Compendium of Materia Medica, Volume 2 (1596) - Page 1

# The Complete Library in Four Sections original: "Siku Quanshu." This was the largest collection of books in Chinese history, commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty in 1772 to preserve and categorize all essential knowledge.

Section of the Masters

original: "Zi Bu." This is the third of the four traditional divisions of Chinese literature. It contains the writings of various philosophical schools (excluding the Confucian classics), as well as works on agriculture, medicine, mathematics, and the arts.