A dictionary. How to pass on culture? And the answer is there when you find it in the social platform "showing" or in the dictionary. The modern mandarin dictionary and its expanded version, the great modern mandarin dictionary, are much more than a search tool for writing, building a dynamic, stereo-based network of chinese cultural heritage through a sophisticated codification system。
To understand its meaning, we can break it down from three core perspectives: it serves as a collection capacity for cultural “stories”, as an updated mechanism for cultural “live water” and as a communication function for cultural “bridges”。
From the perspective of the cultural warehouse, it systematically embraces our language. Bottom
For cultural heritage, the modern chinese dictionary is first and foremost a large and systematic cultural “storage”. Its task is to incorporate the cultural vocabulary scattered over history and in everyday life into the collections。
Its upgraded version of the modern mandarin dictionary is larger, with a total of 157,000 words, of which approximately 25,000 are encyclopedias, which greatly expands the coverage of traditional cultural specializations。
For example, under the word “book”, you can see at once the words “books” “books” “books” “books” “books” “holys” “drafts” “models” and so on, the traditional chinese literature of culture and the arts of calledigraphy are presented in a central fashion; under the word “ethnic”, 56 nationalities are grouped in names, and the national culture is clear。
This organization inherited the wisdom of qing dynasty and made the dictionary itself a small thematic cultural encyclopedia。
From the perspective of cultural live water, it has a dynamic mechanism of “up-to-date”
If it is static, the dictionary can easily become a cultural fossil. The strength of the modern chinese dictionary series is that it has a core set of principles that allow culture to “live”: “proper, new, historical, pluralistic”。
The web-based term “shows” was introduced in 2016 and traced back to the southern word “steals”, reflecting its acceptance and regulation of new and dynamic terms。
“multiple” refers to selective inclusion of dialects (e. G. “breathhouse”), community words (e. G. “webworker”) and words (e. G. “who loves whom”), presenting a rich geographical and community profile in chinese。
From the point of view of cultural bridge, it connects ancient, elegance to the quartet
For ordinary users and society, the dictionary plays an essential role as a “cultural bridge”。
Comprehensive judgement: it built a dynamic, stereo-cultural heritage system
Thus, the modern chinese dictionary means much more to cultural heritage than “recognizing some ancient words”。
It has built a dynamic, stereo-cultural heritage system through a three-pronged business model of warehouse-live water-bridge. The system has both static functions (remaining) for preservation and dynamic mechanisms for metabolism (nuclei); it sets the core of clear norms (proper) and embraces the branches of diversity (multiple)。
In the end, it prevented the chinese culture from two extremes: being out of time because of rigidity and becoming a specimen in museums; and being disempowered because of free circulation, becoming fragmented and shallow. It proves that the true legacy is not the preservation of the original, but rather the embrace of the changing times while maintaining the core, so that the old culture continues to flow and rejuvenate in the current linguistic life。
This may be a dictionary of the deepest cultural missions that can be carried out。
