Sikuquanshu is a kind of book belonging to bibliography, which is a book catalogue arranged according to a certain system. Generally, the book title, the number of volumes, the author, the publishing house, and the edition will be recorded, and some will also have an executive summary, which is a recognized way of learning and research. Sikuquanshu is the largest series in the history of China personally organized by Emperor Qianlong. Started from 1772, and was compiled in ten years. The series is divided into four parts: classics, history, books and collections, hence the name Si Ku.

The Catalogue of Sikuquanshu, also known as the Catalogue Summary of Sikuquanshu, consists of 200 volumes and two volumes. Ji Yun edited Yan Yong in Qing Dynasty. From the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong (1772), the Qing dynasty spent about 10 years, concentrated a lot of manpower and material resources, and compiled a series called Sikuquanshu, which was one of the largest series in the ancient world.

At the time of compilation, the contents of books included in Sikuquanshu (called descriptive books) and books without income (called bibliographic books) were compiled respectively. The content of the book should not only discuss the main idea of each book and the source of the work, but also list the gains and losses of the book in the author column, as well as the logo of "addition and deletion of words and division of articles" After that, these abstracts are classified and compiled into cost books. This book contains 34,665,438+0 books and 79,309 volumes; There are 6793 bibliographies, 9355 1 volume. These books basically include the important works of ancient China before Qianlong (especially the books before Yuan Dynasty are more complete).

This 10254 abstract is arranged in four categories: essence, substance, word and set, and each category is divided into several subclasses.

Some more complex subclasses are subdivided into subheads. The book is divided into 44 sub-categories and 67 sub-titles. Each category and subcategory are in order, and there are comments after the subheadings, which briefly explain the origin of such books and why they are classified into this category. Photocopys of Zhonghua Book Company 1965, 198 1 year, with a summary of books destroyed in Sri Lanka (9 articles), a summary of books not collected in Sri Lanka (edited by Ruan Yuan in Qing Dynasty, 5 volumes, 174 articles) and a collation of the catalogue of Sri Lanka.

At the back of the book, there is an index of the title and author's name of the general catalogue of Si Ku Quan Shu and an index prefix and stroke retrieval arranged by four corners for easy reference. However, it should be noted that when using this book, we should refer to two books: An Analysis of the Summary of Si Ku (Yu Jiaxi, 24 volumes, Zhonghua Book Company 1980 edition) and Supplement to the Summary of Si Ku (Hu Yuyan, 60 volumes, supplement 1 volume, Zhonghua Book Company/kloc-). Because the former researches nearly 500 kinds of ancient books, while the latter researches more than 2,300 kinds of ancient books.