How long did it take to compile the Siku Quanshu?

The title of the series. Compiled during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Begun in 1772 and compiled over a period of ten years.

It is also the largest book series in ancient China, which is divided into four parts: classics, history, children, and collections, hence the name Siku. According to the Wenjin Pavilion Collection, the book contains a total of 3,503 (3,503) ancient books, 79,337 (79,337) volumes, and more than 36,000 bound volumes. A wealth of documentation has been preserved.

The name "Four Libraries" originated from the early Tang Dynasty, and the official collection of books in the early Tang Dynasty was divided into four libraries of the subset of classics and histories, known as the "Four Library Books", or "the Book of the Four Libraries". The subset quadrant of classics and histories is the main method of classifying ancient books, which basically includes all ancient books, so it is called "complete books". In the early years of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the scholar Zhou Shuinian put forward the "Confucian Tibetan Theory", advocating that Confucian works should be gathered together for borrowing.

This theory has been widely responded to by the society, which is the social basis for the compilation of the "Siku Quanshu". The "Summary of the Siku Quanshu" is another important bibliography work.

Four libraries of the whole book. It is divided into 44 categories. The details are as follows:

The Department of Classics includes 10 categories, including Yi class, book class, poetry class, ritual class, Spring and Autumn class, filial piety class, five classics general meaning class, four books class, music class, and primary school class, among which the ritual class is divided into weekly rites, rituals, rites, and three rites.

There are 6 genera of general righteousness, general rites, and miscellaneous rites, and 3 genera of exegesis, character books, and rhyme books in the primary school category; The Department of History includes 15 categories, including official history, chronicles, chronicles, miscellaneous histories, other histories, edicts, biographies, historical notes, chronicles, seasonals, geography, officials, political documents, directories, and historical reviews, among which the edict recitals are divided into 2 genera of edicts and recitals, and the biography is divided into 5 genera: sages, celebrities, general records, miscellaneous records, and other records, and geography is divided into 10 genera, including palaces, general records, metropolitan counties, rivers and canals, border defense, mountains and rivers, historic sites, miscellaneous records, travelogues, and foreign records. There are 2 genera of official proverbs, and the political book category is divided into 6 genera of general system, ceremony, state plan, military and political affairs, laws and regulations, and examination work, and the catalog category is divided into 2 genera of scriptures and gold and stone; The sub-divisions include Confucianism.

Class, soldier, lawyer, farmer, doctor, astronomical algorithm, mathematics, art, spectrum, miscellaneous, book, **, Buddha, Taoism.

There are 14 categories such as classes, among which the astronomical algorithm class is divided into 2 genera of push step and book arithmetic, and the arithmetic class is divided into mathematics, occupancy, phase house and tomb, divination, life book and book of life, and the five elements of yin and yang.

7 genera of miscellaneous technology, art is divided into 4 genera of calligraphy and painting, piano scores, seal carving, and acrobatics, and 3 genera of musical records: utensils, recipes, plants, trees, birds, beasts, insects, and fish, and miscellaneous families, and miscellaneous studies, miscellaneous examinations, miscellaneous sayings, miscellaneous products, miscellaneous compilations, and miscellaneous compilations 6 genera, and ** family categories are divided into miscellaneous things, strange news, and trivial words 3 genera; The collection department includes five categories, including Chu Ci, special collection, general collection, poetry commentary, and lyrics and songs, among which the lyrics and songs are divided into five genera: word collection, word selection, word rhyme, and north and south songs. Except for the chapter back**.

In addition to theatrical works, the above categories basically include all kinds of books that are circulated in society. As far as authors are concerned, the writings of various personalities including women, monks, Taoists, eunuchs, soldiers, emperors, foreigners, etc.

It was compiled in 286 A.D., because the characters on the Siku Quanshu were in front of the official script, and the back became regular script.

It was compiled in the Tang Dynasty, because the Siku Quanshu was a very huge project, starting from Li Shimin and ending with Li Longji.

In 1782 A.D., China's largest series of books "Siku Quanshu" came out, this brilliant masterpiece basically includes from the pre-Qin to the Qing Dynasty Qianlong pre-text, Shi Suiqiao, Zhehe Hui, science, agriculture Hu Pameng, medicine and other disciplines of important ancient books, is the culmination of China's traditional culture.

It seems that in the Tang Dynasty, it was because Li Shimin ascended the throne that Li asked Li to travel around the world alone, and then wrote this book. In the historical records, it was recorded in the old shed.