Siku Quanshu in Jinwen Street

Sikuquanshu is a huge series in China. In the thirty-seventh year of Qingganlong (1772), the museum was opened for renovation, which took ten years to complete. * * * There are 3,503 kinds of books with 79,337 volumes, which are divided into four parts: classics, history, books and collections, hence the name Sikuquanshu. The main editors of this book are Ji Yun (Xiaolan) and Lu. There are 395 editors, all famous scholars at that time. The whole book is handwritten, which is the largest and earliest handwritten series in the world. At that time, four copies were copied in the north and three in the south. The four parts of the North are preserved in four places: Wen Yuan Pavilion (in the Forbidden City), Wenshui Pavilion (in the Forbidden City), Wen Yuan Pavilion (in the Yuanmingyuan) and chengde mountain resort Jinwen Pavilion. 1860, British and French troops invaded Beijing, and the whole book of Wenyuan Pavilion and Yuanmingyuan was burned. A copy of Wen Jinge's Sikuquanshu was carried into Beijing by camel from Chengde in 19 14, and is now in Beijing Library.