《永乐大典》是一部类书,它编纂于明朝永乐年间,历时六年(1403～1408年)编修完成。类书,就是将一类或多类文献资料辑录出来,按照一定的方法,如类、韵、字等进行编排,以方便检索和查询的工具书,类似西方的百科全书。《永乐大典》保存了14世纪以前中国历史地理、文学艺术、哲学宗教和其他百 “Paradise” is a book, compiled in the Ming Dynasty Yongle period, which lasted six years (1403 ~ 1408) edited. Class books, that is, one or more types of documents compiled, in accordance with certain methods, such as class, rhyme, words, etc., to facilitate the retrieval and query tool books, similar to the Western encyclopedia. “Yongle ceremony” preserved before the 14th century Chinese history and geography, literature and art, philosophy and religion and other hundred