From the characteristics of Chinese characters and people's physiological habits, because the right hand writes and the left hand holds the book, the stroke order of a word is naturally convenient from top to bottom and from left to right.
If you write from right to left, when writing the left half, the brush will inevitably cover the right half, which is inconvenient to arrange the structure and affects the beauty of the knot. The last stroke of each Chinese character is in the middle or lower right, and the last stroke of the previous word is followed by the beginning of the next word. Vertical writing is more convenient than horizontal writing, and it is more convenient for the consistency of strokes.
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1 95565438+1October1,Guangming Daily changed its typesetting method from "vertical right edition" to "horizontal Zuo Shu". On this day, the newspaper published an article-"Tell readers horizontally for this newspaper", which mentioned that the typesetting method of modern books and newspapers in China needs to be changed.
In fact, as early as four years ago, Mr. Chen Jiageng mentioned "writing Chinese characters horizontally" at the second session of the first session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Guangming Daily took the lead in taking a very important step and fired the first shot for the revision of various newspapers in the next few months. After 1956, the whole country responded to Zuo Shu horizontally.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-East Asian character typesetting
People's Network-People's Daily Overseas Edition