What is an encyclopedia and what does an encyclopedia in ancient China refer to?

Books that cover all kinds of knowledge.

Look for an encyclopedia and you'll find out.

It's a book with a lot of knowledge.

The ancient Chinese encyclopedia refers to the Yongle Canon.

Yongle Dictionary is a collection of ancient Chinese classics compiled by Ming Chengzu Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. The original name was "Literature Dacheng", and later Ming Chengzu personally wrote the preface and gave it the name "Yongle Canon". The book has 22,877 volumes (60 volumes of catalog, a total of 22,937 volumes), 11,095 volumes, about 100 million words, and brings together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books.

The original of the Yongle Canon has not yet been determined whether there is Yongling, but the copy of the canon has been tragically destroyed, most of them were destroyed by fire and war, and a considerable part of them were stolen by later generations in the name of repairing books, and now only more than 800 volumes are scattered around the world.

The contents of the Yongle Canon include scriptures, history, sub-collections, astronomy and geography, yin and yang medicine, divination, interpretation of Tibetan Taoist scriptures, drama, crafts, and agronomy, covering the intellectual wealth of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. The Encyclopædia Britannica, in its "Encyclopedia" entry, called the Yongle Dadian, a Chinese Ming dynasty book, "the largest encyclopedia the world has ever seen." It has become an important symbol of Chinese culture.

In modern times, due to the loss of the Yongle Canon, only 400 copies can be used, but it still achieves good results. Since its birth, the National Library of China has assumed the responsibility of the national library, preserving and collecting precious documents such as the Yongle Canon. At the beginning of the preparation for the construction of the Beijing Normal Library, the Faculty of Economics proposed to transfer the remaining Yongle Dadian of the Hanlin Academy to the Beijing Normal Library.

The ancient Chinese encyclopedia refers to the Yongle Canon.

Because the content of the "Yongle Grand Canon" includes scriptures, history, sub-collections, astronomy and geography, yin and yang medicine, divination, interpretation of Tibetan Taoist scriptures, drama, crafts, and agronomy, covering the intellectual wealth of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. The Encyclopædia Britannica, in its "Encyclopedia" entry, called the Yongle Dadian, a Chinese Ming dynasty book, "the largest encyclopedia the world has ever seen." It has become an important symbol of Chinese culture.

Historical influences. Due to the large volume and the large number of people who participated in the compilation and repair, the Yongle Canon is inconsistent, and it is inevitable that there will be mistakes in the inconsistencies, but this does not affect its great value. The Yongle Canon is one of China's most famous ancient classics and by far the world's largest encyclopedia.

Its scale far exceeds all the books compiled by previous generations, and it is known as the Book of Ten Thousand Books, leaving many rich stories and difficult mysteries for future generations. Compiled in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, it preserves Chinese history and geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion and encyclopedic documents before the 14th century. There are 22,877 volumes, divided into 11,095 volumes, with a total of about 370 million words.

It preserves Chinese history and geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion and other encyclopedic documents before the 14th century, which is more than 300 years earlier than the encyclopedia compiled by Diderot in France and the Encyclopædia Britannica in Britain, and can be called a treasure of world cultural heritage. According to rough statistics, the ancient classics selected and preserved in the "Yongle Canon" are:

There are as many as seven or eight thousand kinds, and the number is that of the previous generation of books such as "Art and Literature Gathering", "Taiping Yulan", and "Shufu Yuan Turtle".

Five, six times.

The main content of the Encyclopedia:A reference book that records all categories of human knowledge or a certain category of knowledge. The Encyclopedia surpasses other types of reference books in size and content.

The main function of the Encyclopedia is to provide people with the necessary knowledge and factual information, and its completeness lies in the fact that it contains the elements of various reference books and includes all aspects of knowledge. It is known as a "university without walls".

