What is the Yongle Canon?

I'm afraid that with the current level of Chinese people, a considerable number of people can't say it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info is a small character "Siku Quanshu" that is much smaller than it, thanks to the blessing of Qing court dramas, many people know it. After all, it was the guy with iron teeth and bronze teeth who was responsible for organizing the compilation of the personnel.

Many people know that "Siku Quanshu" was written by Emperor Qianlong in order to show his prestige in the prosperous era, and asked Ji Dacai to be responsible for compiling this series. The four libraries of the "Four Libraries Quanshu" are a subset of the classics and histories. Of course, we can only guess whether there is any other purpose in compiling this series, but the responsible impact caused by the process of compiling it is really too great, and people have to doubt the sinister intentions of Qianlong, the prosperous emperor who has nothing to show for it.

In order to compile the Siku Quanshu, the officials confiscated private collections from all over the country, and of course, most of the books confiscated were not used to compile a series of books, nor to enrich the royal treasury, but were burned - burned.

Why?

It is said that it is a violation of the ban.

The three most prosperous eras of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, were also the time when the literary prison was the most overflowing. A large number of literati were killed, and a large number of books were destroyed. Moreover, the Qin Emperor pitted those swaggering monks and witches, and it was not Confucianism and other prominent books that were burned, but it was just that the later Confucians arranged it into a major historical crime - the ultimate reason was that the Qin Emperor reused the Legalists and did not use Confucianism, so the later generations of Confucians wrote history, and naturally did not give the Qin Emperor a good reputation.

And there were many Confucians who surrendered in the Qing Dynasty, and history was also written by them, so naturally Qianlong would not be written badly...... Otherwise, if they surrender to a tyrant, what face do they have?

This is history, especially the history after the Song Dynasty, after the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the literati have not survived much, resulting in the true trend of history has been completely annihilated in the long river of time, what we can see is only a little fragment, and it is a distorted fragment.

It's far away, let's pull it back.

Now it is claimed to be the largest surviving "Siku Quanshu" in China, but it only contains 3,0800 kinds of books, while the "Yongle Canon" selects and preserves as many as 7,800 kinds of ancient books and classics!

"Yongle Canon" is edited by the great genius Xie Jin, with more than 20,000 volumes, 11,095 volumes, and 370 million words. The original is suspected to be stored in the Ming Changling, the copy was tragically destroyed, most of them were destroyed in the war, and now there are more than 400 volumes in total, more than 800 volumes, scattered all over the world. It preserves the history and geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion and other encyclopedic documents of China before the fourteenth century, and the Encyclopedia Britannica calls the Yongle Dadian the largest encyclopedia the world has ever seen in the "Encyclopedia" entry!

The Yongle Canon is a book of its kind, which took six years to compile, and was originally known as the Dacheng of Literature, the main purpose of which is to collect meaningful and valuable classical books into the book.

It's not that we are here to criticize the descendants of the Tunguska boar skin, the more outstanding emperors of the Qing Dynasty are really petty. compiled a "Siku Quanshu", and burned countless other precious classics. Even Kangxi, who was named the first emperor of the ages, just adhered to the attitude of the family and the world, forbidding the sea, etc., although he himself was relatively knowledgeable, but in fact he was useless for governing the country.

Yongle is different, although it is also a family in the world, but at least the Son of Heaven guards the country and does a very good job. When he wrote the "Yongle Canon", when collecting the books, he did not destroy those miscellaneous books, and he was eclectic with foreign cultures, but it is a pity that this book was destroyed in the war. Even the largest collection of the Huaxia National Library is only more than 200 volumes, accounting for one-fiftieth of the total!

And with the actual value of the "Yongle Canon", it is not surprising to say that it is a national treasure!

Where did the rest of the Yongle Canon go?

This set of strange books was originally hidden in the royal family. When Qianlong was looking for someone to compile the "Siku Quanshu", he was allowed to borrow the "Yongle Canon". Although according to the regulations, this book could only be read and not taken out at that time, but it was a relic of the previous dynasty, and some literati and good scholars managed to take some of it out of the palace, and then it was lost.

Of course, the biggest loss was the invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Coalition in 1900, because the "Yongle Grand Canon" was thick and hard, and some of the invading troops used it to build fortifications, and some directly took it as their own, and then ...... That's it for now.

Therefore, when Professor Peng and others identified this box of old books as "Yongle Canon", they were so excited that they almost shed tears!

How can you not be excited to get so many "Yongle Canon" unexpectedly?

"Is it true?" This time, even He Dongcheng stood up excitedly, he walked to the front of the stage and asked nervously.

"Preliminary identification, it's true!" Professor Peng was still more excited, he patted the box gently, and then said: "We have just counted, a total of seventy-three volumes, one hundred and fifty-one volumes, each volume of fifty pages, about 50 centimeters high, 30 centimeters wide, the pages of the book are made of snow-white, thick bark paper, the book clothes are hard-mounted with multiple layers of rice paper, and the yellow silk is wrapped with the brain, which is in line with the binding style of the "Yongle Grand Canon". Look here," Professor Peng said, pointing to the upper left of the front of an old book, "This bookmark is glued to it, with the four words 'Yongle Dadian' and the number of volumes below, which is completely in line with the characteristics of the Yongle Dadian." Although carbon 14 has not yet been used to detect the age of this old book, a few of us have basically confirmed that this box of ancient books is basically the "Yongle Canon" is correct! ”

As he spoke, Professor Peng couldn't help but cautiously turn the page, pointed to the words on it and said, "Look at this word!" Here is written in two colors, Zhu and ink, and the paintings here are all artificially drawn, how beautiful, how beautiful, how atmospheric! This is the Ming Dynasty commonly used pavilion style regular script, exquisite and beautiful, can be regarded as calligraphy everyone's work! I can see so many "Yongle Canon" return in this life, to be honest, I really feel that it is worth it! ”

In the monitoring room, Lin Dong also opened his mouth wide, he didn't expect that the auction he had engaged in about the quota would be able to lead out a precious national treasure like the "Yongle Canon"!

Lin Dong was only surprised, and immediately said to He Dongcheng and Manager Zhang through the microphone: "Announce the result: If this Don Sbaator is willing to exchange for it, he will get a place!" ”

When He Dongcheng heard Lin Dong's words, he immediately said to Don Sbato next to him: "Mr. Don Sbaatar, are you willing to exchange this box of books for a place on the moon?" ”

Don Baator was not stupid, he already knew from the expressions and movements of the few people just now that the box of old books he brought was very valuable.

However, he didn't think it made any difference to himself, as long as there was a place, what was the book? After all, it is a cultural relic of China!

"I'll pay five million dollars for this box of books for you!"

Suddenly, a voice interrupted the decision that Downsbato was about to make.

Five million dollars?

He Dongcheng turned his head to look at this malicious interrupter - this is a tall white man!

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