Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau
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The Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau (Traditional Chinese: 冊府元龜; pinyin: Cèfǔ Yuánguī) was the largest encyclopedia ever compiled by the Song Dynasty. It was originally named Narrative of Monarchs and Officials in the Past Dynasties but was later renamed to Yuangui, meaning the oracle tortoise shells, and Cefu, the imperial's storehouse of literature. The work started from 1005 and finished in 1013 by Wang Qinruo and a numerous of scholars. It was among one of the four books that was divided up in to 1,000 volumes, but was almost twice as large as the Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era and was ranked second in the Siku Quanshu collections. It consisted of about 9.4 millions words, which included the political essays, autobiography of rulers and subjects, memorialise and decrees.
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- Cefu Yuangui — Great Chinese Encyclopedia.
- Cefu yuangui "The Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau" — Chinaknowledge.de.
