Among the ancient Chinese dictionaries, the "Chinese Dictionary" published by the Chinese Dictionary Press is the best. "Chinese Dictionary" is edited by Luo Zhufeng. Compiled by the China Chinese Dictionary Editorial Committee and the Chinese Dictionary Compilation Office, and published by the Chinese Dictionary Press. The book has 12 volumes of text, with 22,700 single words and 375,000 compound words, about 50 million words, and is equipped with more than 2,000 illustrations.
There is also a volume of "Appendix·Index". The first volume was published in November 1986, and the entire book was published in November 1993. Won the first National Book Award in 1994. On December 10, 2012, the compilation of "Chinese Dictionary" (Second Edition) was launched.
Compilation background
The compilation of "Chinese Dictionary" began in 1975. More than 1,000 experts and scholars from five provinces and one city in Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian and Shanghai participated in the compilation. The book extensively collects words from thousands of ancient and modern Chinese classics and has accumulated nearly 10 million information cards. Based on the compilation principle of "accommodating both ancient and modern times, paying equal attention to the origins and currents", the single words included are limited to those with complex words and citations and examples.
It is organized according to 200 radicals, with traditional Chinese characters at the beginning and simplified characters at the end. The modern pronunciation is marked with Chinese pinyin under the single character, and the ancient pronunciation of Fanqie in ancient rhyme books is quoted. The complex words are also listed in traditional Chinese characters, and it extensively collects words, idioms, idioms, allusions and more common encyclopedia words in ancient and modern Chinese, and is a collection of ancient and modern Chinese vocabulary. The meaning analysis is precise and complete, the interpretation is concise and accurate, and it is supplemented by rich and full documentary evidence.
Each meaning item generally selects 3 to 4 pieces of documentary evidence to fully reflect the historical origin and evolution of the word. The documentary evidence involves the Ministry of Classics and History, hundreds of scholars, collections of ancient and modern literati, opera novels, miscellaneous notes, religious classics, scientific and technological works, academic monographs, modern newspapers and magazines and even local chronicles, inscriptions, unearthed materials, etc. It is extremely precious.