The integration of ancient and modern books is the largest and richest book in existence.
Yongle Dadian has 22,877 volumes and 60 volumes, divided into 10095 volumes, with about 370 million words. The scale of Yongle Dadian is far ahead of all the books compiled in previous generations. Even The Collection of Ancient and Modern Books, the largest book compiled in the Qing Dynasty, has only 1 1,000 volumes and 1 1,600,000 words, which is less than half of Yongle Dadian. The scale of Yongle Dadian is beyond the reach of western contemporary classics. 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 that of the previous generation, such as Lei Ju of Literature and Art, Taiping Yulan and Yuangui, etc. It is a large-scale series compiled in the Qing Dynasty, but there are only over three thousand kinds of books in its collection. Yongle ceremony is often devastated, and most of them died in war. Today, there are less than 800 volumes.
Collection of Ancient and Modern Books, with a volume of *** 10000 and a directory of 40 volumes, was originally named Collection of Ancient and Modern Books, which was a large-scale book edited by Chen Menglei (1650- 174 1), a Fujian official in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. This book has been edited for 28 years, with 65,438+00,000 volumes of text and 40 volumes of content. * * There are 5020 volumes, 520 letters, more than 420,000 pages,1600,000 words. The content is divided into 6 parts, 32 classics, 665,438+065,438+07. This is the largest and most informative book in existence.
Integrating ancient and modern books, Yongle Dadian and Sikuquanshu are listed as the three royal masterpieces in ancient China. Compared with ancient and modern books, Yongle Dadian, which was written in Ming Dynasty, belongs to a kind of book, but it is less than 4% because of the war in Eight-Nation Alliance in Qing Dynasty. Sikuquanshu was written in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and it belongs to the largest existing series (note that Sikuquanshu is a series, series: a set of series compiled by many books, and various works are compiled under a common name according to certain purposes, which is called series, also known as series, cluster engraving or collection engraving, etc. Category book: a large-scale information book in ancient China, which collects information from various books and arranges them according to category and rhyme for reference)