Cefu Yuangui

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Cefu Yuangui
EditorWang Qinruo, Yang Yi et al.
CountrySong dynasty
LanguageClassical Chinese
Subjectmainly politics and history
Publication date
1013
Cefu Yuangui
Hanyu Pinyin
Cèfǔ Yuánguī
Wade–Gilestsʻê4-fu3 yüan2-kuei1
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese/t͡ʃʰˠɛk̚ pɨoX ŋʉɐn kˠiuɪ/

Cefu Yuangui (冊府元龜) is the largest

Song Dynasty (AD 960–1279). It was the last of the Four Great Books of Song
, the previous three having been published in the 10th century.

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The encyclopedia was commissioned by

Imperial Reader of the Taiping Era and was ranked second in the Siku Quanshu collections.[citation needed
]

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