摘要
Two rare volumes of an ancient Chinese encyclopedia sold for more than€8 million at auction finally.The encyclopedia,referred to as Yongle Dadian,was originally commissioned by the Yongle Emperor,the third ruler of the Ming Dynasty.More than 2,000 scholars worked on the encyclopedia between 1403 and 1408.Yongle Dadian may be the largest encyclopedia in the world,and originally contained 22,877 chapters.
