Ci Hai (Seventh Edition) is a shrunken book cover.
"Cihai" is the only large-scale comprehensive dictionary in China that integrates dictionaries, language dictionaries and encyclopedia dictionaries with words and words. Compilation began in 1915, the first edition was published from 1936 to 1937, the first revision was initiated in 1958, after six revisions, and in August 2020, the color edition of Cihai (Seventh Edition) was published. In order to meet the needs of different readers, in January 2022, the condensed version of Cihai (seventh edition) was released.
The miniature version is consistent with the color picture book in terms of content, and the picture is changed to a hand-drawn line drawing, and the price is more affordable. The total word count is 23 million words, and the total number of entries is nearly 130,000. Hand-drawn line drawing not only reduces the cost price, but also has considerable visual beauty. A custom magnifying ruler is also included with the book, which can be used as a magnifying glass and bookmark.
Reflect the great changes of the times, and record new things and achievements in many fields
"Ci Hai" is known as "the memorabilia, archives and milestones of history and the times", and undertakes the mission of recording the new era and writing the new era. Chen Zhili, editor-in-chief, pointed out that the seventh edition of "Cihai" gathered experts and scholars from various disciplines, timely absorbed new achievements, new things, new terms, and new terms in the fields of humanities and social sciences and science and technology in China and the world, and comprehensively collected and reflected the brilliant achievements and great changes of the times in China's socialist construction through the addition of entries and the revision of interpretations.
For the first time, Cihai (Seventh Edition) systematically includes articles related to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in the form of reference book entries, which comprehensively reflects a series of major theoretical achievements and important development strategies since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. At the same time, a large number of revisions and additions have been carried out in terms of content that keep pace with the times, the discipline structure has become more perfect, the knowledge system has become more systematic, and the new things and achievements in the past 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China have been concentrated, especially the changes in the domestic and foreign situations in the past decade and the new developments in politics, economy, society, science and culture.
Compared with the sixth edition, there are more than 11,000 new entries (meaning items) in the seventh edition, and more than 75% of the original terms have been revised or updated to varying degrees. For example, the Chinese Geography Department has added "Xiong'an New Area", "Fiery Cross Reef", "Huangyan Island", "Chiwei Island" and so on. The Department of Astronomy has added to the world's largest aperture radio telescope built by China , the "500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope". The department of architecture has added revenue to the "Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge" and so on. In space science, the "Chang'e series of lunar probes" entry complements the chang'e-4 probe's first human landing on the far side of the moon.
For the first time, items such as "Beidou Satellite Navigation System", "Big Data", "Quantum Communication", "Artificial Intelligence", "Mobile Internet", "5G" and "Internet of Things" were included, reflecting the rapid development of China's mobile Internet in the past decade or so.
It includes "Yu Min", "Jin Yong", "Rao Zongyi", "Li Xueqin", "Yang Dai", "I.M. Pei", "Hawking", "García Márquez", "Doris Lessing" and other people who have passed away in the fields of science, literature, architecture and history at home and abroad in the past decade. When the superstar falls, "Ci Hai" retains a brilliant figure for them, making it shine forever in the starry sky of human civilization.
More than 1,800 top experts in various disciplines, a cultural ceremony that took 6 years to create
"Ci Hai is a set of general reference books, and its first feature is its authority, aiming at the forefront of the entire science, or the most meaningful political, social, scientific and technological and other fields. At the same time, it maintains a very rigorous scientific style in all aspects. Quoting the contents of the "Ci Hai" can be used as a conclusive conclusion, so its scientific value is relatively high. Yan Shiyun, former president and professor of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, summed up the three characteristics of Cihai - authority, scientificity and accuracy.
For more than 80 years, authority, science and accuracy have won a good reputation for Cihai, making this brand more brilliant after years of precipitation. An authoritative and stable compilation team and a rigorous and scientific compilation process escort the exquisite quality of "Ci Hai".
"Ci Hai" has a very authoritative and relatively stable team of compilers, from Shu Xincheng and Chen Wangdao to Xia Zhengnong and Chen Zhili, from Su Buqing and Gu Chaohao to Li Daqian, from Tan Qihua to Zou Yilin, from Guo Shaoyu, Zhu Dongrun, Zhang Peiheng to Chen Sihe, Chen Shangjun, Luo Yuming... Generation after generation of top scholars in the country have passed on the torch and inherited the past and the future, ensuring the authority, accuracy and standardization of "Ci Hai".
The team of authors of the seventh edition is composed of more than 1,800 first-class experts and scholars from dozens of colleges and universities and scientific research institutions across the country. Full of the spirit of being highly responsible to the country and the people, everyone completed the task of compiling and publishing "Cihai" (seventh edition) with high quality in 6 years, and created a cultural classic covering more than 100 disciplines such as language and writing, natural science, philosophy and social science.
"Ci Hai is an overall display of contemporary scholarship, in which countless scholars and editors have invested a lot of energy in it, striving to comprehensively and accurately reflect the world's cutting-edge changes." Chen Shangjun, a professor at the Department of Chinese of Fudan University, participated in the editing of the fourth to seventh editions of Cihai, and as the chief editor of the seventh edition of ancient Chinese literature, he pointed out that the study of Tang Dynasty literature has developed rapidly in the past 40 years, and many new materials have been discovered, such as the epitaphs of the first-class poets of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Yingwu, Li Yi, and Yao He, who have been unearthed, and the epitaphs provide the most accurate information about their lives, which are reflected in the new edition of "Cihai".
Writer Wang Anyi said that a nation must have such a classic as "Ci Hai", which is not only a book brand, but also a necessity for our lives.
In the more than 80 years since the publication of the first edition, Cihai has undergone many compilations and revisions, forming a rigorous, scientific and effective organizational management system. Each entry enters a strict working procedure from the stage of word acceptance, including hundreds of processes such as word acceptance discussion, word argumentation, trial writing spline, author writing, editor-in-chief review, final draft third review, expert reading through, special inspection, and full manuscript proofreading (12 times).