Yongle Night Watchman

"Yongle Dadian", this unparalleled treasure that embodies five thousand years of Chinese wisdom, is a civilization monument created with 370 million words in the Yongle era. It integrates classics and history, astronomy, geography, and medical divination skills. It can be called the crystallization of the wisdom of Eastern civilization. She is divided into 11,095 volumes (22,877 volumes of text + 60 volumes of catalog)). It was born at a time when imperial power demonstrated civilized rule, but it has experienced catastrophes over the past six hundred years: the original copy in the Ming Dynasty disappeared mysteriously, the copy in the Qing Dynasty was stolen by prisoners and burned in wars, and was looted and scattered by foreign powers during the Gengzi national crisis. It was reduced from a secret collection in the Forbidden City to a scattered collection in more than 30 institutions around the world, with only less than 4% of the original book remaining. Its loss is a mark of suffering for Chinese civilization and a silent witness of the nation's decline. The book "Embers of Yongle" is based on this to explore the 600-year bitterness of "Yongle Dadian". This pursuit is never just about recovering a book. It is an archaeological excavation of the forgotten history, making the tampered civilizational context clear again - the hidden nourishment of the world's scientific and technological civilization by the "Yongle Dadian" that has been deliberately erased by Western centrism, and the tragic past of guardians of the past who used their lives to protect the classics.