Six ancient encyclopedias of China.

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The Grand Ceremony of Yongle is a China classic "Grand Ceremony" edited by Jie Jin, the chief cabinet book, in the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, formerly known as "Literary Masterpiece". It is an encyclopedic collection of documents in China, with 22,937 volumes (60 volumes in the catalogue), 1 1095 volumes, with about 370 million words, which brings together 7,000 ancient and modern books. Encyclopedia Britannica called China's Ming Dynasty book Yongle Dadian "the largest encyclopedia in world history".

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The Grand Ceremony of Yongle was written in Yongle period and edited by Jie Jin, a great scholar in imperial academy. It took six years (1403- 1408) to complete the compilation. It is the most famous ancient book in China and the largest encyclopedia in the world so far. Its scale is far larger than all the books compiled by previous generations, leaving many rich stories and mysteries for future generations. It was compiled in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, and preserved the historical geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion and encyclopedic documents of China before14th century. * * * There are 22,937 volumes and 60 volumes in the catalogue, divided into 1 1095 volumes, and the whole book is about 370 million words.

The encyclopedias of China's history, geography, literature, art, philosophy and religion before14th century are preserved. Compared with the encyclopedias compiled by Diderot and British encyclopedias, it is more than 300 years earlier and is a treasure of world cultural heritage. According to rough statistics, Yongle Dadian has selected and preserved as many as seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient books, five or six times as many as the previous generation, such as Literature and Art, Tailan, Yuangui, etc. It is a large series compiled in the Qing Dynasty, but it has only over three thousand kinds of books.