The contents of Yongle Dadian include poetry, drama, monks, Taoism, medicine, technology and so on. Among them, Yongle Dadian also contains many precious books that have been incomplete or lost in later generations, such as Xue's A Brief History of Liao Dynasty and Shui Jing Zhu in Song Dynasty. The quoted materials are completely copied from the original text, so many precious documents can be preserved.
The arrangement of Yongle Dadian is very scientific, which is somewhat similar to the pinyin indexing method in the current dictionary, but it is based on Hongwu Zheng Yun in the Ming Dynasty. Its style is "unifying words with rhymes and linking things with words", that is to say, there are many words under each rhyme, and each word is divided into astronomy, geography, personnel, things, poems, lyrics and other related aspects.
The word "door" is interpreted in different fonts in front of the book. The regular script is dignified, the cursive script is wild, and the official script is beautiful, showing the charm of Chinese characters. This book quotes 66 kinds of ancient books and 46 illustrations. This paper records the ancient white tiger gate, Xuanwu gate and other different levels of doors in China, as well as their structures, categories, styles and anecdotes. It's colorful.
The Grand Ceremony of Yongle was written in the sixth year of Yongle, and it was collected in Nanjing Wen Yuan Pavilion. In the 19th year of Yongle, Ming Taizu Judy moved to Beijing, and also brought the Yongle Grand Ceremony to Beijing, where it was collected in Wenyuan Pavilion in the palace.
Yongle Dadian is not only huge in length and extensive in collection, but also neat in handwriting. All the words in the book are regular script written with a brush, with eight lines in each half page, one line in big characters and two lines in small characters, each with 28 words; There are many beautiful illustrations in Yongle Dadian. Mountains and rivers are all drawn in simple ways, with vivid shapes. The book is written in a hard frame and wrapped in thick yellow cloth, which is elegant and solemn. It is praised as a rare treasure in the world by experts and scholars at home and abroad.