“从类书到百科全书”,是我手编姜椿芳百科全书文集所用的书名,现在我愿意借来用作本文的题目,因为我写本文时不能不怀着深深的敬意怀念我的老师、我国现代百科全书事业的奠基人姜椿芳。从类书到百科全书,也就是我国现代百科全书如何继承类书的有益传统,吸收外国编纂百科全书的经验,并有所创造,以求在世界百科全书之林中独树一帜,具有中国之特色。这也是姜椿芳生前和我们百科编辑们长期切琢切磨,并付之实践的事情。我们的探索,我们的 “From Class Books to Encyclopedia” is the title of my hand-written Jiang Chun-fang encyclopedia, and now I am willing to borrow it for the title of this article because I can not miss my teacher with deep respect when I write this article, Jiang Chun-fang, founder of the cause of modern encyclopedia in China. From class books to encyclopedias, that is, the useful tradition of how our modern encyclopedia inherits the class books, absorbing the experience of foreign encyclopedia compilation and creating it in the hope of being unique in the world’s encyclopedia and featuring Chinese characteristics. This is also Jiang Chun-Fang’s lifetime and our encyclopedia editors long cut cut grinding, and pay the practice of things. Our exploration, ours