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The Yongle Encyclopedia (; literally The Great Canon or Vast Documents of the Yongle Era ) was a Chinese compilation of information commissioned by the Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle in 1403 and completed by 1408.
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The Chinese emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty oversaw the compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia, one of the largest encyclopedias in history, which was completed in 1408 and comprised over 370 million Chinese characters in 11, 000 handwritten volumes, of which only about 400 remain today.
* Yongle Encyclopedia — over 22, 000 volumes
* In China, the Siku Quanshu is completed, the largest literary compilation in China's history ( surpassing the Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th century ).
** commissions the Yongle Encyclopedia, one of the world's earliest and largest known general encyclopedias.
* In China, written work begins on the Siku Quanshu, the largest literary compilation of books in China's history ( surpassing the Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th Century ).
* The Yongle Encyclopedia is completed.
During his reign the monumental Yongle Encyclopedia was completed.
The book, named the Yongle Encyclopedia, is still considered one of the most marvelous human achievements in history, despite it being gradually lost by time.
Although these Song Dynasty Chinese encyclopedias featured millions of written Chinese characters each, their aggregate size paled in comparison to the later Yongle Encyclopedia ( 1408 ) of the Ming Dynasty, which contained a total of 50 million Chinese characters.
* Yongle Encyclopedia ( traditional Chinese: 永樂大典 ; simplified Chinese: 永乐大典 ; pinyin: Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn ; literally “ The Great Canon Vast Documents of the Yongle Era ”).
* 1403 – The Yongle Encyclopedia is commissioned in China.
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Today, the most complete of the surviving late Ming Dynasty copies of the Yongle Encyclopedia are kept at the National Library of China in Beijing.
The National Library of China also holds the most copies, a total of 221 books of the Yongle Encyclopedia.
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Chinese leishu (; " reference works arranged by categories ; encyclopedias "), such as the Yongle Encyclopedia, were also semantically arranged.
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However, most of these documents were lost by the time of the Qing Dynasty except for the synopsis and a relatively small portion preserved as part of the imperial Yongle Encyclopedia.
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In 1403, the Ming Yongle Emperor relocated the capital to Beiping, which was subsequently renamed Beijing ( literally, " Northern capital ").
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During the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle bestowed the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma, the first of the three Princes of Dharma, upon the Black-Hat Karmapa.
Great lengths were taken by Yongle to eradicate Mongolian culture from China.
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It was during the Yongle era that Zheng He, with the rank of Chief Envoy ( 正使, zhèng shǐ ) carried out the first of his six overseas missions.
It has also been claimed, on the basis of later texts, that the voyages also presented an opportunity to seek out Zhu Yunwen ( the previous emperor whom the Yongle emperor had usurped and who was rumored to have fled into exile ) – possibly the " largest scale manhunt on water in the history of China ".
* The Grand Canal of China is reinstated by this year after it had fallen out of use ; restoration began in 1411, and was a response by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to improve the grain shipment system of tribute traveling from south to north towards his new capital at Beijing.
* The Tibetan lama Je Tsongkhapa of the Gelug Buddhist sect declined the offer of the Yongle Emperor of China to appear in the capital at Nanjing, although he sent his disciple Chosrje Shākya Yeshes, who was given the title " State Teacher ".
Yongle demoted Nanjing to a secondary capital and in 1403 announced the new capital of China was to be at his power base in Beijing.
The physical crown displayed by the Karmapas was offered to the fifth Karmapa by the Chinese Yongle Emperor as a material representation of the spiritual one.
The temple complex was constructed from 1406 to 1420 during the reign of the Yongle Emperor, who was also responsible for the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
The Yongle Emperor ( Traditional Chinese: 永樂帝 ; Simplified Chinese: 永乐帝 ; pinyin: Yǒnglèdì ; Wade-Giles: Yung-lo Emperor ; ) ( 2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424 ), born Zhu Di ( 朱棣 ), was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.
Although his father Zhu Yuanzhang was reluctant to do so when he was emperor, Yongle upheld the civil service examinations for drafting educated government officials instead of using simple recommendation and appointment.
The Yongle Emperor was born Zhu Di on 2 May 1360, the fourth son of the new leader of the central Red Turbans, Zhu Yuanzhang, who would later rise to become the Hongwu Emperor, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
On 17 July 1402, after a brief visit to his father's tomb, Zhu Di was crowned Emperor Yongle at the age of 42.
Yongle was said to be an " ardent Buddhist " by Ernst Faber.
When it was time for him to choose an heir, Yongle very much wanted to choose his second son, Gaoxu.
It was a magistrate of Jining, Shandong who sent a memorandum to Yongle protesting the current method of grain shipment, a request that Yongle ultimately granted.
It was one of the world's earliest, and the then largest, encyclopaedia commissioned by Emperor Yongle of Ming Dynasty in 1403, completed about 1408.
While the Ming army was initially very effective, it lost its capacity for offensive operations after the death of the Yongle Emperor, and was defeated by the Mongols in 1449 during the Tumu Crisis.
Following a coup by Zhu Di ( later, the Yongle Emperor ), however, the capital was moved to Beijing, far to the north.
* In the Ming Dynasty, she was given as " Holy Mother of Heaven Above " in 1417 by the Yongle Emperor.
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