八年级上册英语沪教牛津版：8AU1 Encyclopaedias：Yongle Dadian.pptx

沪教版牛津英语B 八年级上册 Unit 1 Yongle Dadian 1. What is encyclopaedia?An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects. Yongle DadianYongle EncyclopediaYongle Canon (经典) 1. What is Yongle Dadian?2. Who commissioned Yongle Dadian? Early in the fifteenth century during the Ming Dynasty, the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di decided to create a great encyclopaedia. He wanted to make a full written record of thousands of years of Chinese literature, culture and knowledge about subjects such as history, geography, philosophy, and the arts and sciences. 1. What is Yongle Dadian?Yongle Dadian is a great Chinese encyclopedia .2. Who commissioned Yongle Dadian?Yongle Emperor Zhu Di Early in the fifteenth century during the Ming Dynasty, the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di decided to create a great encyclopaedia. He wanted to make a full written record of thousands of years of Chinese literature, culture and knowledge about subjects such as history, geography, philosophy, and the arts and sciences.Why did he commission this great work? 播放介绍永乐大帝的视频 a. The Yongle Emperor, personal name was Zhu Di.b. He was the third Emperor of the Ming dynasty.c. Zhu Di was the fourth son of the Hongwu Emperor.Who is Yongle Emperor?Tick(√) the correct answers.√ √ √ Early in the fifteenth century during the Ming Dynasty, the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di decided to create a great encyclopaedia. He wanted to make a full written record of thousands of years of Chinese literature, culture and knowledge about subjects such as history, geography, philosophy, and the arts and sciences.Why did he commission this great work?Zhu Di wanted to use Yongle Dadian as a tool to show the Chinese people and the rest of the world how powerful he was. It was a huge job for the scholars. They collected and copied thousands of texts from all over China. The work was finished in 1408. It was made up of 22,937 rolls in 11,095 volumes. This amazing collection was called Yongle Dadian. It was one of t