Encyclop dia Britannica and Yongle Canon . Which culture do you think is of higher value?

Of course, it is the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the value of the monolithic is not as good as the Yongle Dictionary - it has never been disseminated. The fatal death of the Yongle Canon is that this book is only a book for the royal family to read, and only one has survived for a long time (only two copies have been completed in a very short period of time after the completion of the manuscript, and the original copies were soon buried), and no matter how well a book is written, if no one can see it, it is no different from garbage.

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 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 Encyclopedia Britannica in Britain.

The Yongle Canon consists of 22,877 volumes and 60 table of contents, divided into 10,095 volumes, with a total of about 370 million words. The scale of the Yongle Canon far exceeds all the books compiled by the previous generations, and even the largest book compiled in the Qing Dynasty, the Collection of Ancient and Modern Books, is only 10,000 volumes and 160 million words, less than half of the Yongle Canon. The scale of the Yongle Canon is beyond the reach of Western contemporaries.

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 or six times, that is, the large series of books compiled in the Qing Dynasty, "Siku Quanshu", contains only more than 3,000 kinds of books.

But. The Encyclopædia Britannica is more clearly categorized.

Yes. Life Sciences.

Paleontology, Biology and Biology, Algae, Plants, Invertebrates, Mammals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles and Amphibians, Anatomy, Anatomy and Physiology, Medicine, Environment, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry, Food, Biographies.

Natural science. Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Minerals and Fuels, Metrics, Biographies.

Social science. Anthropology, Archaeology, Society, Economics, Politics, Military, Education, Law, Psychology, Organization, Biographies.

Engineering technology. Communications, Transportation, Electronics and Computers, Space Technology, Military Technology, Engineering, Machinery and Tools, Biographies.

History. Ancient History, American History, European History, Asian History, Oceania History, African History, History of China and Taiwan, Historiography and Historical Events, Biography of People.

Geography. Geographical Regions, Countries, Administrative Regions and Others, Cities and Towns, China and Taiwan, Topography, Mountains, Water Systems and Lakes, Oceans, Islands, Parks and Protected Areas, Adventures, Biographies.

Philosophy and Religion.

Philosophical concepts and schools, religions, the Bible, metaphysics, scriptures, biographies.

Humanities and Arts. Architecture, Painting & Calligraphy, Sculpture, Photography, Crafts, Art Genres, Language, Literature & Creation, Fables & Myths, **, Dance, Theatre, Mass Communication, Institutional Culture, Biographies.

Sports & Recreation.

Sports, games, leisure and entertainment, folklore and festivals, biographies.