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The Huanglan or Imperial Mirror was one of the oldest Chinese leishu encyclopedias, compiled by the Cao Wei dynasty on the order of its founding emperor Cao Pi (Emperor Wen). Compilation started in 220 and was completed in 222. The purpose of the Huanglan was to provide the emperor and ministers of state with conveniently arranged summaries of all that was known at the time. Complete versions of the Huanglan existed until the Song dynasty, when it became a mostly lost work, although some fragments did survive in other encyclopedias and anthologies. The Huanglan was the prototype of the classified encyclopedia and served as a model for later ones such as the Tang dynasty's Encyclopedia of Literary Collections (624) and the Ming dynasty's Yongle Encyclopedia (1408).

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