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Progress of the Yongle Encyclopedia compilation

Type Event Region China Time 1415

In Ming Yongle 13 (1415), though the official copy of Yongle Dadian was complete and stored at Nanjing's Wenyuan Pavilion, the court continued collat…

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  1. 1415Wenyuan Pavilion, Nanjing · JiangsuThe official copy of Yongle Dadian (22,877 juan) was stored at Wenyuan Pavilion; Hanlin scholars and history compilers routinely used it to recover lost texts, collate, and cite scattered Song and Yuan documents, making it the core reference work of court textual work.
  2. 1415Capital (Nanjing) · JiangsuThe third revision of the Veritable Records of Ming Taizu, begun in Yongle 9, was still ongoing this year; chief compilers Hu Guang, Hu Yan, Huang Huai, Yang Rong and others used documents gathered in Yongle Dadian as a key reference, forming a complementary large-scale history-compilation system with Dadian.
  3. 1415Nanjing–Beijing · North ChinaWith the capital relocation to Beijing approaching, the court began planning the future transfer of Wenyuan Pavilion's library and the official copy of Yongle Dadian, and continued sending people to collect books from all quarters to fill textual gaps, in preparation for the northward transport of texts in Yongle 19.

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