永樂大典

「The Yongle Canon」, compiled by 2,000 scholars and completed in 1408, A.D., was the world's earliest and biggest encyclopaedia, which contains 22937 volumes bound into 11095 books with a total of 370 million Chinese characters. 中國的《永樂大典》是世界上最早最大的百科全書。 它成書於1408年，共有22,937卷，11,095冊 37,000萬字，由2,000名學者編寫。