[Tex/LaTex] Change reference title size

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I need to change the font size of reference title in ctexbook. An obvious way is redefining the \bibname macro. However, that would change the heading as well. For example,
\renewcommand{\bibname}{\zihao{2} 参考文献}
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So, my question is how to change the font size of the title without affecting the heading. Since biblatex is incompatible with many other packages, I would prefer non-biblatex solution.

Best Answer

Motivated by Gonzalo Medina's answer from How to remove the “References” title, I use \patchcmd to modify the definition of \thebibliography.

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\chapter*{\bibname}}{\chapter*{\zihao{2}\bibname}}{}{}

gives what I want.