Why did Zhou Zhengkuan want to rebuild the Siku Quanshu?

Two hundred and thirty years ago, Emperor Qianlong ordered the whole country to compile the Sikuquanshu. The Qianlong Emperor himself presided over the compilation, with Heshen, Liu Yong and 26 others as the president and vice president, Ji Xiaolan and Dai Zhen as the chief writers, three imperial princes, military ministers, and scholarly scholars as the main staff, and 3,800 calligraphic masters selected from all over the country to write and copy the text, with more than 4,400 people participating in the grand cultural project in the fifteen years before and after the event. The whole book is divided into four parts, namely, Jing, Shi, Zi and Ji, according to the traditional Chinese book classification method. The "Jing" is the Confucian classics, the "Shi" is the history books of the past dynasties, the "Zi" is the hundred schools of thought, and the "Jie" is a variety of poems and dictionaries. The whole book ***36,375 volumes, including 34,661 books, 79,309 volumes, 6,144 letters, 2,380,000 pages, and nearly 800 million words, is the most systematic, comprehensive, and true record of the humanistic history of the Chinese nation before the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The book is only copied in seven parts, hidden in Beijing Palace Wenyuange, Yuanmingyuan Garden Wenyuange, Chengde Summer Resort Wenjinge, Shenyang Imperial Palace Wensuge, Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple Wenzongge, Yangzhou Tianning Temple Wenhuige and Hangzhou Shengin Temple Wenlange. </P>

Regrettably, Zhenjiang's Wenzongge and Yangzhou's Wenhuige destroyed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period of the fire; Wenyuange in the Anglo-French allied forces burned down the Yuanmingyuan turned to ashes; there are three other parts of the military fire in the midst of the upheaval and dispersal; the only remaining copy of the earliest, copy the most precise, the most valuable for the Qianlong Imperial Palace of the Wanyuancang this is also the book of the cabinet separated from the cabinet, a few times around, and now has become Taipei! The National Palace Museum's treasure. Emperor Qianlong built for the "Siku Quanshu" Wen Yuan Ge books to the pavilion empty, leaving only one hundred empty shelves, silently looking forward to the return of national treasures. After the founding of New China, it became a dream in the hearts of countless people to make a perfect copy of the national treasures in loess and return them to the Wen Yuan Ge of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The then director of the National Library Ren Jiyu, masters of national education Ji Xianlin, Qigong and so on have repeatedly moved loess to photocopy the Siku Quanshu, are due to the huge investment, the cycle is long, the process is complex and failed to realize.

History has come to the present day, with the rise of China's economy, China's cultural endeavors have entered an era of unprecedented prosperity and rejuvenation. The sacred mission of recreating the Siku Quanshu has once again touched many insightful people. When Mr. Zhou Zhengguan will re-create the national treasure of the funding plan and production plan submitted, the General Administration of Press and Publication Liu Binjie, Director of two personal instructions, to give strong support; General Administration of Press and Publication, in particular, the project will be included in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" publishing plan; Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences President Chen Kuiyuan, Director of the Central Museum of Culture and History of the National Academy of Sciences of Peking University, Yuan Xingjie, the President of the Palace Museum, Zheng Xinmiao served as the project Adviser; two General Administration of Press and Publication Liu Binjie, Yu Youxian as the director of the project; China's only national thread-bound book publishing organization - thread-bound book Bureau to undertake the entire project operation; the Palace Museum decided to loess photocopies of the "Siku Quanshu" into the collection of the Wen Yuange, which is the first collection of cultural relics replicas of the Palace Museum in the history of the collection; the newly established China National Studies Research Center will also be placed in the anteroom to highlight the great view of traditional Chinese culture to the domestic and international. Chinese traditional culture of the great view.

To present the Siku Quanshu, which has been handed down for thousands of years, is far beyond people's imagination in terms of scale, links, cycle and investment. From the production of rice paper to the completion of the book, all the processes up to more than 380. In addition to a few processes can use modern technology, all the other links need skilled workers to complete by hand. The entire book*** requires nearly 40 million sheets of handmade Xuan paper from Anhui Province, which has the reputation of "a thousand years of paper life", and if these sheets are connected, they can circle the earth nearly three times. Although with the help of a large number of modern scientific and technological equipment, and for the "Siku Quanshu" characteristics of the development of new software, but one million and two hundred thousand sheets of plate still need sixty people two and a half years of full work can be completed. Due to the handmade rice paper paper is too soft, must use the old printing equipment, need to renew the paper by hand one by one. All 1.2 million printing plates and tens of millions of sheets of Xuan paper required seven machines running 24 hours a day for three years. The whole binding process consists of more than one hundred interlocking links, each of which must be operated by hand and monitored manually. Such a completely handmade technique and operation process perfectly reflects the beauty of traditional culture. The cover of each volume is made of natural silk, dyed in four colors: red, green, blue, and gray, corresponding to the four sections of the scriptures, histories, sons, and collections, and taking the meaning of the vitality of spring, the deep blaze of summer, the handsome autumn, and the vastness of winter, which means that the four seasons are revolving, and that there is no end to life, and that nobleness and simplicity are wonderfully blended together, and that the wisdom and profoundness of the traditional Chinese culture are all contained therein. The 36,000 volumes of the book are organized into 6,144 letters and placed in 128 bookcases. The bookcases are handmade from golden teak wood and the bookcases are hand-carved, which took more than one hundred craftsmen three years to complete. It took five years to complete the book, and more than 500 experts, scholars and craftsmen were involved in the project, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The whole project cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Soon, the Beijing Palace Wen Yuan Ge will open the dusty heart, embrace this cohesion of countless people's efforts to return to the treasure.

Recreating the Wen Yuan Ge "Siku Quanshu", celebrating the great times and promoting the cultural spirit of the Chinese nation.