Presided over the compilation of Yongle Dadian is the achievement of Jie Jin's life. As early as the beginning of entering Korea, Jie Jin suggested to Zhu Yuanzhang to compile a large book. Jie Jin was born in Jishui County, Ji 'an District, Jiangxi Province (now Jishui County, Ji 'an City, Jiangxi Province), and his ancestral home is Daizhou County, Taiyuan District, Shanxi Province (now Daixian County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province). Writer and cabinet record in the early Ming Dynasty.
Yao became the top editor of Yongle Dadian after his failure in compiling books, which was his greatest contribution in the cultural history of China. Yao Xiaoguang, a young man named Tian Nuo, is called Tao Yan in Buddhism, with the word "Tao" and "",which are collectively called "Duan Laotou, Escape". Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) people. Politicians, Buddhists and Writers in Ming Dynasty.
Introduction to Yongle ceremony
Yongle Dadian is a collection of ancient China classics compiled by Yao and others at the behest of Ming Taizu during Yongle period of Ming Dynasty. It was originally named "literary masterpiece", and later Ming Chengzu personally wrote the preface and named it "Yongle Grand Ceremony". The book has 22,877 volumes (60 volumes in the catalogue, 22,937 volumes in * * *), 1 1095 volumes, about 370 million words, bringing together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books.
The contents of Yongle Dadian include classics, history, books and collections, involving astronomical geography, Yin and Yang medicine, divination, interpretation of Tibetan Taoist scriptures, drama, crafts and agriculture, covering thousands of years of intellectual wealth of the Chinese nation. Encyclopedia Britannica called China's Ming Dynasty book Yongle Dadian "the largest encyclopedia in world history". It has become an important symbol of China culture.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xie Jin