page_title: National Library of China
section_title: Notable collections and items
hierarchical_section_title: National Library of China / Collections / Notable collections and items
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 资治通鉴残稿一卷1 司马光手稿 33.8×130厘米，共29行，465字，记载东晋永昌元年（322）一年的史实。 宋赵汝述、葛洪、程垓、赵崇龢跋；元柳贯中、黄溍、宇文公谅、朱德润、郑元祐、任希夷跋。 English: Original draft of the Zizhi Tongjian by Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty, located in the National Library of China.
context_page_description: The National Library of China or NLC in Beijing is the national library of the People's Republic of China. With a collection of over 37 million items, it is one of the largest libraries in Asia and one of the largest in the world. It holds the largest collections of Chinese literature and historical documents in the world.
  The forerunner of the National Library of China, the Imperial Library of Peking, was founded on 9 September 1909 by the government of the Qing dynasty. It was first formally opened after the Xinhai Revolution, in 1912. In 1916, the library received depository library status. In July 1928, its name was changed to National Peiping Library and was later changed to the National Library.
context_section_description: a collection of over 270,000 ancient and rare Chinese books, and over 1,640,000 traditional thread-bound Chinese books
  over 35,000 inscriptions on oracle bones and tortoise shells from the Shang dynasty (c. 16th–11th century BC)
  surviving tablets of the Xiping Stone Classics created by Cai Yong (132–192) of the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD)
  more than 16,000 volumes of precious historical Chinese documents and manuscripts from the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang
  old maps, diagrams, and rubbings from ancient inscriptions on various materials
  copies of Buddhist sutras dating to the 6th century
  original draft of Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian
  books and archives from imperial libraries of the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279), including the works of Zhu Xi
  oldest extant printed edition of the Huangdi Neijing (ca. 100 BC), from the Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
  the most complete surviving Ming dynasty (1368–1644) copies of the Yongle Encyclopedia ("Great Canon of the Yongle Era")
  a copy of the Siku Quanshu ("Complete Library of the Four Branches of Literature"), completed in 1782 under the Qing dynasty
  essential literary and books collection from the Qing imperial colleges and renowned private collectors
caption: A page from the original draft of Zizhi Tongjian (published in 1084) written by Sima Guang
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