Field Identification Handbook of Common plants in China launches Beijing Book about Beijing Flower Yanyun

The Manual for Field Identification of Common plants in China-Beijing Book (hereinafter referred to as "Beijing Book") was launched in Beijing a few days ago. The Beijing Book fills the gap in the lack of plant field manuals in Beijing for many years.

Liu Bing, author of the book and assistant researcher of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, held a popular science activity with the theme of "Beijing's Flower and Yanyun" at the Hanfenlou Bookstore of the Commercial Press, starting with the geographical situation and plant distribution of Beijing. this paper briefly introduces the flowers and plants in Beijing from the aspects of plant name, usefulness, toxicity and historical origin.

Through his story, we can know that understanding plants is not a single process of knowing names, it requires human observation and detailed analysis, which is an interactive process. Through the use of manuals, we can improve the systematicness of plant cognition, and finally enable people to understand plants without books. Although some App can recognize some common horticultural species, there is often nothing they can do when it comes to wild plants. And app directly gives the results, depriving people of the process of thinking and observation, and is unable to compare similar species.

"the plant identification manual is well-founded and can quickly improve the systematicness of our plant recognition, so that ordinary people can use it easily for a period of time. Rather than App, the manual emphasizes the process of identifying plants rather than the results, which is the joy of understanding nature. " Liu Bing said.

As Beijing's own plant manual, the Beijing Book selects 1221 species of common plants belonging to 565 genera and 127families in Beijing, which can also provide a reference for field identification of plants in North China. It will provide useful help for hikers who like outdoor sports and flower watching in the wild, plant taxonomy lovers and ecologists who need to conduct sample survey, and bring more joy to mass tourism. guide people to better understand and touch the products of Beijing. The main picture on the cover of the book is Beijing's unique Acer Leaf Clematis, which, together with single-root grass and Fangshan Corydalis, is known as Beijing's "three unique cliffs", which is very representative.

Mark Ping, director of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice president of the Chinese Botanical Society, said that in recent years, he has been trying to compile a set of pocket books suitable for plant classification lovers and beginners. Books such as the Flora of China are very professional. Although there are a large number of plates in the Atlas of higher plants in China, they are still very professional, and these professional books are multi-volume tome and are not suitable for non-professionals. In view of this, we strive to make a set of professional popular science books. Professionalism is mainly reflected in the scientific nature of the text, content and photos of the series of books, which requires that the author is a professional, and the content has been examined and approved by authoritative experts; popularity is to take into account the receptive ability of enthusiasts and pay attention to the popularity of the text content. give priority to the wonderful photo "picture theory".

It is reported that seven copies of the "Manual for Field Identification of Common plants in China" have been published, and five have been published at the Commercial Press. There will also be Hainan Book, Inner Mongolia Book and West Sichuan Book. Eventually, the areas of these manuals will cover the whole of China and contain plants of different groups and habitats.