Hello, there are no 100,000 questions in "One Hundred Thousand Whys".
1. "One Hundred Thousand Whys" doesn't even have ten thousand questions
The first edition of "One Hundred Thousand Whys"
In 1961, Children's Society The first edition of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" was launched, and six editions have been released so far. The sixth edition, which has the largest content among them, only has 4,500 questions in the book, which is far from one hundred thousand. The second edition in the middle has 2003 questions, the fourth edition has 1919 questions, and the fifth edition, which is a supplement to the previous edition, has 1088 questions.
The sixth edition of "One Hundred Thousand Whys"
2. "One Hundred Thousand Whys" was born in Russia and grew up in New China
The first book in the world "One Hundred Thousand Whys" was actually born out of a translation accident. In 1929 in the Soviet Union, a young man named Ilin resigned from a factory and became a full-time writer. In order to differentiate himself from his brother, a children's literature writer, he decided to write a popular science book for children. The Long March begins with the first step. If a book wants to sell well, it is very important to name it, so he referred to a poem by his idol Nobel Prize winner Joseph Rudyard Kipling: "One million Hows, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys." However, because the Soviet and British dialects were different, he translated "seven million" into the Russian concept of an imaginary number that means a lot, "one hundred thousand", so there was the Soviet version of "One Hundred Thousand Whys".
Yilin's "One Hundred Thousand Whys" is very short, about 50,000 words, but the fewer words, the greater the impact. In 1934, the book was introduced and translated by Kaiming Bookstore, which set off a wave of popular science craze in China. The Children's Publishing House was also very inspired and wanted to work hard to publish some good science popularization books for children. Therefore, China's most powerful science popularization IP "One Hundred Thousand Whys" turned out to be International Children's Day on June 1, 1961. Readers were very interested in popular science books. The hungry demand has created an era of crazy reading in our country. In just three years before the second edition of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" was released in 1964, the first edition was reprinted 11 times.
3. "One Hundred Thousand Whys" is the real "Doomsday Survival Manual"
When I was a child, I only watched the excitement, but I didn't know the slogan of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" when I saw it. Too understanding: "One Hundred Thousand Whys" will be useful for a lifetime and will never be forgotten by generations of people.
When I grew up, I looked back at my family copy of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" and realized that there are many contents in it that I really cannot forget and cannot forget. This is not just a popular science book, it can save lives at the end of the world. survival manual. There are a hundred thousand whys, and surviving the end of the world is no problem.
4. "One Hundred Thousand Whys" predicts your prediction
While the respondents are still in the stage of imagination about whether the Third World War will break out, our " "One Hundred Thousand Whys" has already started "practical training" and accurately predicts your predictions. Let me use a series of questions and answers to tell you what it means: You are still on the first level, and I am already in the atmosphere.
If I don’t tell you, can you tell that this is from "One Hundred Thousand Whys"?
"Weapons and National Defense"
"Weapons and National Defense" 2
Now the sixth edition of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" also has a separate volume of "Weapons and National Defense" , worthy of being a popular science IP, awesome.
5. The author of more than 30 chapters of the first edition of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" is a 19-year-old college student
Some people are still confused at the age of 19, and some have become "Ten The Q&A "Ten Thousand Whys" is the "backbone". In 1961, a 19-year-old college student in the Department of Chemistry published a series of popular chemistry articles, which were published as "The Carbon Family". Unexpectedly, this book brought about earth-shaking changes in his life.
"The Family of Carbon"
Cao Yanfang, the editor of the chemistry volume of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" at that time, saw this book and thought, "This young man is a talent" and invited him to participate in writing the second chapter. One edition of "One Hundred Thousand Whys". So the first version of the chemistry volume of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" contained 175 "whys", and he wrote 163 of them by himself. Moreover, the first edition of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" originally contained 971 "whys", and he wrote more than 300 of them alone, becoming the author who wrote the most at that time. The rejection rate is high enough to become the spiritual idol of contemporary Party B.
Ye Yonglie
This young man who had not graduated yet was the writer who participated in the compilation of the subsequent six editions of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" - Mr. Ye Yonglie.
6. "One Hundred Thousand Whys" is still the magic tool to get the mother-in-law
"Double Umbrella"
Why is it said that "One Hundred Thousand Whys" changed Ye Yonglie's life? . Because this set of books not only enabled him to embark on the path of becoming a writer, but also won the love and recognition of his mother-in-law. Many years later, Ye Yonglie and his wife Yang Huifen told a story in their memoir "Double Umbrella". When Ye Yonglie visited Yang Huifen for the first time, he brought a set of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" as a gift. Yang Huifen recalled, "My mother not only read "One Hundred Thousand Whys", but also followed the instructions in the book very seriously. As for cooking, my mother usually likes to cook spinach and tofu, and I also like to eat it. But since she watched After reading the book "One Hundred Thousand Whys", my mother stopped cooking this dish. When she saw her neighbors in the same kitchen cooking this dish, she also reminded others that they should not cook spinach with tofu because it was cooked this way. Calcium oxalate will be produced, which is harmful to the human body."
In 2020, teacher Ye Yonglie passed away at the age of 80. Teacher Ye Yonglie has dedicated his life to the creation of popular science literature. His articles have inspired generations of children to grow up. "I'm sorry, I can no longer answer why for you." Teacher Ye who wants to have this sentence engraved on his epitaph should also want to answer Finish the over 100,000 questions from the kids.
Finally, I hope that China’s science popularization will get better and better, and people’s lives will become sweeter and sweeter!