It's time for China people to rebuild their spirit and revive their culture! Traditional Chinese characters are symbols of the Chinese nation and cannot be tampered with or discarded at will. As for some extreme friends, it is better to restore traditional Chinese characters to Oracle Bone Inscriptions, or to seal or official script. Few people know about Oracle Bone Inscriptions now, because Chinese culture is broken, and modern scholars can only barely identify it by guessing. Why did the ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and Mayan civilizations disappear? Their descendants don't know what the splendid civilization their ancestors once created is like. Pyramids and hanging gardens have always been unsolved mysteries. Who is the ancestor, has been forgotten by the younger generation, and they live numbly in that once glorious land. How pathetic this is! Alas!
When it comes to seal script and official script, anyone with a little knowledge of calligraphy knows that it is only the difference in fonts, but the fonts are roughly the same. Thousands of years of hard work have been burned by modern people with a revolutionary fire. . . . . . .
Traditional Chinese contains too many rich meanings and connotations, which is very important for primary school students to cultivate national cultural awareness. For example: love, the heart is love. But now simplified characters, where does this mean? Clouds, clouds only exist when there is water, water vapor and fog form clouds, and simplified words are simplified. Moreover, irrelevant words have been replaced. The cloud of Shiziyun and the cloud of weather are completely different. Rice barrel and hat barrel (the two kings are locked in the door, of course, barrels! How vivid) is a completely different meaning. Traditional Chinese characters are easy to understand and remember. What about simplified Chinese characters? Fish is an animal in the water. But modern "fish" don't swim in water. Too much, too much. The old is not necessarily bad, and the new is not necessarily good. Culture needs to be passed down, and so does writing!
The simplification of Chinese characters is a specific product of a specific era. In that revolutionary era, everyone wanted to change their lives, whether they changed or not. The simplification of Chinese characters has caused a great fault in China culture. Ancient books can be simplified, but the remains left by our ancestors can never be erased. It is as difficult for young people to read traditional Chinese characters as it is to read foreign languages. How many people are interested in studying their own culture? National culture cannot be passed down by the younger generation, which is the sorrow of a country and a nation! A unified country has two languages, which is very unfavorable both externally and internally. Generally speaking, the advantages of restoring the original appearance of Chinese characters outweigh the disadvantages! Therefore, it is necessary for the country to gradually restore traditional Chinese characters.
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Simplification of Chinese characters is not worth the loss —— A historical misunderstanding in the evolution of Chinese characters
The popular view for decades is that the simplification of Chinese characters is the progress of China characters, which is conducive to the popularization and development of culture. This ignores the basic law of character development and replaces scientific judgment with emotion and politics. 19 18 There is a line in the Soviet film Lenin: "Think with your head, not with your bones!" "Let's try to think about this problem with our brains.
From less to more, from simple to complex-the road to maturity of Chinese characters
Today, it is generally believed that the development of Chinese characters is from complexity to simplicity, and the simplification of Chinese characters only conforms to this historical trend and does not conform to the historical facts of the development of Chinese characters in China. If we think that Wen Jia in Yin Ruins is similar or even the same as the practical characters in Shang Dynasty, we will find that the original characters are divided into several characters, and the strokes are also increased. For example, from the word "God" originally representing lightning, it has evolved into the word "electricity" with "rain" to represent the "electricity" of lightning; Plus standing next to people, used to express the "extension" of flexion and extension; Add the word "show" to indicate the "god" of the immortal.
In ancient times, there were few words, but there were many words in the language. Therefore, some words have to wear several hats, and one word becomes the writing symbol of many words, expressing different meanings. Part-time job certainly saves trouble, but it brings many difficulties to study. Therefore, we should create words separately, strive for a word and a meaning, and be full-time in every word. As time goes by, the number of words changes from less to more; The form changes from simple to complex; Differentiation, concreteness, singleness and fixity of Chinese characters are the road to maturity. It can be said with certainty that in those more than 1000 years, Chinese characters have grown from few to many, from simple to complex; During the two thousand years from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the simplification of Chinese characters, the total number of Chinese characters is still increasing, and the formal writing form has not changed significantly. Therefore, in the history of China, there is no so-called "simplification trend of Chinese characters", just as China did not experience the process of slavery before feudalism. These are the fantasies of people who are superstitious about historical materialism.
