If the Yongle ceremony reappears, there are at least two important meanings:
First: If we find the complete version of Yongle Dadian, it will probably change history.
Second: Yongle Dadian contains more than 7,000 ancient books. If the original is copied in the world, it will certainly enrich my culture. ? Yongle Dadian is an encyclopedia compiled by Judy, the emperor of Ming Dynasty. The reason why Judy wrote such a book is not only to highlight his emperor's achievements, but also because he experienced the brutal rule of the Mongols at that time, and the culture of China before the Song Dynasty was greatly destroyed, and many cultural classics were lost.
To this end, Judy decided to compile a book containing ancient and modern classics, covering a subset of classics, medicine, agriculture, astronomy, geography and other categories. what is the purpose? As for astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medical divination, Buddhism and Taoism, and skills, they are all compiled into one book? .
At first, Jie Jin presided over the compilation with 147 people, and it took a year to compile the first edition. At that time, I was not satisfied after the review, so I let Yao take the lead and expanded the team by more than 2,000 people. Finally, it was scheduled for the fifth year of Yongle in A.D. 1407, and it was named Yongle Grand Ceremony.
The position of Yongle Dadian in the history of world literature
The Grand Ceremony of Yongle has a total of 370 million words, with a volume of 1 1095, which is more than 300 years earlier than the Encyclopedia Britannica. It not only records the important China culture, but also is the largest encyclopedia in the world so far.
In addition, it has preserved nearly 7,000 kinds of ancient books and records, and the Sikuquanshu collected 3,000 kinds during the Qianlong period alone.
Different from Sikuquanshu, Yongle Dadian completed such a masterpiece in only a few years, so some people once questioned that it was definitely not a book revision, but should be called copying books. However, compared with the revision of Sikuquanshu, Sikuquanshu revised the ancient cultural classics according to the requirements of the Qing Dynasty for Manchu rule, but the ancient classics included in it lost their real value. In addition, Yongle Dadian also contains many cultural classics that have long been lost. It is said that Ji Xiaolan used the weapons of the Song Dynasty in Yongle Dadian when compiling Sikuquanshu? Arm bow? .
Arm bow? This is an artifact of the Song Dynasty. It is said that it can shoot through the armor 300 paces away, and it is an artifact against the army nomads. However, it was lost in Yuan Shizu.
How did the Yongle ceremony disappear?
This is such a wonderful book. However, shortly after its publication, the book began to enter the lost mode. At present, the Yongle ceremony we see is a replica of Jiajing period. At that time, the original was hidden in Wenyuan Museum, and the replica was hidden in Huangshiguang.
During the Qianlong period, there were only more than 8,000 volumes left, so some scholars suspected that Jiajing's manuscript might not have been copied at all.
There have always been three statements about the disappearance of Yongle Grand Ceremony:
First of all, the Yongle Grand Ceremony was buried as a funerary object in Judy's Changling, or possibly in Jiajing's Yongling. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was repeatedly proposed to explore the Ming Changling, one of which was to find the long-lost Yongle Grand Ceremony in the Changling, but in the end this proposal was not passed.
Second: put out the palace fire during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.
Third: Jiaqing was destroyed by a palace fire.
Then it experienced the looting in Eight-Nation Alliance, and the fragments suffered devastating damage again, which led to the Yongle Grand Ceremony scattered all over the world.
According to the latest statistics, the Yongle Grand Ceremony ***4 18, more than 800 volumes and some zero pages are collected by more than 30 institutions in 8 countries and regions.
The National Library of China has only 224 volumes in Tibet. ? What will the reappearance of Yongle Dadian change?
1. History may be rewritten.
Some people suggested that there was the SikuQuanShu even without the Yongle Ceremony, but the difference was that when the SikuQuanShu was compiled, the Qing Dynasty was building a literary inquisition, and many cultural heritages and viewpoints were revised according to the requirements of the Qing Dynasty. Although they are bigger than the Yongle ceremony, the content of castration is true. If the Yongle ceremony really reappears, a lot of history may be rewritten.
2. The reappearance of disappeared ancient books
There are many important ancient documents preserved in Yongle Dadian, such as Medical Records in the Spring and Autumn Period, Liang Fang in Su Shen, and A Brief Introduction to Febrile Diseases, a famous medical work in Song Dynasty.
Therefore, if we can instinctively discover Yongle Dadian, it will be a great supplement to our novels, traditional Chinese opera classics, medical books, Buddhist and Taoist classics and Yu Fang Zhicheng.
It is really embarrassing to think about the existing 224 volumes in China and the original 1 1095 volume. If Yongle Dadian reappears in the world, it will not only be a cultural feast, but also a reappearance of encyclopedic knowledge 14 century ago. Those scattered and disappeared ancient books in history will be presented to the world again, providing important research clues for human beings to study ancient cultural history.