Like * * *, I think we all agree that the handwritten Chinese text is about 6,543,800 pages, most of which need to be collected from all parts of China in the 654.38+04 century, which may be more impressive from the project scope. Isn't it? It is estimated that the final edition of this encyclopedia weighs about 40 tons and covers an area of about 1400 cubic feet, with 22,937 chapters, 1 1095 volumes and 9 17480 pages. The encyclopedia also includes thousands of perfect hand-drawn illustrations. The most impressive thing is that it used more than 370 million Chinese characters from beginning to end; All these words were written by about 2000 scholars in a short period of 17 months, and the whole project including data collection took only five years from 1403 to 1408.
Yongle Encyclopedia itself is Emperor Yongle. He wants to compile a book containing all the valuable knowledge about China. There are about 8,000 China documents, covering art, astronomy, drama, geology, history, literature, medicine, science, religion, engineering, agriculture, philosophy and so on. Because of the huge scale of this work,
This book was supposed to be printed a lot, but it was not easy to copy because of its large space. So there are only three copies of 1408, and the other two. 1557, under the supervision of Emperor Jiajing, the second copy was copied, and then another copy was copied. Soon after, when two books were almost lost in the fire of the Forbidden City, this book was produced.
Now only 400 volumes 1 1095 remain. Although, no one knows what happened to the original book, some people hope that it can be discovered skillfully one day, because the first book seems to have disappeared together. The remaining two books gradually disappeared, and most of the last known books were destroyed by fire during the boxer movement in 1900. The largest existing encyclopedia is kept in the National Library of China, with a total volume of 22 1. The other is the Library of Congress, with 4 1 volume. Britain has 5 1 volume.
Other facts:
It is the third longest encyclopedia in history, second only to * * and Yongle Encyclopedia, and it is a French encyclopedia. This book originally consists of 35 volumes of 7 1 volume, 8 18 articles and 3 129 illustrations. Later, it was expanded by 1000 workers and 2250 writers to 166. Famous contributors to this encyclopedia include Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu. The greatest contributor is Luis de Jacotte, who wrote 17266 articles from 1759 to 1765. Some people think that he is paid by the piece, not by the hour. Yongle Encyclopedia is 12 times larger than this famous French Encyclopedia. The name "Yongle" was named after the Ming emperor, whose reign was 1402- 1424. Emperor Yongle was born in 1360 and eventually became the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China. He is regarded by most scholars as the greatest emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Besides, he is often regarded as one of the greatest emperors who ruled China. "Yongle" means "eternal happiness". Among his many achievements, Emperor Yongle built the Forbidden City in Beijing and restored and reopened the Grand Canal in China, thus providing Beijing with stable food and other commodities. He commissioned several historic voyages; He tolerates all religions and encourages people to do so, regardless of their own personal beliefs (although this does not extend to Mongols, they are despised by him in almost every aspect, including prohibiting anyone from imitating Mongols in any way through laws; One of his many goals is to eradicate any trace of Mongols from China. According to National Geographic (May, 2004), some ships used in sea navigation sponsored by Yongle Grand Ceremony are among the largest sailboats in the world history. The fate of the original Yongle ceremony is unknown. One of the more popular and attractive sayings is in the tomb of Emperor Jiajing, because he disappeared after his death. Emperor Jiajing ruled in 1507- 1523 and was the 1 1 emperor of the Ming Dynasty. If this is true, once the ancient tomb is found, the complete Yongle Grand Ceremony should be found, which will undoubtedly make it one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in world history. It's a bit like someone tripping over a large number of documents lost in the library of Alexandria. For example, The Book of Bellows, a complete trilogy of world history written in 290, disappeared when the library of Alexandria was destroyed in BC. The Alexandria Library used to have more than 700,000 books, which is almost every book or copy of every book that the staff of Alexandria Library can find in the known world. The disappearance of this library has caused mankind to go back from hundreds of thousands of years to two thousand years in some research fields. In many cases, we have to rediscover the records we once knew, which are kept in the library of Alexandria. Therefore, the loss of this library can be said to be one of the greatest tragedies in human history and one of the most important occasions to change the historical process. Another ridiculously long printed edition includes the Spanish encyclopedia Univeral Ilustada Europeo America, with a total of 105000 pages. The longest novel in history is 40-volume novel To Tanigawa's Elegant Show. If these works look boring when written by hand, consider that the Hittites left us 15000 pieces of pottery. Some of the earliest "books" are these clay tablets By today's standards, the alphabet above is sometimes very interesting. For example, Sumerians had an alphabet of triangular symbols. The combination of these symbols points up, down, left or right to form a specific letter. (Wow, that must be difficult to read) In order to make these clay tablets, the traditional method is to press the symbols in the mud and then burn them, which can ensure that they can last for a long time, although it is difficult to carry around. Extended reference: Yongle Yongle Encyclopedia Digital Volume World Digital Library: the largest and earliest Yongle Encyclopedia * * * How many pages of Yongle Emperor Yongle Encyclopedia is the longest book ever? The Encyclopedia written by Denis Diderot, Emperor Jiajing, is an ancient fragment. Including the works of Sancho Niatto, Berosous, Abidnus, Mai gaston and Manetho; William pickering, London 1828. Reprinted by fax from Barrantra, Ontario, Canada.