Restoring homophone loan-the retrogression of the development of Chinese characters
It is a major feature of Chinese characters to determine the sound by meaning, shape by sound, know the sound by words and understand the meaning by sound. When the ancients annotated words, they often only needed to indicate the pronunciation of a word somewhere, and the meaning was clear at a glance.
In ancient times, there were few words and no dictionaries. If you can't find the right word when you write, use words with the same pronunciation instead. This is a headache. The pronunciation of words changes, and the pronunciation of different words experiences different changes. A word with the same pronunciation hundreds of years ago may be very different after hundreds of years, and it is difficult to see which word it was originally a substitute. Today, when we read ancient literary works, words are a big obstacle: many words have different meanings in different articles and paragraphs because they are substitutes for other words. Later, there were more words, and with dictionaries, the pronunciation and meaning of words were gradually fixed, and metonymy became less and less. Even polyphonic words are relatively stable in sound and meaning. Nevertheless, one word with multiple sounds has always been the difficulty of Chinese characters, and people who are good at writing deliberately avoid it. It is a grammatical mistake for later generations to use homophones for metonymy Zhang Taiyan called it "borrowing sound", which is actually the "other word" we are talking about today.
Simplified Chinese characters only replace many unrelated but similar words with a word with fewer strokes, which artificially causes the use of "other words" Such as "only" and "only" of "only"; "Development" and "development"; "Later" and "After"; The "dry" of "war" and "dry" of "talent" and so on And the list goes on. This is a retrogression in the development of writing!
Subtracting radicals-the advantages of castrating Chinese characters
If we must talk about the advantages of Chinese characters, the meaning given by their shapes and the rich information in pronunciation must not be ignored. Xu Shen divided Chinese characters into "Wen" and "Zi": "Wen" refers to radicals, radicals and simplified Chinese characters (radicals and radicals are independent characters); Zi is a compound word composed of Wen. "Wen" implies the meaning of words through pictographs, references and cognition; Prompt the pronunciation of words through sounds and forms. For example, the word "car" looks like a shaft that runs through two wheels, with a part carrying people and goods in the middle; The word "Miao" means that the grass grows in the field; "Shang" and "Xia" clearly express their respective meanings. As the saying goes, there is reading in the middle while reading in the middle, which well illustrates the role of radicals and radicals in prompting pronunciation.
Simplifying Chinese characters greatly reduces these important functions of radicals. First, simplify Chinese characters and remove the phonetic or ideographic parts of many Chinese characters. For example, the word "head" of "brain" was originally composed of "bean" with phonetic meaning and "page" with semantic meaning. All words marked with "bean" are pronounced as "bean"; Any word that means "page" is related to the head. In this way, seeing these two roots, we can guess the pronunciation and meaning of the words. Literally, we can't understand the pronunciation of the simplified word "head" and can't see its meaning. Secondly, simplifying Chinese characters has even changed many radicals and capitals, making it completely lose the function of prompting the meaning of words. For example, the simplified "car" will not remind people of the prototype of the car; Simplified characters can't see the relationship with the tongue.
So simplifying Chinese characters means changing or even canceling many parts of Chinese characters that are important for learning, understanding and reading, and performing major surgery on Chinese characters to castrate their advantages.
The price of tofu turning into meat
Many Chinese characters are composed of radicals and radicals. If you can use these radicals, it will be faster and more convenient to learn. Simplified characters have changed or removed these changes, and there is no rule to follow when learning, so we can only rely on rote memorization. At the same time, simplifying Chinese characters will re-summarize several words with detailed division of labor into a multi-tone and multi-meaning word, thus greatly reducing the number of Chinese characters. On the surface, it reduces the total amount of learning. However, due to the increase of polysyllabic words and polysemous words, the intensity of learning words has increased. In principle, the more words, the simpler and more fixed the meaning, and the easier it is for ordinary people to learn and use; However, with few words, wide meanings, many functions and strong flexibility, it is only suitable for people who are good at drawing inferences from others and using them flexibly. I think the simplification of Chinese characters actually increases the difficulty of learning.
