In literature and art, the Republic of China also runs through the eager pursuit of democracy and scientific spirit. From the May 4th period, vernacular Chinese began to replace classical Chinese, and exposing and lashing feudal obscurantism became one of the most important themes in China literature and art.
Lu Xun's Scream, The True Story of Ah Q, Sister Xianglin, and Ba Jin's Riptide Trilogy, Home Spring and Autumn, are all classic works that perfectly combine this theme with the vernacular form. This kind of works is called "Enlightenment Literature" in the history of literature.
In addition, the mass language movement in 1930s and the "literature and art of workers, peasants and soldiers" in Yan 'an period were also the direct products of advocating democratic spirit. In press and publication, the pursuit of democratization and scientization is equally strong and persistent.
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"After the simplification of Chinese characters, I can't see my relatives, love is unintentional, I can't have children, I am empty, I have no wheat, I don't have a car, I don't know how to guide, I have no head, I fly on one wing, I have no sex, I don't have a door to open, and I can't hear or speak in a village." It is also a word "love", and its connotation degenerates as soon as I say it.
Another explanation is to simplify the word "wash white". This word game fermented on the internet reflects people's completely different attitudes towards traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters.
Zhao Haoyang, the author of the article refuting the renaming of simplified Chinese characters, published a research post entitled "Why Oppose the Revival of Traditional Chinese Characters" in Zhihu and Douban.
He represents one of the voices-"Have we misread simplified characters? Are you over-interpreting traditional Chinese characters? " Guo Yongbing, an associate professor at the Research Center for Unearthed Documents and Ancient Chinese Characters of Fudan University, said in an interview that the so-called simplified word "love" was written in a way similar to "unintentional" as early as the Northern Wei and Sui Dynasties and was widely used in education as early as the Republic of China.
From ancient times to the present, the basic change direction of Chinese characters from complex to simple is itself determined by the instrumental characteristics of Chinese characters, and it is also an adjustment to adapt to the development of social productive forces.
People's Network-Simplified Chinese character "love" has been widely used in education in the Republic of China. The inscription appeared in the Northern Wei Dynasty.