Simplified characters are a part of China culture. Simplified Chinese characters are not modern Chinese characters. Most of them come from ancient Chinese characters, cursive characters and vulgar characters. Many simplified characters have a longer history than traditional characters. Therefore, the simplified characters themselves are a part of China traditional culture.
Chinese characters are constantly changing, and simplification has always been the main tendency. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, seal script, official script and regular script all have simplified characters. The earliest mature script we see now is Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Wuding period of Yin Shang Dynasty (BC 1250), which is 3259 years ago. Previously, Wen Tao symbols only recognized individual symbols and could not read a word, so they could not be proved to be the symbol system or characters of the recording language. The Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties is an era of great changes in the form of Chinese characters. It is during this period that seal script became official script and regular script was completed. The change from ancient seal script to modern official script in China is a qualitative leap. Regular script appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and then the font tended to be stable. The shape of Chinese characters was stereotyped in the Han Dynasty, and it has been used to this day, so our characters are called "Chinese characters". It has been used for about 1849 years.
The principle of simplification is an established practice. Since 1956, most simplified Chinese characters have existed since ancient times, as evidenced by Yan's Mannuzu, He's Folk Character Spectrum since Song and Yuan Dynasties (1930) and Qian's Simplified Character Spectrum (1935). The first table is 350 words, the second table is 132 words, and the simplified word summary table is ***482 words. Someone investigated the source of 388 words, and found that there were165,438+065,438+0 words (accounting for 28.665,438+0%) before and after the Han Dynasty, and 55 words (accounting for14.17) from the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty. From Song Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, it was 175 (accounting for 45.65,438+0%), before and after Qing Dynasty, it was 34 1 word (accounting for 87.88%), and before the Republic of China, it was 46 words (accounting for 1 1.86%).
Calligraphers and the masses have created and used many simplified characters, so it is not true that simplified characters are not good-looking.
The simplified Chinese characters written by calligraphers are very beautiful. For example:
Regular script copybook: Yu Shinan (? -638) The book "Monument to the Confucius Temple" contains: shape, humility, generals, Yu, Lai, Sui, Er, Yong, Mai and Ji.
Chu suiliang (? -658) The preface to the Wild Goose Pagoda contains: Gai, Mi, Jing, Ru, Gang and Sui.
Cursive script is an important source of simplified characters.
There are: time, east, Chen, sun, inspection, account, item, building, coming, clip, cheek, chivalrous, basket, shell, learning, seeing, walking, fake, long, Zhang, following, appearance, question, emotion, music and calf.
According to the "Chunhua Pavilion Post" published in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Xizhi (303-36 1 year) wrote the following posts: Dong, Qi, Shi, Wei, Myanmar, Lin, Zong, Zhang, Shi, Jiang, Jian, Dang, Sun, Yang, Shi, Er, Carp, Fish.
The posts are: Taste, Pro, Prediction, Zhu, Dang, Q, Dun, Xu, Er, Wen, Mi, Jiang, Lai, Duan, Tangle, Jue, Sui, Men, Tong, Nothing, Lao, Kidney, Xing, Tang, Disappointment, Time, Jing, Chuan, Writing, Sun and so on.
Wang Xizhi used it in the running script: Yu, Jiang, Sui, Duan, Qi, Wei, Xia, Mian, Jiang, Jie Li, Ci, Liang, Zhi, Yu, Yu, Xing, Shu, Xie, defeat, mourning, cover, paper and book.
Used in Tang Dynasty (557-64 1): Lai, Leap, Yu, Wen, Beggar, Wei, Qin, Duan, Sui, Yin, General, Chivalrous, Rong, Door, Leisure, Wall, Grain, Gu, Paper, Controversy, Sui, Yun, International.
Yu Shinan (? -638) Use: Come, ask, salute, absolutely, dimension.
In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi (1037—101) used the following simplified words: Gu, Gai, Lai, Luo, Yu, Hunger, Mistaken, Convergence, General, Please, Jue, Wan, Er, Jia and Wen.
In the Yuan Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu used the following simplified characters (1254-1332): come, give, all, fear, quality, funeral, general, door, pot, set, please, refuse and violate.
Simplified characters used in Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty (1555—1636): Ji, Wei, Jiang, Na, Ji, Yu, Wan, Zheng, Gai, Xiao, Gu, Lou, Fu, Chang, Yu, Wei, Lan, Jin, Shi, Zhu, Xiao.
There are the following simplified characters used in Qing dynasty (1693—1765): question, feeling, doing, dream, poem, coming, silk, Miao, Wei, Wei, er, present, painting, smell, Zhuang, sword, red, rice, Jia and Jian.
Some simplified characters were created by the masses. The common words in Dunhuang unearthed documents are: love, stumbling, pen, entanglement, dust, insect, bed, purity, ci, broken, falling, er, cover, gu, hanging, country, number, hunger, trace, bearing, clip, pod, cheek, firmness, inspection, general, crimson, classics.
Some simplified characters are ancient Chinese characters, some are written by calligraphers and some are written by the masses, all of which are the cultural heritage of our country. For a long time, simplified characters, traditional characters and variant characters are actually parallel. Simplification is actually changing traditional Chinese characters into simplified ones. In a sense, simplification is to select simplified characters according to the spirit of "words don't mean everything". At first, many simplified and traditional Chinese characters were used. People are exposed to simplified Chinese characters every day, which is basically true, and it is not difficult to learn because of its physical connection with traditional Chinese characters. Therefore, the use of simplified characters will not cause cultural faults, and it is far from cutting off history. Simplified Chinese characters can be used to print ancient books and spread ancient culture. In the scheme, 2236 simplified characters have an average of 10.3 pictures, and the corresponding 2259 traditional characters have an average of 15.6 pictures, and each character has an average reduction of 5.3 pictures, which improves the clarity of Chinese characters and saves eyesight. The shortsightedness rate in Chinese mainland, where simplified characters are used, is lower than that in Taiwan Province and Hongkong, where traditional characters are used. This not only saves the burden of learning and memory, but also saves the time of writing, which embodies people-oriented.
We want to spread China's culture, that is, we want to spread our thoughts and ideas to the world. Language and writing are both media and tools. Fundamentally speaking, writing is a written expression of language. When we develop China culture, we should carry forward ideas, not Chinese characters themselves. Chinese characters are just a tool, a tool to express our thoughts. Therefore, as long as our words can express ideas, there is no difference between simplified Chinese characters and traditional Chinese characters. The only difference is that simplified form is easier to use. Therefore, it is naturally more conducive to promoting Chinese culture.
Simplified Chinese characters are not only more convenient to use, but also easy to popularize. More importantly, most of the simplified characters completely conform to the principles of Chinese characters. 97% of the simplified characters conform to the "Six Books" method. So some people think that the concept of "simplifying the logic of words without words" is actually very wrong. You can look at the post "Simplified Chinese Characters" that I spent half a year sorting out: /p/ 12893878 18. For details, please go to Baidu Post Bar for discussion.