Encyclopedia Introduction:

The Encyclopedia is a collection of knowledge, an overview of all categories of knowledge. Whether or not there is an excellent and comprehensive "encyclopedia" has become one of the indicators to measure the level of scientific and cultural development of a country. It is arranged in the form of a dictionary, which collects special terms and terms for each subject, lists the entries, explains them in detail, and introduces the cultural and scientific knowledge in a relatively complete way.

There are comprehensive encyclopedias that are all-encompassing, and there are also encyclopedias that are specialized.

An encyclopedia is a reference book that provides an overview of all categories of human knowledge or a certain category of knowledgeThe encyclopedia includes the special terms and terms of each subject, lists the entries, explains them in detail, and introduces the cultural and scientific knowledge in a relatively complete way.

Encyclopedias include all-encompassing comprehensive encyclopedias, as well as specialized encyclopedias, such as medical encyclopedias, engineering and technology encyclopedias, etc., which help people acquire knowledge and improve themselves.

The history of the compilation of encyclopedias in our country

Unlike modern Western encyclopedias, which are basically a selection of important documents, they are mainly compiled for the reference of scholars, and some also have some dictionalist elements.

China's first famous book is the "Emperor Lan" compiled by Emperor Wen of Wei in 220 AD, which is now lost, and the famous books compiled later include "Weaving Pearls" edited by Du Gongzhan, 100 volumes of "Art and Literature Gathering" compiled by Ouyang Xun, "Beitang Book Banknotes" compiled by Yu Shinan, and "Beginner's Notes" edited by Xu Jian and others.

In the Song Dynasty, Li Fang was ordered by Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty to organize the compilation and revision of the Taiping Yulan, which was later rebuilt and used for movable type printing. The Shufu Yuangui (1013) focuses on history and biographical content, and is almost as long as the Taiping Yulan.

The ancient Chinese encyclopedia refers to the Yongle Canon.

Xie Jin of the Ming Dynasty was responsible for compiling in Nanjing, in the heyday, there were nearly 10,000 prisoners from home and abroad, in the area of Chengxian Street of Southeast University today, carefully created the largest encyclopedia of ancient China with about 100 million words, the whole book is 22,877 volumes, and there are 60 volumes of examples and catalogs, which were bound into 11,095 volumes at that time, and the "Yongle Canon" was compiled into 8,000 kinds of ancient books from the pre-Qin to the Ming Dynasty, it is a very precious historical document in China's ancient books, and it is also the world's largest and earliest encyclopedia.

Modern exodus. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the British and French troops invaded and occupied Beijing, and the Hanlin Academy was looted, and a large number of "Great Canons" were lost.

In the first year of Guangxu (1875), when the building of the Hanlin Academy was renovated, less than 5,000 copies of the "Great Canon" were inventoried, and the reason why the "Yongle Grand Canon" was rapidly lost was mainly due to the staff guarding and stealing it, and it is said that Wen Tingshi alone stole more than 100 copies of the "Yongle Grand Canon".

In June of the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894), only 800 volumes were left when Weng Tong entered the Hanlin Academy, and now there are about 400 volumes, 810 volumes, less than 4% of the original book.

In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the Hanlin Academy was burned down by the boxers of the Boxers, and more than 300 copies of the Yongle Dictionary were damaged.

On June 11, 1901, the British Embassy returned 330 volumes of the Dictionary. Soon it was divided among the guards. In 1912, when the "Great Canon" collected by the Hanlin Academy was transferred to the Jingshi Library, only 64 volumes remained.

An encyclopedia is a kind of large-scale reference book, which is a reference book that summarizes all categories of human knowledge or a certain category of knowledge.

The encyclopedia collects the special terms and terms of each subject, lists the entries, explains them in detail, and introduces the cultural and scientific knowledge in a relatively complete way. There are all-encompassing comprehensive encyclopedias, as well as specialized encyclopedias, such as medical encyclopedias, engineering and technology encyclopedias, etc., which help people acquire knowledge and improve themselves.