Yao Zhi, based on the Six Classics and Four Histories and the contention of a hundred schools of thought, "started with the Five Emperors and ended in the Jin Dynasty", with the aim of "managing politics and keeping admonitions" and "collecting more than 14,000 volumes and more than 89,000 volumes", worked hard for several years in Zhenguan for five years (630).
In a word, "book collection" is characterized by "erudition and importance". Wei Zhi and others collected 65 kinds of classics, history and sub-classics, and based on the principle of "politics and art" and "governing the Tao", deleted the complex and simplified it, took its essence and condensed it into 50 volumes of rare books.
Wei Zhi is a great statecraft, and his noble morality and excellent historical knowledge make Collection of Books a "book for the present", which is enough for reference; Passing on leaves can make Sun Mou a "classic".
However, this epic masterpiece has not been popularized because block printing has not yet been invented. In addition, the war in the late Tang Dynasty led to the loss of this book. Fortunately, Japan sent Tang envoys to copy it and brought it to Japan. After several generations of joint efforts, this book finally came to the bottom, which is really "lucky".
The influence of later generations
Make the past serve the present: a treasure house for rejuvenating China.
Although a book collection was born more than 1300 years ago, the thought of governing the country in the book is really a masterpiece of ancient sages and kings in China. His wisdom, ideas, methods, experience and achievements in governing the country and the world are the crystallization of treasures accumulated after thousands of years of tests.
As a condensed volume of China's traditional culture, Emperor Taizong took The Collection of Books as a mirror, "sages" as a training, and history as a mirror, so as to be a monarch, select people, govern the country and educate people. The background is obvious. Therefore, the book "Collection of Books" has naturally become a textbook for emperors after Emperor Taizong, and even auxiliary ministers and officials at all levels to cultivate themselves, govern the country and level the world.
Nowadays, many experts, scholars and social sages also consider this book as "the integration of the essence of China's traditional culture, the compilation of past dynasties' experience in governing the country and the people, the theoretical outline of Confucianism's" self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world ",the policy guide of" Zhenguan rule "in the Tang Dynasty, the reference for leading cadres in politics today, and the must-read for building a harmonious society".
"With copper as a mirror, you can be well dressed; Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; Taking people as a mirror, we can see the gains and losses. " Although the changes of science and technology are changing with each passing day, the cultural education of ancient sages in China is eternal. We believe that the wisdom of China sages is still a good solution to many contemporary problems.
Self-cultivation and harmonious society are necessary for everyone.
Collection of Books is the first book in the history of China classified by classics and history. It can be said that it is the "Sikuquanshu" of the Tang Dynasty.
Great Virtue, a contemporary Buddhist monk, said: As Dr. Tang Enbi of Britain said, the only way to solve the intractable diseases in the 2 1 century society is to rely on China's Confucius and Mencius theory and Mahayana Buddhism. This book compiled by Emperor Taizong should be sent to all countries in the world to study. So some people say that 2 1 century is the century of China people and the century of China people's culture.
The people of China saved the world, not in politics, military affairs, science and technology, economy and trade, but in China culture. The spiritual concept of Chinese culture can be passed down, and the most important thing is that our ancestors left us with symbols of incomparable wisdom. China's written language takes classical Chinese as the carrier. Collection of Books is a collection of China classics, selected from more than 89,000 volumes.
Collection of Books is the wisdom, method, effect and experience of ancient sages governing the country for thousands of years. Its thought is eternal, and it should and will be a good way to solve many social problems in contemporary China.