Zhang Siwei and his hometown in this sitting a moment to go back, although the Hanlin Academy is relatively free, drink tea to see the Di Di time passed, but a long time away from the post or not.
After the two went and several people came to visit, after all, Zhu Pingan’s official position there, from the sixth grade it, in this large Hanlin Academy is only nine people grade than Zhu Pingan high, that is, the palm of the Academy of Bachelor, serving reading Bachelor, serving lectures Bachelor as well as the sixth grade of the service reading, serving lectures, the other editors, review and so on are lower than Zhu Pingan’s grade.
These people visited and respected, but the sympathy or gloating in their eyes was still unavoidable. These people are also the same as Zhang Bo, for the Hanlin Academy, for Zhu Pingan is responsible for this “Hanlin Academy of the most” of the errand is also well known.
However, Zhu Pingan has been very calm, let them some disappointment, they also want to see Zhu Pingan sad expression it.
After these people left, Zhu Pingan brewed himself another pot of tea, got up and once again went to the first, second and third floors of the Book Pavilion to take a look around each floor. Because there were servants in charge of cleaning the Book Depository, the floor and the bookcases were all very clean, but the books were placed in a somewhat chaotic manner.
In the third floor Zhu Pingan saw the later generations can not see the “Yongle Grand Dictionary”, the later generations of the “Yongle Grand Dictionary” after the baptism of history and war, to the modern era, only more than seven hundred volumes remain. However, on the third floor, there was a whole set of Yongle Canon, 22,937 volumes, divided into 10,095 books, occupying six rooms on the third floor.
Zhu Pingan remembers reading some novels in the starting point, what carry a library with you, I have a set of encyclopaedia in my head and other gold finger novels, and now when he saw this set of Yongle Dictionary, Zhu Pingan felt as if he had found a treasure, which is the world’s most complete and largest encyclopaedia ah, the history and geography of China before the Ming Dynasty’s Yongle, literature and art, philosophy and religion and other encyclopaedic literature are all in the set of books. It is the most complete and largest encyclopaedia in the world. This set of books could almost be said to be a treasure ship full of Chinese civilisation and culture for a thousand years, and now this ship was right in front of his eyes.
Just now, Zhang Bo and the others all thought that this was the worst errand without one in the Hanlin Academy, but seeing seeing this entire floor of books and canons, especially this Yongle Dictionary. However, Zhu Pingan felt that this was the best errand in the Hanlin Academy.
With modern library sorting is different, Yongle Dictionary is not a combination of hanyu pinyin and arabic numerals, but with the “Hongwu Zhengyun” as the basis for sorting, because at that time there is no pinyin this said. According to the Hongwu Zhengyun (洪武正韵), it is easy to find the way from the 10,000 books. You can easily retrieve the books you need from the 10,000 volumes of the Yongle Dictionary.
Zhu Pingan took the first volume of the Yongle Dictionary from the first bookcase and looked at it carefully, and found that this set was just a copy, and that the outermost part of the book was a layer of yellow silk, under which was a thick and delicate rice paper cover. On the yellow silk was a rectangular bookmark, on which was written “Yongle Daxian”. Underneath are two small lines stating the number of volumes in the book.
After entering his hand, Zhu Pingan found that there was actually dust on the book, so it was evident that this book, or rather this set of Yongle Dictionary, should have not been looked over for quite some time.
This Yongle Dictionary is about the first volume, Zhu Pingan opened it and found out that this is about the background of the compilation of the Yongle Dictionary, in which the first page is an imperial edict of the Yongle Emperor:
“The ancient and modern things in the world are scattered and recorded in various canonical books, which are voluminous and not easy to retrieve. I would like to collect the things contained in the books extensively, and use rhymes to unify them, so that they can be retrieved. In this way, retrieving things will be as easy as picking up things in a bag. …… I hope that you follow my meaning, since the written word of the successive generations of the scriptures, history, son of the hundred books, and astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medicine and arithmetic, monasticism, skills of the information are collected, in a book, do not be too voluminous ……”
Alas!
After reading the edict, Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but sigh, it was said that this set of Yongle Dictionary took several years during the Yongle years, with a total of more than 20,000 courtiers paperwork Confucianism bigwigs participating in the compilation. It is said that after completion, more than one hundred calligraphers took six years to copy a set of copies!
The Yongle Dictionary, which took so much effort, turned out to be dusty! The Yongle Dictionary. A forgotten treasure.
Putting the volume back in its original place, Zhu Pingan walked along the aisle for several more rows, chose a bookshelf and once again chose a volume and opened it.
This was a volume of the military genre. The page that Zhu Pingan opened was with an interlude, the drawing was of a crossbow style, one could tell that it was drawn using a brush, but the form was realistic and very delicate, the arrows on the crossbow were almost broken out of the scroll.
Under curiosity. Zhu Pingan turned a few pages forward, and found that the name of the scroll was: Divine Arm Bow!
“Divine Arm Bow, a real crossbow as well. The body is made of mulberry, the end of sandalwood is the bow, iron is the chamber, steel is the mechanism, hemp rope is tied to the zipper, and silk is the string. Bow body length of three feet three, string length of two feet five, arrow hair and far up to more than three hundred and forty paces, bow into can stand on the ground, pull the trigger, can penetrate 300 paces of iron armour ……”
This volume will be the god arm bow description is extremely detailed, from the selection of materials to the production to the use to the formation description is extremely detailed, the volume of illustrations will be the god arm bow of each subtle structure are separated from the separate drawing out, each subtle nuances are drawn extremely detailed, Zhu Pingan can be sure that through the volume of this volume of books, will be able to replicate the standard god arm bow out.
What a good book! Extremely practical.
After Zhu Pingan finished reading this volume of Divine Arm Bow, he put the volume back in its original position and then walked a few rows to choose a book to open.
This book is geography, illustrations are extremely rich, mountains, rivers, cities and other drawings are very detailed, of course, with the current map is not comparable, in the eyes of Zhu Pingan, this book describing the geography of Shandong there are a lot of errors, but can not ask too much, on the whole it is still very standard.
If the emperor read the whole set of geography, sitting in his study, he could put his own mountains and rivers into his mind.
If it wasn’t for the fact that lunch time had arrived and Zhang Siwei was downstairs calling himself to come downstairs and go out to eat together, Zhu Pingan would have definitely immersed himself in the Yongle Canon and wasted his sleep.
“For lunch let’s both go and find Fansheng to eat together, I guess we won’t have the chance to do so in the evening, their Da Lisi will also be receiving their newly promoted Guanzheng Jinshi.” Zhang Siwei pulled Zhu Pingan out the door to find Wang Shizhen after he went downstairs.
“Are you saying that at night our Hanlin Academy will also give us a reception?” Zhu Pingan frowned and asked, how come there was going to be another wine banquet, he had drunk a lot of wine these days, but he didn’t want to drink any more.
“Yes, this is all customary ah. But saying that it’s a reception for us, in fact, when the time comes, it’s all us paying for it ……” Zhang Siwei said and skimmed his mouth.
Err.
That’s not the point alright.
Eyelids a little jumping, how always feel the dinner party to have a feeling of something, Zhu Pingan rubbed his eyes along with Zhang Siwei out of the Hanlin Academy all the way to the Da Lisi Yamen and go.
