon". The Yongle Canon was created during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, when the reigning emperor was Zhu Di.

And Xie Jin, the author of "Yongle Canon", was also known as the first genius of the Ming Dynasty at that time. <>

The Yongle Canon is actually not Xie Jin's original, because it is an informational book, so there are many other books in it. Moreover, there are many explanations and meanings of words in it, and it is also a kind of dictionary used by ancient people when searching for literature, so having a big point is equivalent to an encyclopedia in ancient times. When Xie Jin was compiling this book, he also hoped that there would be a variety of knowledge in this book, so that people could understand a lot of classics when they read this book.

When the book was just compiled, it was called "The Great Completion of Literature".

But the Yongle Emperor.

Zhu Di felt very dissatisfied after reading it, he felt that there were too few clicks in this book, and it could not be called an encyclopedia at all. So Zhu Di asked his cronies Yao Guangxiao again.

He Jiejin compiled this book together, starting from the historical materials of the Three Kingdoms period, in fact, Zhu Di mainly wanted to compile a very detailed encyclopedia to highlight the cultural heritage of the Ming Dynasty. <>

This book began to be compiled when Zhu Di first succeeded to the throne, and Zhu Di mainly wanted to use this book to attract cultural people in society, because Zhu Di's throne was not passed on to him by the first emperor, but snatched from his nephew. This kind of behavior seemed very wrong in ancient times, so there were many literati in the society at that time who couldn't stand it, and Zhu Di, who wrote articles satirizing the station, also wanted to establish his position in the hearts of these literati through this "Yongle Canon".

China's first encyclopedia is the Yongle Encyclopedia, which was written by Xie Jin, a famous genius during the Ming Dynasty, and is the first encyclopedia in China.

Xie Jin, who was born in 1369 and died in 14 15, lived a total of 46 years. And he was the three princes of the Ming Dynasty.

It was written by Xie Jin, Wang Jing, Zou Ji, and Yao Guangxiao, and Zhu Di ordered them to write this encyclopedia.

Yes, with the mausoleum. The Yongle Canon is a kind of book, which was compiled in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty and took six years (1403 to 1408) to complete. It preserves the Chinese history and geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion and other encyclopedic hidden documents before the 14th century, which are more than 300 years earlier than the encyclopedia compiled by Diderot in France and the Encyclopedia Britannica in Britain.