Similarly, simplified characters lose a lot of important information about pictograph, cognition and phonology, which increases the difficulty of reading and understanding. Although disyllabic words in Chinese vernacular can make up for these defects to some extent, they are far from being completely offset.
In use, the problem is more prominent. Because the number of multi-tone and multi-meaning characters has greatly increased, it has seriously hindered the user's precise control of characters. In addition, in recent decades, modern Chinese vernacular has undergone rapid changes in Chinese mainland, and the language and writing quality of contemporary literary works have been seriously affected. In addition to the defects in content, the limitation of language and writing is likely to become the biggest obstacle to the spread of these works.
The advantages of simplified Chinese characters are few words and simple writing. This is also the most powerful reason for people who did this profession in those days. But for this convenience, it has caused many difficulties in learning, understanding, reading and using, and the price is very heavy.
A good friend's mother has a mantra: "Tofu makes meat", which is really correct to describe simplified characters.
Cut off the development of culture
The culture of the Chinese nation has undergone two major character reforms: more than 2,000 years ago, Qin Shihuang forcibly promoted the Qin script and abolished the six-nation script used by most intellectuals in one fell swoop; Two thousand years later, we created thousands of new words and abolished Chinese characters that had been used for two thousand years, all for political motives.
In history, some people praised Qin Shihuang's contribution to "Tong Shu", which is even more immortal in the eyes of mainland intellectuals today. However, the Qin dynasty, which lasted only three generations, was the shortest-lived dynasty in history, and the reform of writing failed to prevent its early death. "Books with the same text" has dug a deep ditch for our culture and brought irreparable losses. Books in the pre-Qin period were not only burned in large quantities, but also a few survived and could not be read. The prosperity of hermeneutics in the Han dynasty is unique in history: scholars in the Han dynasty excavated, tampered with, forged, translated, sorted out and annotated ancient books, which made Confucian works handed down and became classics of ten thousand generations. However, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, history called "a hundred schools of thought contend", during which more than nine times out of ten people drowned and anecdotes abound. This is a catastrophe of the motherland's culture.
The simplification of Chinese characters and the japanization of vernacular Chinese (we don't have vernacular Chinese at all, Jin Pingmei and Dream of Red Mansions are written in vernacular Chinese), like two sharp knives, once again cut off the development of culture. Today, among mainlanders, there are very few people who know Chinese characters without simplifying them and can understand Chinese documents. Articles before the Republic of China became antiques and juexue. Culture should be inherited and developed; Politics should be used for reference and reformed. However, only by inheritance can we develop; Only by learning from it can we reform. Otherwise, it would be strange to start from scratch and cross the river by feeling the stones without stumbling. Zhou Youwen, Wu, and Confucius said, "Look at the second generation"; There were Xiao He and Cao Can in the Han Dynasty, which was called "Han inherited Qin system" in history. The successful experience of wise people in history lies in absorbing the achievements and lessons of the previous generation. We experienced a hundred years of chaos, discipline and system, and were completely destroyed; Cultural customs are gone. Because of the language, it is difficult to learn from the west, and it is impossible to learn from the west. It's sad to think of it.
(1) see Xu wrote the legendary era of ancient history in China.
(2) See the Outline of Ancient Chinese written by Zhou Bingjun.
(3) See Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Han).
In the mid-20th century, under the noisy background, a huge Chinese character simplification movement appeared in China. After most complicated Chinese characters are chopped with knives and axes, there is no fat, only thin bones. Because of the large number of simplified characters, great changes in strokes and serious font distortion, it is almost equivalent to re-establishing a writing system. Since then, Chinese mainland has two sets of official printed characters-traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. One set was used and the other set was sealed. Taking the 1950s as a watershed, people born after that only learned simplified Chinese characters, but became unfamiliar with traditional Chinese characters. I am also ignorant, and have never seen a masterpiece that convincingly analyzes and simplifies the motivation of Chinese characters after reading it. Let's just say that the original intention of simplifying Chinese characters is to facilitate the learning of Chinese characters and the transmission of information, and popularize popular culture. Even if this inference holds, simplified characters have been implemented for nearly half a century. What's the effect? I'm afraid it can only be summed up in two words: "things backfire". Simplified characters bring us not only simplification, but also trouble. Simplified Chinese characters make information transmission more complicated than ever. Simplified characters are like an insurmountable gap, blocking future generations on this side of the ditch. If they look at the underworld from the other side, they can't get close to it.
