Chapter 32 "Yongle Dadian" and International Friendship

"Yongle Dadian" and International Friendship The "Yongle Dadian" currently in our country, according to the figures disclosed recently for photocopying, includes There are seven hundred and fourteen volumes including the original and copies.According to the "Yongle Dadian" originally included in each volume The number of volumes varies from one volume to three volumes, and the most common one is two volumes per volume, so from seven hundred and fourteen volumes According to the figures, there are at least three hundred volumes in the collection.This is compared to the original total of eleven thousand and ninety-five

Of course, there are still many missing volumes, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty, after the Gengzi Rebellion, the Department of Education released the remaining "Yongle" When "The Great Canon" was handed over to the Beijing Normal University Library (the predecessor of today's Beijing Library), only sixty volumes were available. It has actually been five times this, which is really a gratifying phenomenon.Of course, many of them are from the same collections at home and abroad. photographic reproductions exchanged by those who had In addition, there are fraternal countries who have generously returned dozens of volumes. This is the harvest of great international friendship.

This has allowed the number of volumes of "Yongle Dadian" in our country to be increased to more than 700 volumes. The first to send back the "Yongle Dadian" to us was the Soviet Union.Books of the Department of Oriental Philology of Leningrad University In March 1951, the museum transported eleven volumes of the "Yongle Dadian" in the collection of the museum to the Chinese University of Suzhou. The embassy sent it back to us.Then, in 1954, the Lenin Library would acquire the original collection from Manchukuo, Japan. The fifty-two volumes of the Iron Library were also sent back to us.In this year, the delegation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences visited Suzhou

After leaving Sujing, the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union gave the regiment a copy of "Yongle Canon" as a gift. A total of sixty-four volumes were sent back this time. Then, in December 1955, a delegation from the German Democratic Republic visited China. Chancellor Grottewoll brought us many precious gifts from the German people, among which there are three volumes of the original "Yongle Canon" in the library of Leipzig University, Germany.At that time, the welcome party that Grotewo had held in Beijing The emperor said: "During the period of Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty in 1407 A.D., he once completed the greatest novel in the world.

One of the encyclopedias.Fragments of this Chinese Encyclopedia--In June 1900, Beijing Han The forest yard was burned down in the fire, only part of it was rescued, and it was also scattered, and three of them fell to me. Leipzig University Library in China.After the Soviet Union returns to China the part it has acquired, please allow May we return the three copies we have obtained to you..." (see "Relics Reference Materials" 19 The first issue of 2056). In recognition of this great international friendship, the Beijing Library once held a There was an exhibition of "Yongle Canon", and the eleven volumes sent back by the Soviet Union at that time were held for public exhibition.meeting

In addition to the dozens of volumes in the museum's own collection, there are also books of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Press on display. Of the twenty-one volumes donated, one volume was donated by Zhou Shutao himself.This precious cultural heritage of our country, It can be said that this is the first time that we have the opportunity to get to know everyone together.