Sikuquanshu is the largest official learning series in China and the largest cultural project in China and even the world compiled by Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty. The book is divided into four parts: classics, history, books and collections. There are 3503 kinds of books, 79309 volumes, 6793 kinds, 9355 1 volume, more than 36000 sub-packages, about 65.438 billion words. It is equivalent to 44 times of the encyclopedia edited by Diderot in France at the same time. Collected many important classics of China before Qianlong. Because the editors were all famous scholars at that time, representing the highest academic level at that time. Although the original intention of compiling and editing this book was "forbidden", it objectively sorted out and preserved a large number of important classics, initiated the bibliography of China, and established the dominant position of Chinese studies in social culture, which has unparalleled documentary value, historical value, cultural relic value and edition value. The publication of the Collection of Sikuquanshu selects the essence of Sikuquanshu to facilitate readers' reading. The selected articles are interesting and radiant, and every word is intriguing. There are no unwise people, and the essence of Taoist and artistic articles for thousands of years have gathered in Sri Lanka.
In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (1773), the edition of Sikuquanshu officially began, with Ji Yun, Liu and Sun Shiyi as the editors, a captain from Wei Liu, more than 400 editors, branch captains and producer. Celebrity bachelors, such as Dai Zhen (Master of Chinese Studies), Shao (Master of History), Yao Nai and He also participated. At the same time, nearly 4000 copywriters were recruited, and Dazhi University gathered together, and Yilin Hanhai was an unprecedented event, which lasted 10 years. To 1782, the preparation was initially completed; Starting from 1793. It costs a lot, which is the concrete embodiment of "anti-prosperity" in the cultural history. In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (later 1773), shortly after the establishment of Siku Quanshu Library, the presidents considered that this book covered all ages and the number would be large, so they put forward suggestions on color separation and binding of classics, history, books and collections. After the book is completed, it will be decorated in four colors according to the seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, that is, the classic department is green, the history department is red, the branch department is white, and the collection department is gray-black for review. Because of the large number of volumes, it is not easy to read. The imperial edict of Qianlong ordered the compilation of a bibliography, which only recorded the title, volume number, year and author's name, so that scholars could "find abstracts from the bibliography and get the whole book from the abstracts". In the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong (1774), Ji Yun, Liu and others, the chief editors, were ordered by Emperor Qianlong to copy the books into Sikuquanshu, which was published one by one in four historical subsets. Please write a few words if you have any questions that need special explanation. This book came to an end in forty-six years of Qianlong, with a total of twenty volumes. In fact, it is an abridged version of the Catalogue of Siku Quanshu. The classification of China's classical cultural classics began with the Seven Views of Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty. Xun Xu in the Western Jin Dynasty established four major classifications: Jing, Shi, Zi and Ji. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the imperial library, the secretary province, the Hanlin Academy and other important collection places all collected books according to classics, history, books and collections, which were called "Siku Books". Qing Qianlong opened the "Siku Quanshu Museum", which was named "Siku Quanshu" when compiled. Due to the compilation of Sikuquanshu, many important classics before the Qing Dynasty were completely preserved. There are seven copies of Sikuquanshu, which are kept in Wen Yuan Pavilion in the Forbidden City, Wenshui Pavilion in Shengjing Palace (now Shenyang) and Jinwen Pavilion in chengde mountain resort, Hebei Province, the source of the Yuanmingyuan in Beijing. This is the North Fourth Pavilion, also called the Inner Court Pavilion, which is only for the royal family to read. The other three are located in Wenhui Pavilion in Yangzhou, Wenzong Pavilion in Zhenjiang and Wen Lan Pavilion in Hangzhou, namely Zhejiang Sange, also known as Nansangge, allowing scholars to enter the pavilion to study. In modern China, only three of the seven "Sikuquanshu" were kept intact due to the constant wars. The collections of Wen Hui Pavilion and Wenzong Pavilion were destroyed in the First Opium War. The collection of Wenyuan Pavilion was burned by the British and French allied forces; Many books in Wen Lan Ge were lost, but later they were basically completely copied, but not the original. 1948, when the Kuomintang government left the mainland and went to Taiwan Province Province to transport some precious collections of the Palace Museum to Taiwan Province Province, it brought the most precious collection of Sikuquanshu, Wenyuange, to Taiwan Province Province, and Wenyuange's Sikuquanshu is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Because Si Ku Quan Shu was compiled by Qianlong, it was called "Ji Gu You Wen" in order to maintain the rule of Qing Dynasty, but it was actually "contained in Zheng", and a large number of books were collected, banned, deleted and destroyed. According to several banned books and related records, more than 2,400 kinds of books were destroyed, more than 400 kinds of books were destroyed, and 70,000 or 80,000 books were burned. At the same time, Daxing "Wenzi Prison", after the opening of Siku Quanshu, there were 48 cases of "Wen% D" in 10.