Great Dictionary. Volume of Chinese Literature

Author: Xia Zhengnong, Zhang Peiheng
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: The Great Dictionary is a large-scale comprehensive dictionary. Its publication fills a gap in Chinese lexicography. To date, the Ci Hai is the only large-scale comprehensive dictionary in China. It includes both single characters and common words, as well as specialized terms across various fields, serving the functions of both a general and specialized dictionary. With rich vocabulary, convenient retrieval, and strong practicality, it is deeply favored by readers. With the accelerating pace of human knowledge accumulation and innovation and the improvement of China's cultural literacy, many readers with higher education levels have put forward higher demands for the Ci Hai. Therefore, while continuing to compile new editions of the Ci Hai to meet the needs of the times, it is necessary to compile a larger-scale comprehensive dictionary than the Ci Hai, with more words and richer content. The compilation of the Great Dictionary is based on the Ci Hai, inheriting its strengths and expanding them. The focus is on adding new fields and new terms and definitions in various disciplines that have not been covered in the Ci Hai, while appropriately filling in gaps. The entire dictionary contains approximately 250,000 entries and about 50 million words, more than twice the number of entries in the Ci Hai. It is compiled and published in volumes according to subject categories.
Volume One includes over 8,500 entries related to medical sciences. The selection scope includes: basic terms in various disciplines of medical and health sciences, medical figures, historical and literary documents of traditional Chinese medicine, major theories and doctrines, physiological and pathological conditions of each human system, disease names, diagnostic methods, and medical devices, as well as disease names and pathogens in infectious diseases, parasitology, and parasitic diseases that are related to the human body and closely linked to it.
Volume Two is organized into three major categories: General, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Modern Medicine. Among these, Traditional Chinese Medicine is divided according to its traditional academic conventions into general terminology, historical and literary studies, basic theories, pharmaceuticals, health preservation, and clinical medicine. Modern Medicine is arranged into basic medicine, clinical medicine, rehabilitation medicine, preventive medicine, as well as military medicine and other special medical fields, and pharmacy. The categorization is solely for the convenience of retrieval and does not represent the academic system.