明朝与文艺复兴的对比（英文版）

Literature:
China history four classic "journey to the west","Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "the Water Margin"three from the Ming dynasty. "Yongle Dadian" is a Ming Dynasty Yongle Emperor ordered the compilation of thebook, the book consists of 22937 volumes, bound into11095 volumes, total about 370000000 words. It's a is a cultural event in Ming dynasty. Because of "Yongle"all the books together, according to lighting Hongwuyears published a book "Hong Wu Zhengyun"according to different content is divided into different classes. The book contains more than 8000 kinds ofbooks information from pre Qin, down to the early Ming,it saves the precious literature before the Ming Dynasty,a lot of philosophy history, geography, language,literature, art, religion, science and technology and so on, the word does not add to collect. Someone says,the Qing Dynasty also has "Si Ku Quan Shu", but what does not know Qian Long "Si Ku Quan Shu" is to borrowbooks in the name of the literary inquisition removed a lot is not conducive to the ancient and precious historical materials. So, "Yongle" it's value, it is to protect the original China traditional literature, is very valuable Chinese ancient cultural heritage.Unfortunately, "Yongle canon" in the late Qing Dynastywas destroyed by the Eight Power Allied forces, are now only 221 copies. From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the novel literary form that is fullydemonstrated its social function and value of literature,breaking the monopoly of orthodox poetry, in the history of literature, made with the Tang, song, Yuan Dynasty drama put on a par with position. The content of the popular novel of Ming Dynasty is rich, diverse forms,both long Ju Zhi, and short of. The novel eye test, nothundreds, spread to fifty or sixty much so far arehundreds of short stories. Reflect the realityrequirements of literary and artistic works, a lot ofconcentration in this period, the unprecedented prosperity. During the Renaissance in Europe, the UKhas produced drama series Shakespeare, and Chineseis also produced drama series Tang Xianzu. "Peony Pavilion", "Peach Blossom Fan" "Jin Ping Mei", "San Yan Er Pai" and later published "Strange tales from Liaozhai" "scholars" and so on, are revealed chronic illness, feudal society calls for human liberation,celebrate freedom, a vision of a good social work, can be comparable with the Ou Zhouwen Renaissanceworks. The formation of a climax Chinese novels. "San Yan Er Pai" "Jin Ping Mei" and other works show thatthe civic culture has been very active, thinking is open.Because of the social thinking of opening up, all kinds of scientific and technological literature also emerge as the times require, such as Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations", Xu Guangqi's "Nong", Li Shizhen's"Compendium of Materia Medica", Zhu Zaiyu said "Pan Jixun", "law", "River of Cheng Dawei Suan FA Tong Zong", Xu Xiake "Xu Xiake travels" etc.......