The complexity is that we can only write or record what is happening "now" with newly created simplified characters, and it is impossible to change a lot of information that has been written or recorded in the past. In this way, it is bound to form a terrible situation: young people can't interpret a large number of China traditional documents deposited in the past. Documents before the fifties became "gobbledygook".
Nowadays, the last group of intellectuals who have studied traditional Chinese characters have also reached their destiny. If the traditional Chinese characters are not restored as soon as possible, within 50 years, no one in China will be able to praise the Three Tombs and Five Classics and historical subsets except experts (of course, you need to know classical Chinese to read ancient books, which is another problem). People who are familiar with traditional Chinese characters are becoming endangered "species". This "species" is no less dangerous than pandas. However, to this day, there is no appeal for rescue.
We "traditional people" are getting old. Our next generation, faced with the voluminous ancient books, spiritual food and thousand-year-old wine left by our ancestors, stopped drinking and could not eat any more. The works of a hundred schools of thought contend, the works of eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, are fragrant when eaten in the mouth, and cold when eaten when hungry. However, the charm of Chinese characters for thousands of years was blocked by simplified characters and came to an abrupt end. The complexity of Chinese characters, the difference between words, is far from being comparable to the world. In the face of thousands of years of figures and calligraphy articles, future generations can only look at the ocean and sigh. The 5000-year history of civilization in a great country is in danger of being interrupted. You can't worry. Who can?
Some people think that the problem is not so serious, so it is enough to translate traditional Chinese documents into simplified Chinese texts. It is difficult to translate and reprint all traditional Chinese characters. According to the calculation of relevant experts, if all the traditional Chinese characters (that is, documents before the mid-1950s) are translated into simplified Chinese versions, I am afraid that all the paper mills and printing houses in the world will not be printed in a hundred years, not to mention that some traditional Chinese characters have changed their meanings after simplification and no longer have their previous meanings.
The traditional Chinese characters still used by our fathers have become "ancient Chinese characters" in the next generation, and young people read them just like ancient Chinese characters. This is really a gray humor. However, in the face of humor, we can't laugh.
Characters belong to a relatively conservative cultural form. Who would have thought that Chinese characters, which have been circulating for thousands of years, would suddenly die out after forty or fifty years? People can't help thinking: relatively conservative words are still so short-lived, and what about those cultural forms that are easy to mutate? I can't help but think of a lame metaphor: an impatient winemaker sells it as soon as it comes out of the pot, but in order to squat down and improve the quality, he won't wait to enter the wine cellar, so he can't make good wine in the end.
Cang Xie created Chinese characters to return them. Chinese characters have a long history and have changed several times, which is not an overnight event. Take the word "day" as an example. The word "day" was originally a circle. Later, the center of the circle was added a little, then the center of the circle was changed to hollow, and then the center of the circle was changed to horizontal. Finally, it became the outer horizontal (the inner horizontal intersects with the left and right vertical), which became today's "sky". These changes occurred in 12000 before the establishment of official script in Qin dynasty. Cheng Miao founded the official script, especially after the official script evolved into regular script. After a long period of thinking and exploration, the Chinese character system was generally stereotyped. Although some words have disappeared, some words have merged, and some newly coined words are sparse, overall, they have not changed much and are in a relatively stable state. China's power dynasty, once every emperor had a courtier, and every emperor had to "change customs" to show his unique genius. However, Chinese characters have been used throughout the ages. Chinese characters are almost the only cultural form that can completely inherit the unification of China. Many people in history are eager for success, deliberately seeking change, impetuous, unconventional and aggressive, but failed to shake the lofty foundation of Chinese characters. This is because Chinese characters are tempered in the melting pot of history, not baked. Water and impurities have been largely evaporated, and the rest is almost difficult to remove without any change. What's more, as far as the general law is concerned, words are just established phonetic and ideographic symbols. Once they are recognized by everyone, there is no need to mutate and reshape them, let alone replace them and maintain their authority.
