What does the ancient Siku Quanshu mean?

Does anyone not know Siku Quanshu? No It is the largest series of books organized by the ancient emperors of China. A series of books is a multi-volume book that combines individual books according to their contents. Most of them boast about the cultural prosperity of North Korea. There are many books, and thousands of them are collected in one volume. It provides researchers with a lot of written materials, and they can avoid the hard work of searching everywhere. By including some "unknown" short books in the series, we can finally avoid losing our aesthetic feeling and being ignored. This avoids the loss of books in vain, and the idea of compiling series based on tree names seems to be very good.

Talking about numbers

It will take fifteen years to read the figures in Sikuquanshu. Use more than 4,000 people; Collect 503 kinds of books and thousands of them. There are 79,337 books. 36,304 copies. The total number of words is more than 997 million. This book * * * 2.3 million pages, together, is enough to circle the equator of the earth. Collected the main works before the end of18th century.

Human and material resources

It took more than ten years to compile Sikuquanshu, and the Qing government was able to concentrate huge manpower and material resources during the Qianlong period because of social stability and wealth of the country. At that time, the government's fiscal revenue was more than 30 million yuan a year, and the national treasury reserve was often 70 million yuan to 80 million yuan. Ganlong is brilliant and ambitious. He boasted that he used to fight in Xinjiang, Southwest China and other places with "high martial arts" and proudly called himself "the perfect old man".

Fall behind others

Now martial arts is the best in the world, and sandwiches can't fall behind others. Farther away, there is the Yongle Grand Ceremony of the Ming Dynasty and the integration of ancient and modern books of Grandpa Kangxi. He has ambition and economic strength, why didn't he make a big contribution? Can attract people and trap people; You can also wash yourself white, and your martial arts are very good, and your accomplishment is beyond your predecessors. It's really "kill three birds with one stone" to praise and criticize remarks by appointing officials, standardize people's words and deeds and stabilize the throne. On the fourth day of the first month in the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong officially sent a letter to search for books, and the compilation of Sikuquanshu began. For searching books, Emperor Qianlong also issued standards. He declared that among the books circulated through the ages, those related to the interpretation of sex science and governance and those related to the world should be given priority. As for giving full play to the words of passing notes, commenting on laws, participating in nine streams and a hundred schools of thought, it is beneficial to practice and we should also seek reference in the future. Celebrities from past dynasties to scholars in the Qing Dynasty have collections, and famous scholars who have devoted themselves to Confucian classics, history and literature and art in modern times, such as Gu, Chen Zufan, Ren and others, also have collections. You should also write your own articles and search together. As for useless genealogy, letters, barriers, longevity words, poems, imperial examinations, etc. , they are not in the search. Emperor Qianlong also stipulated that the governor should pay a certain fee if the book was in the shop after reading the suicide note. If it is a family letter, the government should frame and print it. If it has not been published before, only the manuscript is left, then the government should make a copy and return the original. Governments at all levels should deal with it seriously and should not take this opportunity to disturb the people. Because there are too many books, officials at all levels should first list all the books in the catalogue, indicate who wrote them and what the gist of the books is, and then simply state them and report them to their superiors. Wait until the collection is completed, and then let the courtiers check, select the books that can be selected, and report them to the emperor for final decision. The minister of military affairs immediately formulated the establishment method and personnel team. Emperor Qianlong issued a letter to collect and compile books in the future, which can be named Sikuquanshu.

Subsequently, the Siku Quanshu Museum was formally established in imperial academy. President, chief editor, deputy chief editor, proofreader, etc. More than 300 people were appointed by those who participated in the compilation, and they worked together in turn. An unprecedented compilation work officially began. On March 28th, the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong, the Emperor Qianlong issued an imperial edict, and within half a year, the provincial governors should complete the search of folk books without delay. Gan Long specifically mentioned that Jiangsu and Zhejiang are places where people gather together, and there are many people who have collected books for generations, so we should try our best to find them. In particular, he sent letters to AG, governor of Liangjiang, Zazai, governor of Jiangsu and Sanbao, governor of Zhejiang, ordering them to search vigorously. In particular, the famous bibliophiles in the south of the Yangtze River are mentioned, namely, the Xus Handed Down Building in Kunshan, the Qianshu Drum Tower in Changshu, the Xiangs Teana Pavilion in Jiaxing, the Zhus Exposure Pavilion, the Zhaos Xiaoshan Pavilion in Hangzhou and the Fans Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo. Gan Long's letter even mentioned booksellers in Suzhou and merchant ships in Huzhou. It can be seen that Gan Long knows something about books and book fairs in the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, because Emperor Qianlong read widely, he often named ministers to search for a certain version of a book for him, and even named officials to copy a book collected by a family. If several major editions of books contributed by a bibliophile are missing, he can also find them quickly. This makes those book collectors afraid to collect books easily. Therefore, the famous collections in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are basically included in Sikuquanshu.