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The Yongle Dadian was placed in Wenyuan Ge (文淵閣) in Nanjing until 1421, when the Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Beijing and placed the Yongle Dadian in the Forbidden City. [6] In 1557, during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor, the encyclopedia was narrowly saved from a fire that burnt down three palaces in the Forbidden City.
The Yongle Dadian, the largest leishu ever compiled. The genre first appeared in the early third century. The earliest known was the Huanglan ("Emperor's mirror" [a]). Sponsored by the emperor of Cao Wei, it was compiled around 220, but has since been lost. [2] However, the term leishu was not used until the Song dynasty (960–1279). [1]
Yongle Encyclopedia (永樂大典; Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn) Two volumes (comprising chapters 2268–2269 and 7391–7392) of the manuscript copy of the Yongle Encyclopedia produced between 1562 and 1567 for the Jiajing Emperor. The original copy produced between 1403 and 1408 is now lost, and only about 400 of the 11,095 volumes of the 16th-century ...
The Yongle Emperor (2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Chengzu of Ming, personal name Zhu Di, was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1402 to 1424. He was the fourth son of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder and first emperor of the dynasty.
A modern corrected and punctuated edition was published in 1979 by the Shanghai guji chubanshe (上海古籍出版社) publishing house, which contains collected passages from books from the Song and Yuan dynasties as well as from the encyclopedia Yongle dadian (永樂大典 / 永乐大典). Wikisource
Yongle Encyclopedia: Largest general leishu encyclopedia, quotes from 8,000 texts, 22,937 fascicles 1609: Ming dynasty: Sancai Tuhui: Illustrated encyclopedia of articles in many fields of knowledge, 106 fascicles 1621: Ming dynasty: Wubei Zhi: Encyclopedic history of military affairs, 240 fascicles 1627: Ming dynasty: Yuanxi Qiqi Tushuo Luzui
The gold plating on the copper tanks in front of the Forbidden City palaces was scraped off by allied troops, leaving scratch marks that can be seen even now. The Yongle Dadian that was compiled by 2,100 scholars during the Ming Yongle period (1403–1408), with a total of 22,870 volumes, was partially destroyed in the Second Opium War in 1860 ...
Of these 347 different military treatises from the Song period, only the Wujing Zongyao, the Huqianjing (Tiger Seal Manual) of Xu Dong in 1004 AD, and fragments of similar works found in the later Yongle Dadian, have survived. [5]