Next, let's start a debate on the advantages and disadvantages of simplifying Chinese characters. Please take your positions.
1, Zheng Fang: From Oracle Bone Inscriptions to regular script, Chinese characters have been simplified in the process of evolution. Such as "horse" and "car" Except Chinese mainland, Singapore and Malaysia and other countries are simplifying Chinese characters, which is the general trend.
Counterparty: simplified Chinese characters are not called Chinese characters.
2. Positive: Simplified Chinese characters were for literacy at that time. Simplifying Chinese characters reduces the number of strokes and Chinese characters, thus reducing the difficulty of learning Chinese characters and speeding up the writing speed, which is helpful to popularize education, abolish traditional Chinese characters and facilitate people's communication.
Against: It sounds like Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan people can't read.
Zheng Fang: Then the college entrance examination will be held at the same time. You should study literature, and we should study science.
3. Square: The simplified Chinese characters stipulated by Chinese mainland are basically derived from the writing methods that have been circulated among the people, and some of them are derived from archaism, and they are not created out of thin air. Most people in Chinese mainland who are educated in simplified Chinese characters have no obvious difficulty in understanding traditional Chinese characters.
On the contrary: most mainlanders say that it is obviously difficult to read ancient books directly. Reading simplified characters in ancient books is not satisfactory.
In favor: the state does not prohibit the study of traditional Chinese characters. Chinese mainland's Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House and Zhonghua Book Company specialize in publishing ancient books, which are generally traditional books, so it is easy to find. You can't blame simplified characters just because you can't read ancient books. Moreover, ancient books have always been translated by experts and scholars. If you can't read the classical version, buy the vernacular version. It is necessary to highlight the culture between installation a and C.
4. Square: In computers, mobile phones, PDA and other digital devices, the text size is limited, and the simplified characters are displayed clearly because of their simple strokes.
On the contrary, when the computer processes Chinese characters, the input speed is almost the same whether it is traditional or simplified. Simplified Chinese characters are not necessarily more efficient. About the unclear display, my TV is 75 inches, the whiteboard is 65 inches, and the mobile phone is 6 inches, all of which are big screens and do not exist.
Zheng Fang: Then typing mainly depends on the computer.
Counterparty: It's too corny. Who reads when playing games?
Professor: We have no idea.
The opposing side: It's time to show the real skill!
5. On the contrary, simplified Chinese characters are not conducive to cultural exchanges between Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and other places, and are further out of touch with Chinese characters used in foreign countries such as Japan, resulting in an artificial "writing in different languages".
Pro: At present, there are not many obstacles in communication with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. We communicate with Japan and Singapore in English, although it is not very glorious to use American English.
6. Counterparty: Simplified Chinese characters violate the principle of six-character word-making, but a complete word-making system is not established separately, which greatly weakens the scientific and logical nature of Chinese characters. Many Chinese characters have lost their ideographic structure, which makes it impossible to infer the meaning of words through ideographic structure in the process of learning Chinese. At present, the deduction system of simplified characters is chaotic, and there are often exceptions or inconsistencies in analogy. What words are compared with analogy and what words are not, which is very random. Therefore, the Chinese character system is more complicated and increases the burden on learners.
Agree: Simplified Chinese characters do have incorrect analogies, but it sounds as if you know a traditional Chinese character and you can deduce a long string.
7. Opposing side: the word is polysemy, and after simplification, the glyphs are similar and the phonetic and semantic structures are missing, which makes it difficult to recognize when reading.
Pro: Your handwriting is difficult to write!
Counterparty: From the perspective of calligraphy aesthetics, many simplified characters are not rigorous in design, and at the same time, for scripts such as seal script and official script, the special beauty of the original script is lost after simplification.
Pro: Your handwriting is difficult to write!
On the contrary, when people read Chinese characters on the screen, they don't need to read every stroke carefully, but they can recognize the outline. No matter how complicated and simplified, Chinese characters can't be displayed as little as English letters, so simplified Chinese characters may not have special advantages. On the contrary, simplified Chinese characters produce a large number of similar words, which increases the difficulty of recognition in the small character environment.
