On Collection of Opera Books in the Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty was a period of prosperous and all-round development of opera collection, which showed the trend of the interaction between the court and individuals, including the palace collection, opera collector collection, book collector collection and calligrapher collection. From the noble vassals and senior officials of the imperial court down to the literati and the owners of the bookshops, all of them participated in the collection, showing a tendency of flowing from the palace to the common people. Geographically, the north and the south divide and merge, basically in line with the shift of traditional cultural center. It not only shows the state of the collection of opera books but also represents the overall picture of book collection in ancient times.