There are 22,937 volumes of Yongle Dadian, and only over 800 volumes can be seen now, and they are scattered all over the world.

Among the encyclopedia entries, China's Yongle Dadian in Ming Dynasty is the largest encyclopedia in the world.

This is Judy's legacy to future generations.

So, who stole the book?

The compilation of Judy's Yongle Dadian is related to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a farmer and seldom studied, so he was very eager to learn common sense. Therefore, during the period of Zhu Yuanzhang, he ordered people to compile books and discussed and compiled hundreds of classics. However, Zhu Yuanzhang died before he finished speaking.

Judy's road to the throne is not smooth, but he must show everywhere that he is the orthodox son of heaven in order to fulfill his father. These are his last words. After Judy settled down, he often talked with others about compiling a book.

Judy's thinking is very clear. This book should record hundreds of books about classic subsets, because this book is customized. As for geography, geography, yin and yang, medical divination, Buddhism and Taoism, and martial arts, it should be compiled into a book. Don't go too far!

At first, Judy asked the Cabinet and Records, Jie Jin, a great beauty of the Ming Dynasty, to take the lead in compiling. Jie Jin is very fast. A year later, the compilation was completed and the original documents were integrated. However, as a follower of Confucianism, Jie Jin did not include books that denigrated Confucianism, which angered Judy and thought there was something wrong with the compilation.

In the third year of Yongle, there were 2 169 people in the ruling and opposition circles, except Yao, the prince of Shaofu, who was ordered to take the lead in reconstruction. Arrange supervisors, presidents, vice presidents and municipal presidents. And undertake various tasks.

Yongle five years, submit the final draft. Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty was very satisfied with this and named it Yongle Grand Ceremony. It was not until the sixth year of Yongle that it was officially written from the Qing Dynasty.

According to the schedule of entering Yongle, the book has written 22,877 volumes, 60 volumes, 65,438+065,438+0095 volumes.

Yongle dadian preserved the history of China14th century, including encyclopedic documents such as geography, literature, philosophy and religion. It is more than 300 years earlier than the Encyclopedia compiled by Diderot in France and the Encyclopedia Britannica in Britain. It can be described as the cultural heritage of 3 158 virtual image treasures in the world.

According to rough statistics, there are as many as seven or eight thousand kinds of modern books collected and kept by Yongle Dadian, the number of which is five or six times that of the previous generation. For example, The Collection of Arts and Records and The Peaceful Magnolia is a large-scale series compiled by the Qing Dynasty in Yuangui, with a collection of no more than 3,000 books.

However, this book also has many shortcomings. Experts suggest that Sikuquanshu has many mistakes, not that it has never been good at reducing phrases. Xie Baocheng pointed out that the medical items in the volume of Yongle Dadian, with rhyme 19637, were quoted from Yongle Dadian, originally from Volume 6 of Yu, with a record of 00.

Only one original book, Feather Department, was revised in Yongle period, and all the existing books are calligraphy in Jiajing period.

Sejong-ming likes Yongle Ceremony very much and often carries it with him to find a prescription. Jiajing forty-one years in August, life copy. Qin Long Chulecheng was originally lent to Nanjing. Its copy is kept in the Wen Yuan Pavilion, and its copy is kept in the history of the emperor.

Some people suspect that the manuscript is hidden in the tomb of Emperor Jiajing. If this is the case, it will be a bad thing, which will allow the Yongle ceremony to continue. However, most of the manuscripts were lost during the Jiajing period. There are more than 20,000 volumes of this book, and now only more than 800 volumes can be seen, most of which are scattered all over the country.

It is said that the National Library of China has 16 1 book, the Library of Congress of the United States has 40 books, and Britain has 5 1 book, among which the British Library, Oxford University Library, School of Western Languages of London University, Cambridge University, Hamburg University, Cologne University and Berlin Museum of Ethnology have 5 books. Library of Congress, Japan West Library, Kyoto University Library, Institute of Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan

According to Shi Cheng's records, printing was considered in the newly edited Yongle Dadian, but it was stopped because of the high labor cost. Thirty years after Jiajing's manuscript was re-recorded, Lu Kejiao, who made a toast to Nanjing Guo Zi, wrote a letter and proposed to hold an engraving ceremony, but somehow it was not adopted. Li Weizhen's criticism of Yongle Grand Ceremony is redundant, disgusting, and extremely lacking in ideological content, thus clarifying that Yongle Grand Ceremony still exists in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty. However, scholars Tan Qian and Gu in the late Ming Dynasty believed that Wanli was destroyed by fire at the end of the year. This ceremony was written by Liu Ruoyu, an eunuch who was familiar with the past in the late Ming Dynasty. He also said: Where is the old Yongle Grand Ceremony stored today? And there really is no clue. From 0755 to 79000, we came to a conclusion that the history of Ming Dynasty and Nanjing Empire was extinct. As we also said, when Jiajing copied it, he actually copied the original and the copy. After recording the copy, Yongle originally lent it to Nanjing, which was destroyed by the war in the late Ming Dynasty. These statements seem to have no clear historical basis.

Yu Jiaqing said that the fire destroyed the Qing palace.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, scholars such as Xu, Li and Yang invented a relatively complete Record of the History of the Emperor. During the Yongzheng period, this manuscript was transported to the Imperial Academy for safekeeping. Scholars from all over Wang Zu speculate that the manuscript of Yongle Grand Ceremony should still be in the Qing Palace, hoping to supplement the lost manuscript with the original manuscript. Miao also held the opposite view in the late Qing dynasty, and made it clear that the manuscript was burned in the palace fire during Jiaqing period. However, during the Qianlong period, there was no transcript when compiling Yongle Dadian. Moreover, when Emperor Qianlong compiled the Catalogue of Sikuquanshu, he also looked for the lost codex, but none of the officials who were the editors of Yongle Dadian at that time had seen the codex. It should be unreliable to say that the copy was destroyed by the Qing palace fire.

Martyrdom theory

His theory has been adopted by many scholars. They compared the burial time of Ming Shizong, who liked Tianlu's beautiful bibliography best, with the recording progress of Sikuquanshu, and judged from the sudden loss of the manuscript of Yongle Dadian. They speculated that the Yongle Grand Ceremony was probably buried in the tomb of Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty.

In fact, the theory of martyrdom does not mean that we can still find a complete copy of Yongle Dadian. However, the luck of this extremely expensive and hard-won book touched people again, and it received extensive attention and reports. Our luck has become a permanent knot in people's hearts, which makes every Chinese son and daughter feel nervous. This kind of mood is like a mother who lost her child, expecting her child to come back to me from the beginning.