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Chapter 1048 The Grand Ceremony of Yongle
What is "Yongle Dadian"?
I'm afraid that with the current level of Chinese people, quite a few people can't tell.On the other hand, the "Siku Quanshu" of the younger generation, which is much smaller than it, was blessed by Qing palace dramas, and many people know it.After all, it was the brazen-toothed guy who was in charge of organizing the compilation.

Many people know that the "Siku Quanshu" was compiled by Emperor Qianlong in order to show his prestige in the prosperous age. The Siku of "Siku Quanshu" is a subset of classics and history.Of course, we can only guess whether there is any other purpose for writing this series of books, but the responsible influence caused by the process of writing is really too great, which makes people have to doubt that Qianlong, the pompous emperor of the prosperous age, Sinister intentions.

In order to compile the "Siku Quanshu", the officials confiscated private collections from all over the country at that time. Of course, most of the collected books were not used to compile a series of books, nor to enrich the royal library, but burned——burned .

why?
Said it was forbidden.

The three most prosperous eras of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, were also the times when literary prisons were the most rampant.A large number of literati were killed, and a large collection of books was destroyed. In fact, Qin Huang's burning of books and burying Confucian scholars is really child's play.What's more, Qinhuang pitted those alchemists and witches who bluffed and deceived, and what was burned was not Confucianism, Fa, Mohism and other prominent books, but it was just made up by the later Confucianists into a major historical crime-the ultimate reason is nothing more than Emperor Qin emphasized Legalists, but not Confucianism, so later generations of Confucianists would naturally not give Emperor Qin a good reputation when they wrote history.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were many Confucianists who surrendered, and history was written by them. Naturally, Qianlong would not be written so badly... Otherwise, they surrendered to a tyrant, what face would they have?
This is history, especially the history after the Song Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the strength of the literati has not survived much, and the true trend of history has been completely annihilated in the long river of time. What we can see is only a little Fragments, and distorted fragments at that.

Pulled away, let's pull it back.

The "Siku Quanshu", which is now known as the largest surviving book in China, only contains [-] kinds of books, while the "Yongle Dadian" collects and preserves as many as [-] to [-] kinds of ancient books!

"Yongle Dadian" was edited by the great talent Xie Jin. It has more than 2 volumes, 11095 volumes, and 3.7 million words.The original copy is suspected to be stored in the Changling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty, but the copies suffered a catastrophe, most of which were destroyed in the war. Now there are more than 400 volumes in the world, a total of more than 800 volumes, scattered all over the world.It preserves the history, geography, literature and art, philosophy, religion and other encyclopedic documents of China before the [-]th century. "Encyclopedia Britannica" called "Yongle Dadian" as the largest encyclopedia in the history of the world in the "Encyclopedia" entry!

"Yongle Dadian" is a kind of book, which took six years to compile. It was originally called "Document Dacheng". Its main purpose is to collect meaningful and valuable classical books into the book.

We are not here to criticize the descendants of the Tunguska wild boar skin. Those few outstanding emperors in the Qing Dynasty were really petty.Compiled a "Siku Quanshu", and burned countless other precious classics.Even Kangxi, who was rated as the first emperor through the ages, is just holding the attitude of family and banning the sea. Although he is relatively knowledgeable, he is actually useless in governing the country.

But Yongle is different, although it is also home to the world, but at least the emperor is guarding the country, and he is doing very well.When people compiled the "Yongle Dadian", when collecting books, they didn't destroy those miscellaneous books, and they absorbed foreign cultures. It's a pity that this rare book of mining history was destroyed in the fire of war.Even the Huaxia National Library has the largest collection, only about two hundred volumes, accounting for one-fiftieth of the total!

However, based on the actual value of "Yongle Dadian", it is not surprising to say that it is a national treasure!
Where did the rest of the "Yongle Dadian" go?
This set of rare books was originally hidden in the royal family.When Qianlong asked someone to compile the "Siku Quanshu", he allowed the "Yongle Dadian" to be borrowed.Although it was stipulated that the book could only be read and not taken out, it was a relic of the previous dynasty. Some literati and good books tried to take part of it out of the palace, and then it was lost.

Of course, the biggest loss was when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded BJ City in 1900, because the "Yongle Dadian" was thick and hard, some invading troops used it to build fortifications, and some directly took it as their own, and then... just That's it 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 Dadian" by accident?
"Is it true?" This time even He Dongcheng stood up excitedly, and he walked to the front of the stage and asked nervously.

"Preliminary identification, it's true!" Professor Peng was still quite excited, he patted the box lightly, and then said: "We just counted, there are 73 volumes in total, 150 in one volume, fifty pages in each volume, about It is 50 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide. The pages are made of snow-white, thick bark paper, and the jacket is hard-mounted with multiple layers of rice paper, wrapped with yellow silk, which conforms to the binding style of "Yongle Dadian". Look here," Professor Peng pointed out. The upper left side of the front of an old book said: "This bookmark is glued on it. The four characters 'Yongle Dadian' and the number of volumes below it are completely in line with the characteristics of Yongle Dadian. Although there is no carbon fourteen To test the age of this old book, but we basically confirmed that this box of ancient books is basically the "Yongle Dadian"!"

As he said that, Professor Peng couldn't help turning over a page carefully, pointing to the words on it and said: "Look at this word! It's written in two colors of vermilion and ink, and the pictures inside are all hand-drawn. Beautiful, beautiful, and magnificent! This is the regular script of Guange style commonly used in the Ming Dynasty. It is exquisite and exquisite, and can be regarded as the work of calligraphy masters! I have seen so many "Yongle Dadian" come back in this lifetime, to be honest , I really feel it's worth it!"

In the monitoring room, Lin Dong also opened his mouth wide. He didn't even think that the bidding for the quota that he organized could attract such precious classics as national treasures like "Yongle Dadian"!

Lin Dong was just surprised, and immediately said to He Dongcheng and Manager Zhang through the microphone: "Announce the result: If this Tang Sibato is willing to exchange, he will get a quota!"

He Dongcheng heard Lin Dong's words, and immediately said to Tang Sibato who was next to him: "Mr. Tang Sibato, are you willing to exchange this box of books for a place to land on the moon?"

Don Sibato was not stupid. He knew clearly from the expressions and actions of the few people just now that the box of old books he brought was very valuable.

However, he doesn't think it makes any difference to him. As long as there are quotas, what is the book?After all, it is a Chinese cultural relic!

"I'll offer you $500 million for this box of books!"

Suddenly, a voice interrupted the decision Don Sparto was about to make.

$500?
He Dongcheng turned his head to look at this malicious interrupter - this is a tall white man!

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