With the accelerated pace of life, people hope to simplify their writing and write quickly. This kind of psychology is not unique to modern people. The ancients also thought of this problem, so they invented the cursive script with sparse strokes and rapid writing. The cursive script is not a calligrapher's patent, but also widely used by ordinary people, so that the so-called "calligraphy style" of Chinese characters has been formed. For example, "learning" was written as a simplified word when the ancients wrote. Characters with complex strokes are printed as a whole, written as a whole, and parallel to each other. At this point, Chinese characters in China are very similar to those in the West. In a sense, it can be considered that simplified characters are the fusion of two individuals, that is, writing is completely equivalent to printing. There is no second case in the world except China to do a two-in-one experiment. The integration of the two means that a considerable number of traditional Chinese characters have been discarded, which makes the Chinese character system unrecognizable and some Chinese characters have been put into historical garbage bins. The ancients learned the style of writing, so they could master two systems. People are very different now. At school, they can only learn simplified characters and rarely touch traditional characters. Therefore, these two writing systems actually no longer exist.
From a vertical perspective, young people can't understand the traditional Chinese documents before the mid-1950s (except a few translated into simplified Chinese characters), and they can't integrate the civilizations from ancient times to the present, resulting in a broken inheritance. Horizontally, the cultural circle of Chinese characters around China also caused great inconvenience when communicating with China. It is also difficult to communicate smoothly with Chinese characters, one is to use the traditional system, and the other is to use the newly created system. In order to make up for the deficiency, traditional Chinese versions of things appear from time to time (for example, traditional Chinese characters are used in the subtitles of the film "Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum"), which is convenient for the audience in the Chinese character cultural circle around China, but makes the young audience in Chinese mainland lose their literary system and can only understand the plot with the indistinguishable local accent. Take care of one thing and lose another, causing artificial confusion.
With the opening of the country, this kind of chaos will become more and more serious.
Simplifying Chinese characters at one time makes the Chinese character system unrecognizable, which not only causes inconvenience in vertical and horizontal information exchange, but also creates a terrible "precedent" without precedent to follow. Everything in the world happens for the first time, and it may happen for the second time. Moreover, the second time can rely on the inertia of the first time, which is unrestrained and harmful. With the first large-scale simplified Chinese character movement, we have reason to worry that there will be a larger simplified Chinese character movement in the future. However, the simplification movement of Chinese characters goes to extremes, and it is easy to enter the track of Chinese Pinyin. This is by no means alarmist. Simplifying Chinese characters to the end will inevitably lead to the logical conclusion that "square characters" are inconvenient. Many people will think that how good Pinyin is, you don't have to hang your head, you can master and use it skillfully by spending one thousandth or one thousandth of your time and energy learning Chinese characters, and you can reduce the error rate to a very low level (unlike Chinese characters, which are prone to mistakes). In that case, why not? Once the simplified characters gain a firm foothold, they will inevitably give birth to the soil of pinyin unconsciously. It won't take long. Compared with this evil result, the disadvantages such as vertical or horizontal information isolation are simply dwarfed and not worth mentioning.
Pinyin Chinese characters is equivalent to destroying Chinese characters.
The worry about pinyin is by no means groundless. This idea was put forward a century ago. In the mid-1950s, the specific scheme of Pinyin was almost ready. Once upon a time, Chinese characters, like swallowfish, were in an extremely dangerous situation. It can almost be said that Chinese characters are different. It is hard to imagine what kind of confusion will be caused if Chinese characters are really abolished.
Some people think that the use of Pinyin is in the forefront of world civilization in the west, which fully shows the superiority of Pinyin. It is reasonable and imperative for China to follow suit.
This statement is ridiculous. His pinyin is not this pinyin.
Oranges taste bitter. The embryo of western characters is composed of letters or symbols equivalent to letters, while the embryo of Chinese characters is primitive hieroglyphics. Pinyin of Chinese characters, spelling one word at a time, can only form pinyin symbols with initials and finals, but can't form pinyin vocabulary (which is very different from western Chinese characters). In Chinese, no matter how closely related words are, they should be spelled one by one when using Pinyin. It is doomed that Pinyin can only be used as an auxiliary phonetic means of Chinese characters. The imitation of the West by the East is no different from the imitation of the East. This imitation must start with noise and agitation, and finally disappear silently. A kind of writing, if there are only words and no vocabulary, can only be regarded as low-level writing, not as advanced writing. It is foolish for a wise man to drop his writing from high to low.
