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太平御览

太平御覽
Tàipíng yùlǎn
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era, the Song-dynasty encyclopedia of 1,000 scrolls compiled 977–983

Examples

HSK 6
宋太宗每天都要读三卷《太平御览》。
Sòng Tàizōng měitiān dōu yào dú sān juàn 《 Tàipíng yùlǎn 》.
Emperor Taizong of Song made a point of reading three scrolls of the Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era every day.
HSK 7-9
《太平御览》是宋代的一部百科全书，共有一千卷。
《 Tàipíng yùlǎn 》 shì Sòngdài de yí bù bǎikē quánshū, gòngyǒu yìqiān juàn.
The Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is a Song-dynasty encyclopedia of a thousand scrolls.

Tips

history
李昉 and a team of scholars compiled it from 977 to 983 on the orders of 宋太宗. First called 太平总类, it was renamed after the emperor read it through, three scrolls a day: 御览 means 'read by the emperor'. It quotes some 1,690 earlier works, most of them now lost, which makes it a key source for texts that no longer survive.
culture
When courtiers worried that the emperor was wearing himself out, he answered that opening a book always does some good, the origin of the idiom 开卷有益.

Stroke Order

太 tài
平 píng
御 yù
览 lǎn