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.

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Introduction to this book:

Yongle Dadian is a large-scale book compiled by China in ancient times, which is a precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. There are 22,877 volumes of text, 60 volumes of sample texts and 1 1095 volumes, with a total word count of about 370 million.

This book preserves the lost secrets of China since the pre-Qin, Song and Yuan Dynasties, and there are more than 8,000 kinds of ancient books from the early Ming Dynasty. This is an encyclopedia of ancient China.

1960, Zhonghua Book Company photocopied and published 730 volumes collected over the years, accounting for only 3% of the original books.

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