2. Introduction: "Yongle Dadian" was compiled in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, and Jie Jin, the chief editor of the Cabinet, was a master of Chinese classical works. Formerly known as Literary Masterpieces, it is an encyclopedic collection of China literature, with 22,937 volumes (60 volumes in the catalogue) and 1 1095 volumes, with about 370 million words. Encyclopedia Britannica called China's Ming Dynasty book Yongle Dadian "the largest encyclopedia in world history".