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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yongle Encyclopedia was a Chinese compilation commissioned by the Chinese Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle in 1403 and completed by 1408. It was then the world's largest known general encyclopedia and one of the earliest.Two thousand scholars worked on the project under the direction of the Yongle Emperor (reigned 1402 1424), incorporating eight thousand texts from ancient times up to the early Ming Dynasty. They covered an array of subjects, including agriculture, art, astronomy, drama, geology, history, li...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yongle Encyclopedia was a Chinese compilation commissioned by the Chinese Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle in 1403 and completed by 1408. It was then the world's largest known general encyclopedia and one of the earliest.Two thousand scholars worked on the project under the direction of the Yongle Emperor (reigned 1402 1424), incorporating eight thousand texts from ancient times up to the early Ming Dynasty. They covered an array of subjects, including agriculture, art, astronomy, drama, geology, history, literature, medicine, natural sciences, religion, and technology, as well as descriptions of unusual natural events. The encyclopedia, which was completed in 1408 at Nanjing Guozijian , comprised 22,877 or 22,937 manuscript rolls, or chapters, in 11,095 volumes occupying roughly 40 cubic metres (1400 ft³) and using 50 million Chinese characters. It was designed to include all that had ever been written on the Confucian canon, history, philosophy and the arts and sciences.