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The '''''Taiping Yulan''''', translated as the '''''Imperial Reader''''' or '''''Readings of the [[Emperor Taizong of Song|Taiping Era]]''''', is a massive |
The '''''Taiping Yulan''''', translated as the '''''Imperial Reader''''' or '''''Readings of the [[Emperor Taizong of Song|Taiping Era]]''''', is a massive Chinese ''[[leishu]]'' [[Chinese encyclopedia|encyclopedia]] compiled by a number of officers under [[Li Fang (Song dynasty)|Li Fang]] from 977 to 983. It was commissioned by the imperial court of the [[Song dynasty|Song]] [[list of Chinese dynasties|dynasty]] during the first [[Chinese era names|era]] of the reign of [[Emperor Taizong of Song|Emperor Taizong]]. It is divided into 1,000 volumes and 55 sections, which consisted of about 4.7 million [[Chinese characters]]. It included citations from about 2,579 different kinds of [[documents]] spanning from books, poetry, [[ode]]s, [[proverbs]], [[steles]] to miscellaneous works. After its completion, the [[Emperor Taizong of Song|Emperor Taizong]] is said to have finished reading it within a year, going through 3 volumes per day. It is considered one of the ''[[Four Great Books of Song]]''. |
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It is one of the sources used by [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] and [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] scholars to reconstruct the lost ''[[Record of the Seasons of Jingchu]]''.<ref>{{citation |last=Theobald |first=Ulrich |date=2010 |title=China Knowledge |url=http://www.chinaknowledge.de |contribution=Jing-Chu Suishi Ji |contribution-url=http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Science/jingchusuishiji.html |location=Tübingen }}.</ref> |
It is one of the sources used by [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] and [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] scholars to reconstruct the lost ''[[Record of the Seasons of Jingchu]]''.<ref>{{citation |last=Theobald |first=Ulrich |date=2010 |title=China Knowledge |url=http://www.chinaknowledge.de |contribution=Jing-Chu Suishi Ji |contribution-url=http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Science/jingchusuishiji.html |location=Tübingen }}.</ref> |
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===Bibliography=== |
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The Taiping Yulan, translated as the Imperial Reader or Readings of the Taiping Era, is a massive Chinese leishu encyclopedia compiled by a number of officers under Li Fang from 977 to 983. It was commissioned by the imperial court of the Song dynasty during the first era of the reign of Emperor Taizong. It is divided into 1,000 volumes and 55 sections, which consisted of about 4.7 million Chinese characters. It included citations from about 2,579 different kinds of documents spanning from books, poetry, odes, proverbs, steles to miscellaneous works. After its completion, the Emperor Taizong is said to have finished reading it within a year, going through 3 volumes per day. It is considered one of the Four Great Books of Song.
It is one of the sources used by Ming and Qing scholars to reconstruct the lost Record of the Seasons of Jingchu.[1]
References
Citations
- ^ Theobald, Ulrich (2010), "Jing-Chu Suishi Ji", China Knowledge, Tübingen
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Bibliography
- Kurz, Johannes L. (2003). Das Kompilationsprojekt Song Taizongs (reg. 976–997). Peter Lang. ISSN 0172-3375.
- Kurz, Johannes L. (2007). "The Compilation and Publication of the Taiping Yulan and the Cefu Yuangui". Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident. 1 (H–S): 39–76. doi:10.3406/oroc.2007.1069. in Florence Bretelle-Establet and Karine Chemla (eds.), Qu'est-ce qu'écrire une encyclopédie en Chine?. Extreme Orient-Extreme Occident Hors série (2007), 39–76.
- Endymion Wilkinson. Chinese History: A New Manual. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2012; ISBN 978-0-674-06715-8), pp. 651–652.
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