Pro: Your handwriting is difficult to write!
Counterparty: it's hard to write that I want to hit someone. Now most of them type on the computer.
8. Counterparty: Many media, such as newspapers and websites, are forced to set up two different versions of complex and simplified versions and/or related tools for converting complex and simplified versions at the same time, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.
Professor: I think we should liberate America. Our periodicals and magazines don't need to be published in English. Save manpower and material resources.
9. Objection: People in Taiwan Province Province say that the ruling party in Chinese mainland simplified Chinese characters and destroyed China culture.
In 1922, the National Language and Character Unified Planning Committee of the Ministry of Education of the Kuomintang government set up the Chinese Character Provincial Committee to formally organize and lead the research on simplified Chinese characters, and through Qian's "Case of Preserving Current Chinese Character Stroke", this case explained the importance of preserving Chinese character strokes for the first time, and described several methods of preserving strokes, all of which had a certain mass base and a history of folk use.
From 65438 to 0935, after more than ten years of academic discussion and preparation, the Kuomintang government issued an order to popularize the first list of simplified characters throughout the country. However, the implementation of watches was quickly opposed by some conservatives. 1936, under the order of the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Education officially issued the instruction of "suspending the implementation of simplified Chinese characters", which marked the premature death of the simplified Chinese character movement in the Republic of China.
1954 10, the China Chinese Character Reform Research Committee submitted the draft Simplified Table of Commonly Used Chinese Characters, which was discussed by many parties and revised four times, to the central authorities for examination and approval, and distributed it to all localities for further examination and preliminary test. In the same year, 10, the China Character Reform Committee was established, which is subordinate to the units directly under the State Council. 1956, the State Council adopted the Simplified Chinese Characters Program and the Resolution on Publishing (Simplified Chinese Characters Program), and began to formally implement the Simplified Chinese Characters Program.
The effect of the first simplified Chinese character movement was outstanding: 2235 Chinese characters were saved from strokes; Eliminate some variant characters; The structure is more reasonable; It is more beautiful in structure, and the differences between glyphs are more prominent. In the literacy experiment, the efficiency of simplified Chinese character literacy is about 20% higher than that of traditional Chinese character literacy.
On the contrary: 1975, the Cultural Reform Commission has drawn up the second simplified scheme of Chinese characters (draft). 1978 In March, the Ministry of Education informed that all textbooks compiled in the country should try out the first word of "Second Construction" and begin to implement "Second Construction".
However, there are many unreasonable places in Erjian: some words are simplified and irregular; Unreasonable annexation of some Chinese characters, starting from 1980, the relevant institutions began to revise "Er Jian" until 1985. But it was abolished by the government when it seemed to be revised and perfected.
1992165438+16 October, the State Council issued "the State Council's Notice on Approving the Request of the State Language Commission for Instructions on Current Language and Writing Work", further clearly pointing out that Chinese characters should be carefully simplified in the future to keep them stable and convenient for social application.
10, counterparty: Why not simplify it?
Founder: We think it's good to simplify it so far. Simplify it again and it will not be called Chinese characters.
Judge 65438 +0: The function of writing is to record and transmit information, from person to person, from the previous generation to the next generation, from Millennium to Millennium. Now is the Internet information age, and great changes have taken place in the transmission of information. Sound, pictures and videos have become important media. As long as you are willing to learn, you can ask Yi Zhongtian, Liang Wendao and other masters to tell us something in ancient books. And words are used for communication, just follow the group. Even if you know four ways to write the word fennel, you only use a simplified fennel word around you. Times have changed, so there is no need to stick to the simplification of Chinese characters. It is said that you can't follow the trend. In this matter, it is better to follow suit. Moreover, there is no doubt that simplified characters are easy to write and recognize, which brings convenience to people.
Judge 1 Supplement: I think the next batch of simplified characters may come again. I think it will be simplified into a magical thing, which can not only convey the meaning, but also vividly express the joys and sorrows of people. We call this thing a watch ~ love ~ bag.
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