What are the books and classics of the Ming Dynasty?
The book compilation in Ming Dynasty made great progress than that in Song and Yuan Dynasties. The greatest achievement is still in the compilation series, two of which appear in the form of sequels to Hundred Rivers Learning the Sea. One is Wu Yong's "Continuing the Hundred Rivers to Learn the Sea", which is divided into ten episodes with heavenly stems. Collected 104 kinds of notes of people in the Han, Wei, Six Dynasties, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties that were not collected in Baijiang Xuehai, among which there are many works by people in the Song Dynasty. The other is Feng Kebin's Hundred Rivers Learn the Sea, which is also divided into ten episodes with heavenly stems as the theme, bringing together the works of the Southern Dynasties, the Tang and Song Dynasties and the Yuan and Ming Dynasties that have not been collected before, 132 kinds of * * *, mainly works of the Ming Dynasty. During Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, China's first series, Han Wei Series, was edited by He Tang. There are hundreds of books in the original catalogue, which are divided into four parts: classics, history, books and collections. During the Wanli period, Rongcheng only published eleven kinds of classics, four kinds of history books, twenty-three kinds of subdivisions and thirty-eight kinds of * *. Soon, He Yunzhong added seventy-six kinds, making the four books complete, which was called Guanghan Wei Series. Later, the Tang and Song series compiled by Zhong and Chen inherited the Han and Wei series. Although the Tang and Song series is called "Tang and Song", it was actually collected from the Six Dynasties to the Tang and Song Dynasties. Large-scale comprehensive miscellaneous collections compiled in Ming Dynasty include Baishan, Hu's Gezhi Series, Chen Jiru's Secret Collection of Baoyantang, Ye Shaotai's Notes of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and Secretary of the Jin Biography.