Needless to say, even Japanese, which is closer to western languages than Chinese and has a considerable phonetic component, cannot be completely pinyin. Japan has always had a strong concept of pinyin. The busybodies also tried Pinyin, using pseudonyms (Japanese letters) instead of Chinese characters, and the result ended in failure. They found that after the abolition of Chinese characters and complete pinyin, the reading speed of Japanese dropped significantly, and articles without Chinese characters were more difficult to understand than those with Chinese characters. Some experts also believe that Japanese without Chinese characters is not like Japanese. Nowadays, the preservation of Chinese characters has become the knowledge of Japanese linguists.
Perhaps it is out of the idea of avoiding the tendency of Japanese Pinyin that Japan has simplified only a few Chinese characters, and most of them remain unchanged (some Chinese characters are made by themselves, so there is no need to simplify them). They communicate with each other and like to use Chinese characters. The more Chinese characters they use, the more they show that they are educated and respected.
Let's go back to simplification.
Even if there is no threat and harassment of pinyin from now on, the status of square characters can be ensured, and the losses caused by simplified characters are immeasurable. Imagine that decades later, traditional Chinese characters have completely become antiques. At that time, as China people, facing the paintings of Badashanren, Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi, facing the ci of Europe, Liu, Yan, Zhao, Mi Fei and Su Shi, they were only coarse, not fine; I can't read the handwriting on the photos handed down from my ancestors. You need to cram for the last minute, take out the dictionary and look it up word by word, such as chicken pecking rice; In the face of interesting couplets of tourist attractions, guess at random; Facing the unearthed stone carvings that shocked the world, facing the photocopies of precious documents in the museum, and facing the genealogy handed down by our ancestors, we can't read it, and we will only be interested after twists and turns-what embarrassment and embarrassment it will be.
Think again, China's traditional calligraphy and painting, Buddhist scriptures and other precious documents have been lost overseas, which is by no means a minority. It's hard to find anyone who can help to interpret the mysteries of traditional Chinese characters after a generation has learned them. Even China experts who have studied in China learn simplified Chinese characters. At that time, how will the world recognize China's culture?
The above shortcomings of simplified Chinese characters are secondary. The great loss is that the simplified characters make us lose the most precious national essence. It is an indisputable fact that Chinese characters are the most precious national quintessence. However, there is an even more indisputable fact in this indisputable fact that the essence of Chinese characters lies in their beautiful appearance and mysterious structure. Once these two things are weakened or reshaped, the value of Chinese characters will be greatly reduced even if they still exist. Chinese characters condensed by countless people's painstaking efforts contain many times more information than the Chinese characters themselves, not to mention how many stories are hidden in each word for China people to read here-secular or religious, realistic or mythical, simple or magnificent, profound or simple, metaphysical or metaphysical, moral or ethical ... in a word, it is immortal. The reason why "lucky" is "lucky" and "jumping" is "jumping" has its own reasons, not accidental berthing. However, simplifying the movement of Chinese characters only considers reducing strokes to facilitate writing (in fact, cursive script can still be used without simplifying the movement of Chinese characters), and completely ignores the relationship between Chinese characters and their accessories-"information groups", and the grim reality that not only the "information groups" attached to the font disappear, but also the formal beauty of Chinese characters disappears after simplifying the shape of Chinese characters. For example, as radicals, "Yan" and "Shu" are right and wrong, wrong and missing, beautiful and ugly, with obvious advantages and disadvantages. Although it is the same meaning, its aesthetic value is different. I have asked language experts in the Chinese character circle, and most of them think that Yi is neither a donkey nor a horse, unlike the ideographic font of Chinese characters. Similarly, there are "Zhong", "Zhu" and "Zhu" as radicals and "Bei", "Factory" and "One" as single words. These glyphs are very convenient to write, as if they are inconsistent with them, and I don't want to look at them for a long time. Some simplified characters or strokes are a little more, but I believe the computer can afford to bear a few more strokes. Handwriting can vary from person to person and be simplified by yourself.
