Recently, a netizen posted that the lawsuit against "Xinhua Dictionary" has attracted attention. A reporter from China Publishing and Media Business Daily consulted legal experts and linguistics experts on this issue. They think,Some netizens may have sued Xinhua Dictionary out of concern for the content of the publication and concern for minors, but their judgment is unprofessional and not objective, and their views may confuse right and wrong and distort the facts.
First, netizens pointed out that "on page 511 of the 12th edition of the Xinhua Dictionary, there is only one interpretation of the word '倭', which is 'called Japan in ancient times', which writes off the historical crimes of the Japanese and violates Article 37 of the "Patriotic Education Law of the People's Republic of China", and 'there is content that promotes, beautifies and denies the acts of aggression and war'", which can be said to be completely far-fetched.
The law stipulates that the premise of violating the law is the "existence" of illegal acts, and the Xinhua Dictionary only explains the "倭" and does not describe it more, let alone the premise of "existence". The assertion of violating this provision is a typical "trumped-up" crime.
Previously, in June, the new edition of the "Xinhua Dictionary" was reported on the Internet to delete the word "倭寇", and the professional ** has investigated the situation, and the facts are as follows:
First, there is a distinction between dictionaries and dictionaries in Chinese reference books"Xinhua Dictionary" as a small dictionary, focusing on the collection of words, from the 50s of the last century to the present, all editions, in the word "倭" has not included the word "倭寇", so the so-called "new version of the deletion" of the word is not true.
The second isThe Modern Chinese Dictionary and Xinhua Dictionary published by the Commercial Press, as medium-sized dictionaries, have always included the word "倭寇" in each edition. The interpretation of the word "倭寇" in the 7th edition of the Modern Chinese Dictionary is: 14 In the 16th century, Japanese pirates repeatedly harassed and robbed the coast of Korea and China. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese invaders were also called Japanese invaders.
Xinhua Dictionary 1957 edition of the text "倭".
The 12th edition of the Xinhua Dictionary contains the word "倭".
The 7th edition of the Modern Chinese Dictionary contains the word "倭寇".
Second, the word "play" has the word "playing".As early as 1951, the word "sex" was used in the "Opinions of the Southwest Branch of the Supreme People's Court on the Issues of Crime and Sentencing". In the Xinhua Dictionary, one definition of the word "play" is "not to take it seriously;."teasing",This just shows that in the expression of the "Xinhua Dictionary", the social phenomenon of "* sex" is to be resolutely opposed, and in this sense, "playing" is a derogatory and negative word.
Third, the word "tired" includes the word "burdensome", which means "burden", for example, "the child is small and has become a burden". Looking at the corpus of newspapers and periodicals, there are many such use case expressions. Raising children is the responsibility of adults, and "children are small", and adults need to take care of and cultivate them, which is a "burden" to some extent. Therefore, the state has repeatedly introduced various care and encouragement policies for the birth and raising of children.
Fourth, one of the meanings of the word "don't" is "to be stretched or stuck", and then there is a use case of "a pistol pinned to his waist". Scenes of "don't shoot" in film and television dramas and literary works are very common, and the person who "doesn't shoot" may be a positive characterSuch as the police, the People's Liberation Army,It could also be the villain,Such as robbers, bandits. Here are just examples based on linguistic facts.
Fifth,Words such as "toying", "cumbersome" and "don't shoot" belong to the negative, negative and neutral words in the Chinese vocabulary system. It is unavoidable that the Xinhua Dictionary includes negative words and negative words, and it is in line with the norms of lexicography. The compilation of dictionaries and dictionaries must reflect linguistic phenomena comprehensively and objectively. The examples of "don't shoot", "*sex" and "become a burden" are high-frequency words and typical collocations, all of which are supported by corpus, so they are included in the "Xinhua Dictionary".
The cover of the 12th edition of the Xinhua Dictionary.
Xinhua Dictionary is the first modern Chinese dictionary in New China, from the 1st edition to the current 12th edition, which lasted for more than 70 years and is the cultural brand of New China. Over the past 70 years, batch after batch of new Chinese cultural builders have compiled, revised, and published the "Xinhua Dictionary" with lofty spiritual character, and Ye Shengtao, Wei Jiangong, Shao Quanlin, Ding Shengshu, Chen Yuan, Wang Li, Lu Shuxiang, Zhou Zumo, Cao Xianzheng, and so on have all participated in the compilation and revision of this small dictionary.
Xinhua Dictionary 1957 new 1st edition cover.
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