The Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, also known as the
Qinding Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, was a large series of
books compiled during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Under
the leadership of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, it was
compiled by more than 360 high-ranking officials and scholars,
including Ji Yun, and more than 3800 people copied it, taking thirteen
years to compile. Divided into four parts: Jing, Shi, Zi, and Ji,
hence the name "Si Ku". According to the Wenjin Pavilion
collection, a total of 3462 books are included, totaling 79338 volumes.
The complete set of Siku Quanshu refers to four parts: Jing, Shi, Zi,
and Ji, which also include works such as The Analects, Great Learning,
Mencius, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Book of Changes, The Book of
Rites, The Book of Songs, The Classic of Filial Piety, The Book of
Documents, Spring and Autumn Annals, The Records of the Grand
Historian, and others.
The Classic is the first and most important part of the Complete
Library of the Four Treasuries. The Ministry of Classics collects
ancient Chinese classic works, including Confucian classics, Taoist
classics, Buddhist classics, etc. The most important works among them
are the Four Books and Five Classics, which include the Great
Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Analects, Mencius, the Book of
Songs, the Book of Documents, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes,
and the Spring and Autumn Annals. These classic works are the core of
ancient Chinese culture and have a profound impact on future
generations.I think this is the most important part of this book.
The Complete Library of Four Branches preserves a large number of
documents from various dynasties in China. Many of the original texts
are precious and precious, such as Song and Yuan Dynasty engraved or
old copied versions; There are still many books that have been lost
for a long time, rediscovered during book revision; There are also
some lost books compiled from ancient books, such as 385 books
compiled from the Yongle Encyclopedia. The compilation of the Complete
Library of the Four Treasuries had a huge impact on the academic
community in terms of methods for organizing ancient books, as well as
in areas such as collection, collation, and cataloging. The Complete
Library of Four Treasuries preserves many nearly lost Chinese classics
throughout history, and corrects errors and omissions in the classics.
But during the book revision period, some books were also destroyed
and banned.
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