The peculiarity of Chinese characters lies in that they are an elegant Rubik's cube with rich cultural flavor, full of fun, turning back and forth, left and right, and the results are quite different.
A Chinese character sometimes represents a contract, sometimes an epiphany, sometimes a fun game, and sometimes a world. It is as big and as small as the universe. The reason why heaven and earth live, ghosts and gods are secluded, people are strange and rivers flow can be found almost directly through Chinese characters. It's interesting to try to figure it out. Its subtle meaning can't be expressed in words, unlike ABCD, A&B account books and rigid fonts in the west.
Can't help but mention calligraphy. China's calligraphy is unparalleled in the world. Traditional Chinese characters may be "complicated" for ordinary people to write, while calligraphers use gold to write, and there is nothing superfluous. A word is a work of art, or beautiful, or strange, or steep and clear, or handsome and elegant, or mysterious and charming, or magnificent and obscure, or winding and dripping, or rich and elegant, or as strong as an axe, or as wild and steep as a stone ... which of these lifelike Chinese characters has not been tempered and shaped by thousands of years, is mature and full of fire colors, which makes people fondle it and pleasing to the eye.
Traditional Chinese characters, except for a few cases, are all connected treasures. The frame structure between each Chinese character is high-level and unique in cleverness, which is often reduced from multiple meanings to one word. When strokes with different meanings are combined together, they are distinct, dense, interlocking, smooth and not stagnant. As the saying goes, "from the side of the ridge, the height is different." Calligraphers don't have a whole heart, they are observant, and they know the character and temperament of every word like the back of their hands. He grasped it with simplicity, truth, falsehood, importance, urgency and rigidity, making it more and more brilliant and radiant. The subtle difference between Ruofu's Liu style and Yan style lies in the intricate changes. A thin one, a fat one, a consistent one, a young one and a down one can all show the calligrapher's personality incisively and vividly.
Of course, simplified characters can also be used in calligraphy, but after simplification, the structural layout becomes another matter, and it is still inappropriate to discuss it with traditional calligraphy. Everything can be changed, which can be divided into mutation and fine-tuning. Mutation is only suitable for extremely special occasions, and most occasions-especially artistic occasions (high artistic content of Chinese characters)-are not suitable for mutation, but only for fine-tuning. There are thousands of Chinese characters, and it is inevitable that there will be several "scum". Just clear or correct them for specific objects. Individual words are too complicated or the collocation of flesh and blood is not reasonable, so we can fine-tune them and cut off redundant branches to make them more energetic. If so, Chinese characters as works of art can be traced back to ancient times. On the other hand, don't pat your eyes, temporarily, you will be hacked to death, which will make Chinese characters fragmented and wither, like a bird in a fish cage, which will lose its vitality. Why do calligraphers cook when the quality of raw materials is poor?
At this point, the simplification of Chinese characters is inevitably associated with changes. When it comes to change, the heart is as heavy as a stone. Up to now, many people still regard the "simplified Chinese character movement" as a kind of "change", and think that it is natural to bring forth the old and innovate, and to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, completely ignoring the crisis. The so-called change is generally divided into three situations: the first situation refers to the system, value norm or habit that has long been a drawback, and it is changed to make it more reasonable and effective; The second situation refers to the restoration of the banned or replaced system, value norms or habits (some new effects may be obtained); The third situation refers to an unknown teacher's blind change of system, value norms or habits. The first situation is a veritable change; The second situation contains some changes, but it is not a real change; The third situation has nothing to do with change, but a "change". The simplified word "change" belongs to the third case. It's not changing, it's changing, it's changing something that shouldn't be changed. Simplify the complex, seek the simplicity of written communication, seek the popularization of written education by simplicity, make it small, make it complex, make it clear, make it quick, make it late, and do the opposite, which is tantamount to caesarean section, raising soup and stopping boiling. Change often affects the whole body. Even the real change in the first case requires caution and fine-tuning in most cases. Get something for nothing "One or two reforms, ten catties of reaction", even if it is a real change, has considerable reaction, which often leads to unexpected negative consequences, so we should fully consider it and think twice before acting. For another text font