China s first encyclopedia, author?

China's earliest craft encyclopedia "Heavenly Creations" - Song Yingxing.

China's earliest agricultural encyclopedia "Qi Min Yaoshu" - Jia Sixian.

"Encyclopedia" usually refers to a large set of books. The word was first used in the West from the Greek (0 3 0 9) (Latin alphabet: enkyklios) and 0 7 (paideia).

"enkyklios" means "circular, cyclical, ordinary", while "paideia" means "education". It means "general education, literally the arts and sciences that a person who wants to get a generalist education should learn". It was falsely translated as the Neo-Latin word "encyclopaedia" in the process of transcription, and then into English, first in 1531.

In Neo-Latin, the word was chosen as the title of a reference work covering the various subjects. It was first seen in England in 1644.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the largest encyclopedia in the world is the Yongle Canon.

The only real encyclopedia is the now published Encyclopedia of China.

Only "Heavenly Creation" - Song Yingxing is a native of Fengxin County, Jiangxi!

The first encyclopedia was the Yongle Canon. 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 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 Encyclopædia Britannica, in its "Encyclopedia" entry, calls 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.

The Earliest Encyclopedia:

The Yongle Canon is an encyclopedic classic revised during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. It covers politics, literature, medicine, myths and legends, market **, craft production, **production and all the aspects that can be imagined at that time, and even in the later collection of cultural relics, there is even a book dedicated to it"doors"A "Yongle Canon", which not only draws all styles of doors in China from ancient times to the Yongle period, but also writes nineteen calligraphers"doors"The word is included in it.

It's got it all. As a result, the book is divided into more than 22,000 volumes, with a table of contents alone of 60 volumes. It took more than 2,000 people five years to revise and complete the Yongle Canon, and there were seven or eight thousand books of all sizes involved.

Moreover, the Yongle Dictionary is not the kind of small typesetting in the ancient Chinese tradition, but each volume is a large typesetting with a length of 55 centimeters and a width of 30 centimeters.

The first encyclopedia was the Yongle Canon.

Yongle Canon, December 14, 1408: China's earliest and largest encyclopedia, the Yongle Canon, took five years to compile.

The Yongle Canon is the largest book series in Chinese history, compiled during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. The book has 22,877 volumes, 60 volumes of table of contents, 11,095 volumes, and about 100 million words. The Yongle Canon contains nearly 8,000 kinds of classics and documents on Chinese history and geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion before the 14th century, and can be called a world-class encyclopedia.

Historical value

Yongle Canon is extremely rich in historical materials about the Song and Yuan Dynasties, when the Qing Dynasty Qianlong opened the Siku Quanshuguan, Anhui Xuezheng Zhu Yun asked "the school "Yongle Canon", choose the book that is not common among the people, and compile it", which was approved by the Qianlong Emperor, and specially set up a "Proofreading "Yongle Canon" Loose Book Office", the staff was 30 people at the beginning, and then 9 people were added, and the famous scholars Dai Zhen, Shao Jinhan, Zhou Yongnian, etc. participated in this work.

By the forty-sixth year of Qianlong (1781), a total of 66 kinds of books were published: 66 kinds of classics, 41 kinds of history, 103 kinds of sub-departments, and 175 kinds of collections, totaling 385 kinds and 4946 volumes. 4620 to 14629 contains the book "Officials and Regulations", which is a compilation of archives about the Song Dynasty officials' narrative and performance appraisal system, which was recorded to the Southern Song Dynasty and can fill the gap in the section of the "Song Hui Yao" until the Ningzong Dynasty.

The first Chinese encyclopedia was the Yongle Canon.

The Yongle Canon was compiled in the Yongle period, successively presided over by the cabinet chief assistant Xie Jin and the crown prince and young master Yao Guangxiao, which took five years (1403 and 1407) to complete, is the most famous ancient classic in China and the world's largest encyclopedia so far.

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. 1,110 volumes), divided into 11,095 volumes, with a total of about 370 million words.

The first encyclopedia was the Yongle Canon. The Yongle Encyclopedia was built during the Ming Dynasty in China, and as an encyclopedia, it was more than 300 years earlier than the British Encyclopedia Britannica. The Yongle Canon preserves Chinese history and geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion and encyclopedic documents before the 14th century, and the original Yongle Canon has been lost in the Ming Dynasty due to wars and fires, and now there are only 400 copies in circulation.

Introduction 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.

In the first year of Yongle (1403), Zhu Di was determined to build a masterpiece to demonstrate the prestige of the country and benefit all generations. The purpose is "to compile the books of a hundred schools of thought since the book deed, as for astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medical divination, monks, and skills, it will be compiled into one book".

Initially, Zhu Di ordered Xie Jin to preside over the compilation (scale of 147 people), and a year later completed the "Literature Dacheng", but Zhu Di was very dissatisfied after reading it personally, and appointed Yao Guangxiao as the supervisor, and at the same time the compilation team expanded to 2196 people (a total of more than 3000 people), and finalized it in the fifth year of Yongle (1407), Zhu Di personally wrote the preface and gave the name "Yongle Canon". The whole book was copied in the sixth year of Yongle (1408).

The first encyclopedia was the Yongle Canon. The Yongle Canon is China's first encyclopedic collection of documents, with a total of 22,877 volumes, 11,095 volumes, and about 100 million words, which is a glorious achievement of ancient Chinese science and culture.

Yongle Dadian La Blind Sparrow is a collection of ancient Chinese classics compiled by Emperor Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.

The contents of the Yongle Canon include scriptures, history, sub-collections, collections, astronomy and geography, yin and yang medicine, early divination of the wheel, interpretation of Tibetan Taoist scriptures, drama, crafts, agriculture, etc., covering the intellectual wealth of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.

Yongle Canon is the most extensive in the history of our country, the largest volume of a class of books, which brings together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books, from the pre-Qin to the early Ming Dynasty, is the largest encyclopedia in the world before the 15th century.