Chapter 1372

Regarding the"Yongle Dadian", it was actually lost since the Ming Dynasty. Later, as time went by, more of the"Yongle Dadian" was lost.

Quan Zuwang and Li Fu were both great scholars in the Qing Dynasty. During the Yongzheng period, they opened the Sanli Hall. Quan and Li worked in the Hanlin Academy and had access to the"Yongle Dadian".

They saw many books that had never been seen in the world in the"Yongle Dadian" and exclaimed that they were"treasures of the universe".

After the two discussed, they felt that they should first compile the books that were imaginable but not available.

Quan Zuwang wrote the"Records of the Yongle Dadian" and believed that there were five categories of books that needed to be compiled most, namely classics, history, Zhicheng, clan, and art.

From then on, the two read 20 volumes every day, signed out the titles of the books they wanted to compile, and then the other four people copied them.

In this way, I crawled and combed every day and sorted out more than ten kinds of books such as Wang Anshi's"Zhou Guan Xin Yi" and Gao's"Spring and Autumn Yizong".

But how could two people read the voluminous"Yongle Dadian" once?

The long-term editing work made both of them feel physically and mentally exhausted.

In the second year, Quan Zuwang resigned from office and returned to his hometown, so he had to do the work of compilation of lost works.

However, the compilation results of Quan and Li attracted widespread attention from scholars, and laid the foundation for the subsequent systematic compilation of the"Yongle Dadian" by the officials of the"Sikuquanshu".

The Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties once compiled a large-scale collection of books called"Collection of Ancient and Modern Books". Emperor Qianlong was very dissatisfied with the style of this book. He believed that although the collection of books could be comprehensive and comprehensive,"it should be tailored according to the category"."The method makes it impossible for people to see the whole picture of the book, trace its origins, and find out where it comes from.

He wants to do something that no one has done before, compile a large series of books——《Sikuquanshu" to make up for the lack of Lei Shu.

He also named the pavilion where the"Sikuquanshu" is stored with Yuan, Yuan, Jin, and Sui, highlighting that his book can truly"trace its origins."

At this time, academic administrator Zhu Jun and Siku President Yu Minzhong both suggested that Emperor Qianlong compile a large number of scattered ancient books in the"Yongle Dadian", which gained Emperor Qianlong's attention.

At the beginning of opening Sikuquan Library, he issued two imperial edicts, ordering the compilation and collection of the lost ancient books in the"Yongle Dadian".

In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong's reign, the Qing government revised the"Sikuquanshu" and found that 2,422 volumes of"Yongle Dadian" were missing, about a thousand volumes.

The officials of Siku compiled a large number of lost books from the"Yongle Dadian", 385 of which were included in the"Sikuquanshu".

In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong's reign, Siku Quanshu Library compiled the"Yongle Dadian". A total of 39 famous scholars at the time, including Dai Zhen, Shao Jinhan and Zhou Yongnian, participated in the compilation. Among them, Zhou Yongnian worked most diligently on the poetry collections of Song and Yuan dynasties."History of the Old Five Dynasties" compiled by Shao Jinhan》、《"Nine Kingdoms" and"Suan Jing" compiled by Dai Zhen also achieved their own successes.

By the forty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign (1781), a total of 385 categories and 4,946 volumes of four books, namely Jing, Shi, Zi, and Ji, had been compiled.

Famous ones include the"Old History of the Five Dynasties" which was later included in the Twenty-Four Histories, the important work"Annals of the Years Since Jianyan" which records the historical facts of the early Southern Song Dynasty, the"Yuanhe Surname Compilation" which examines the lineage of the Tang people, and the famous bibliography"Zhizhai Shulu Jieti" and"Spring and Autumn Interpretations" by Du Yu of the Western Jin Dynasty, etc.

As for the poetry collections of Song and Yuan people, there are 175 kinds. Many important lost classics have been restored to their original appearance through this collection.

The reason why Emperor Qianlong adhered to the orthodox views of Confucianism during the compilation was that"the essence has been exhausted and the dross can be discarded." All Buddhism, Taoism, opera, novels, etc. were not included in the compilation..

Some scientific and technological works, such as Deng Yufu's 200-volume"Lunar Calendar", are more detailed than"Essential Art of Qi Min". There are also some military inventions that were feared to be learned by foreigners, so they were all thrown away without inclusion.

There are even scattered pieces that have been compiled and lost, such as"Jiangjinhebi"》、《"History of Jin Hui Chen" and other important local chronicles, or the checked out classics"Yuan Yi Tong Zhi" and other important local chronicles were all discarded.

After Siku Guan systematically compiled the"Yongle Dadian" and lost it, the historical materials in the"Dadian" were used when compiling"Quan Tangwen" and"Unification of the Qing Dynasty" during the Jiaqing period. However, Xu Song’s greatest contribution was his compilation work. He compiled 500 volumes of"Song Huiyao" and"Song Zhongxing Rites".》、《Continuation of Zhongxing Rites》、《Yuan Henan Chronicles" and so on are large books with more than 100 volumes.

Later Wen Tingshi compiled"Notes of the Yuan Dynasty"》、《Zhuangyuan of the Song Dynasty and his pictures, etc., Miao Quansun compiled"Luzhou Chronicles of the Ming Dynasty"》、《Ming Yongle Shuntianfu Chronicles", Dong Kang compiled"Xantai Tongji".

Lu Yan actually also wants to compile a large book.

Summarize the culture of Yun Kingdom, biographies, and other things.

Written into a large book.

But there are too many wars in the Yun Kingdom now.

Lu Yan also had a lot of ambition and lack of energy.

Compiling books is not something you can just do, it requires a lot of talent and a lot of books.

Without books, it is impossible to make things up out of thin air.

What they have to do is sort out and compile everything else into a book for the benefit of all people

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After Lu Yan packed up the things from Jin Kingdom, he went to Tongque Terrace.

Tongque Terrace is still some distance away from Yunwang Palace.

But riding a horse is fast.

Lu Yan stayed at the Tongque Terrace at night.