The originator of China's ancient books should be Wei's Huang Lan. According to "The Reflection of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi Wendi", Wei Wendi Cao Pishi "made Confucianism write more than a thousand classics". This book has been lost for a long time, although there are some lost copies in later generations, but the number is small, it is difficult to get a glimpse of its whole picture. During the Six Dynasties, there were also many books, such as Xiuwen Temple written by Wu Ping, the late master of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Many volumes were lost, and they were taken by books in the Tang and Song Dynasties and have been lost so far. Another example is the Catalogue of the Same Surnames in Qi and Liang Dynasties, and Brief Introduction to the Liang Dynasty.

There are three official books in the Tang Dynasty, namely Literature and Art written by Ou Yangxun and others, Wenguan written by Xu and Xujian written by beginners. There are two privately written works: Yu Shinan's Bei Tang Shuchao and Bai Juyi's Six Chapters of the White Cave.

Collection of Literature and Art, edited by Tang Gaozu, 100. This book is classified and extracted from more than 400 kinds of ancient books, including 48 kinds of books on chronology, politics and industry, which are rich in content with facts before and poems after. The ancient classics quoted in it are scattered today, which has preserved many precious materials for us.

Wenguan Linz, edited by Tang Gaozong. 1000 volume. Classify and sort out all kinds of poems from pre-Qin to Tang Dynasty. The original book was lost in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are dozens of books circulating in Japan, most of which have been reintroduced to China. Each remnant volume includes Lost Series, Crescent Hall Series II, Ancient Meaning Series and Shiyuan Series.

Bei Tang Shu Chao was edited by Yu Shinan when he was the minister of Sui Dynasty in the early Tang Dynasty. Volume 160. The book extracts 852 famous sayings from various books at that time, which can be used for writing at that time.

The compilation scale of quasi-books in Song Dynasty was unprecedented, and many large-scale quasi-books were produced. More famous are:

Taiping Yu Lan, Volume 1000. In the second year of Song Taiping Xingguo (977), Liu Yun and others were ordered to edit it, which lasted for eight years. First named "Taiping General Category", Taizong made people read three volumes every day. "There are thousands of volumes in this book, and I want to read it all year round", so I changed my name. Also known as "Imperial View". There are 55 books, and each book is divided into several categories, some of which have subtitles, and the size category is about 5474. Yu Lan cited more than 690 kinds of ancient books/kloc-0. It can be seen that it is not only an important comprehensive reference book, but also one of the most abundant books to preserve ancient lost books.

Taiping Guangji, with 500 volumes, 10, is a book based on unofficial history's novels from Han Dynasty to early Song Dynasty and other essays mainly by novelists. Liu Yun, Hu Meng, Li Mu, Xu Xuan, Zhao Neiji, Wang Kezhen, Bai Song, Lu Wenzhong, etc. 12 were ordered by Song Taizong. It started in the second year of Taiping Xingguo (977) and was completed the following year.

Yuan Gui of Bookstore, Volume 1000. Song Zhenzong ordered Wang Qinruo, Yang Yi and so on. It started in the second year of Jingdezhen (1005), lasted for eight years, and was completed in the sixth year of Taizhong Xiangfu, namely 10 13. It is divided into 3 1 door and 1 104 door. The deeds of past dynasties, from ancient times to five dynasties, are arranged in order. This collection is mainly based on historical books, with occasional references and quotations, which is of great value to the collation of historical books before the Song Dynasty.

A set of books called "Mountain Hall Examination", volume 2 12. The Southern Song Dynasty chapter was written by a fool. * * * is divided into 46 subjects, and hundreds of books cited are accompanied by the judgment of the book editor.

Yuhai, 200 volumes. Wang Yinglin in the Southern Song Dynasty had private creations. 2 1 branch of astronomy, geography, official administration and diet. This book mostly uses the annals of national history and the almanac for historical events in the Song Dynasty, which is of high historical value. At the end of the volume, there are four volumes of A Guide to Ci Poetry, and there are 13 kinds of textual research and poetic geography textual research.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were countless official books and private books. Here are only two representative books-Yongle Dadian and Integration of Ancient and Modern Books.

Yongle Dadian, 22,937 volumes, 1 1095 volumes, with a word count of about 370 million. In the first year of Yongle (A.D. 1403), Jie Jin, the imperial edict minister, compiled the document Dacheng, which was completed the following year. Yongle was rebuilt in three years, and Yongle was named Yongle Grand Ceremony in six years. There are more than 8,000 kinds of books in this book, and the relevant materials are rearranged according to the rhyme of Hongwu. Its style is "using rhyme to unify words and using words to relate things", that is, taking the rhyme of Hongwu as the key link and dividing words according to rhyme. There are detailed phonological and explanatory notes under each word, and various fonts are recorded. Under this word, articles about human events, system names, mountains and rivers, astronomy and geography, poems and songs, and commands are all included with this word. Yongle Dadian is voluminous and rich in content, and many ancient books have been preserved. Unfortunately, the original was destroyed in the late Ming Dynasty. When Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, the copies were looted. Now there are only over 700 volumes left.

Integration of ancient and modern books. Chen Menglei and others in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty. The book was written in the forty-five years of Kangxi, and it was named Integration of Ancient and Modern Books. During the Yongzheng period, I ordered Jiang Tingxi and others to add, delete and polish. The original book is divided into six parts and 34 records. The revised book was changed to 32 volumes, and there are still 6 109 volumes, with * * * ten thousand volumes. The style of the book is based on six parts (calendar, geography, ethics, natural history, science and economics), and each part is divided into 32 yards. There are more than 6000 branches under this code. The subordinates also listed the details, profiles, charts, biographies, art, sentences, chronicles, miscellaneous notes, foreign articles and so on. All quoted books and materials should indicate the source. As Yongzheng praised, The Integration of Ancient and Modern Books is voluminous: "It runs through ancient and modern times, integrates classics, astronomy and geography, and has pictures. Everything from mountains and rivers to vegetation is made, and the secret method of Haixi is not prepared. It is a grand view of ancient books. " Rare in the history of world culture.