who made the yongle encyclopedia
Yongle Encyclopedia. The Yongle Encyclopedia (Traditional Chinese: æ°¸æ¨å¤§å¸; Simplified Chinese: æ°¸ä¹å¤§å¸; pinyin: YÇnglÃ¨ DÃ diÇn; literally âThe Great Canon [or Vast Documents] of the Yongle Eraâ) was a Chinese compilation commissioned by the Chinese Ming Dynasty Emperor Yongle, in 1403. More than 2,169 scholars worked on the transcription.