Sancai Tuhui
Template:Short description Template:Ref-improve Template:Italic title Template:Chinese Sancai Tuhui (Template:Lang-zh, Template:Respell), compiled by Wang Qi (Template:Zh) and his son Wang Siyi (Script error: No such module "Lang".), is a Chinese leishu encyclopedia, completed in 1607 and published in 1609 during the late Ming dynasty, featuring illustrations of subjects in the three worlds of heaven, earth, and humanity. The work contains a large number of posthumous and contemporary depictions of Chinese emperors.
Title
The title of this encyclopedia has been variously translated into English as "Illustrations of the Three Powers",[1] "Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms", "Pictorial Compendium of the Three Powers", and others; in the original title, "Sancai" (Script error: No such module "Lang".) refers to the three realms of "heaven, earth, and man", and "Tuhui" (Script error: No such module "Lang".) means "collection of illustrations".
Description
This encyclopedia is organized into 106 chapters in 14 categories (astronomy, geography, biographies, history, biology, and such), with text and illustrations for the articles. Reproductions of this encyclopedia are still in print in China.
While it contains some inaccurate or mythological articles (for example, the articles on the horseshoe crab and the crane), it also distinguished itself from the common "everyday encyclopedias" (Script error: No such module "Lang"., riyong leishu) at that time by being accurate in some other articles (for example, accurate depictions of the Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese people's clothing, and a very accurate world map (the Shanhai Yudi Quantu).
See also
- Song Yingxing
- Wakan Sansai Zue - A Japanese encyclopedia inspired by the Chinese Sancai Tuhui
References
External links
- Template:In lang http://www.ncl.edu.tw/rarebook/oldcol.htm
- Template:In lang https://web.archive.org/web/20050316001242/http://www.lib.ntu.edu.tw/dbs/dbs/ref/BOOKchin.htm
- Template:In lang https://archive.today/20031217211032/http://www.xhlib.net/xinshu02.htm (World Maps in the Ming Dynasty from the Shanghai Xuhui District Library)
- Template:In lang http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~ihpcamp/pdf/92year/wang-cheng-hua-2.pdf - Wang, Cheng-hua. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". (207 KiB)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., pp. 8–9.
- Template:In lang http://horseshoecrab.sinica.edu.tw/15th.htm
- Template:In lang https://web.archive.org/web/20051128075412/http://www.fhk.gov.tw/fhkbook/hist/hist.asp-sq_no=45.htm
- Template:In lang http://www.rice.edu//fondren/erc/projects/jingban/ (A map from the Chinese encyclopedia)