"Yongle Dadian" was written by Yao and others in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty. Ming Taizu ordered cabinet records and Prince Yao to preside over the compilation of "China Ancient Books Collection Yu Dacheng Epic Ceremony", formerly known as "Literary Masterpiece". The preface written by Emperor Yongle was named Yongle Grand Ceremony, which is the first encyclopedic literature collection in China, with a total of 22,877 volumes (60 volumes in the catalogue), 1 1095 volumes.

Its scale is far larger than all the books compiled by previous generations, leaving many rich stories and mysteries for future generations. It was compiled in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, and preserved the historical geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion and encyclopedic documents of China before14th century.

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In addition to more formal Confucian classics, hundreds of historical biographies, collections of past dynasties, etc. Yongle Dadian also contains a large number of Yu Fang Zhicheng, novels and operas, medical prescriptions, Taoist and Buddhist classics.

There are as many as seven or eight thousand kinds of important ancient books in Yongle Dadian. From the pre-Qin Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, it can really be said that it covered the vastness of the universe and unified the similarities and differences between ancient and modern times. Many of the secret books before Song and Yuan Dynasties have been lost, which can be preserved and circulated.

The collection of books includes: classics, history, philosophy, collections, Buddhism, Taoism, opera, vernacular, crafts, agriculture, medicine, literature and so on. The collected books are not easy to read a word, and they are compiled according to the whole book, the whole article or the whole paragraph, which further improves the documentary value of the preserved materials. The style of the book is "use rhyme to unify words and use words to finish things", which is very convenient to retrieve. ?

? Baidu encyclopedia-Yongle ceremony