Chapter 30 About "Yongle Dadian"

About "Yongle Dadian" It was reported that Zhonghua Book Company was going to photocopy "Yongle Dadian".This long-lost class book, Xu Many people have only heard its name, and have never seen what this book is like.Although it is only residual There are more than 700 volumes in existence, but once it is photocopied, at least ordinary people can appreciate this ancient and modern genre. The original appearance of the book; at the same time, the number of "more than seven hundred volumes" is the same as the original 20,000 volumes of "Yongle Dadian".

Compared with the number of remaining volumes, although it only accounts for 34% of the total, if it is an ordinary book, a volume of 70% A hundred volumes of work is already a great tome, so the various materials contained in it, Since many of the original books on which it was based have long been lost, the A sentence or a subsection in the book, in today's view, is still of great academic value. The so-called "Yongle Dadian", its content is a dictionary, like the current encyclopedia.This Books of the same nature were called "classic books" in ancient my country, which is different from "series books", because "series books" refer to the

Many whole books are compiled and printed as a set, and "class books" are based on different projects (such as astronomy, geography, etc.) science, fine arts, etc.), the material on this project from all the various writings was gathered together and compiled Compiled, and at the same time indicate what book the source of these materials is.The existing "Siku Quanshu" is a collection of Books, "Ancient and Modern Books Integration" is "class books". "Yongle Dadian" is the same as the latter. "Yongle Dadian" was compiled by Confucian officials ordered by Ming Chengzu in the first year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty. After five years

Compiled in time, it was originally named "Document Dacheng", but later because it was compiled during the Shuile period, it was changed to It is called "Yongle Dadian".The book has a total of 22,937 volumes, divided into eleven thousand and nine volumes. Fifteen volumes.Like the "Siku Quanshu" compiled by Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, this book was not engraved. Instead, they were all transcribed manually, so there are only two copies in total, one original and one copy.responsible for collecting materials The Confucian officials, as well as the students of Guoxue and county studies who were engaged in copying, mobilized a total of 3,000 relatives.

years to complete.Its content classification method is very special, it is based on the "poetry rhyme" of poetry, Yiping Go up and enter in order, according to each word of the rhyme, record the similar materials that are drawn in this word below.For example, Juan 2271 is based on the lake character of "six patterns" in the rhyme of poetry, so all The names of lakes all over our country, as well as things about lakes, are all gathered under this word, and marked with this Where are these lakes and what books have they been seen in?This material classification method, due to our current understanding of "poetry

"Rhyme" is not familiar, of course it is a bit difficult to check, but at that time all scholars were familiar with "Shi Yun", because This is to check the required materials according to the rhyme, just like we check "Ci Yuan" and "Ci Hai" now, It is very convenient. The original copy of "Yongle Dadian" had already been burned in a fire in a certain year in the late Ming Dynasty, and there was not a single copy left.now The remaining copy is a copy, which was reprinted during the Jiajing period.