-Traditional Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters, also known as traditional Chinese characters, are called traditional Chinese characters in Europe and America. Generally speaking, it refers to the Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes it refers to the whole Chinese character regular script and official script writing system before the Chinese character simplification movement. Traditional Chinese characters have a history of nearly 3000 years. Until 1956, it is a standard Chinese character widely used by Chinese people all over the world.
Word decomposition
Complex: complex, complex, simple, complex, noisy. Many: numerous, heavy, complex, frequent, starry, busy, numerous and changeable. Prosperity: lush and prosperous. Biological multiplication of new individuals: reproduction, reproduction, reproduction.
Traditional Chinese characters, that is, the writing system of Chinese characters produced after the evolution of Xiao Zhuan into official script (followed by regular script, running script, cursive script, etc.). ), which has a history of more than 2000 years, has been a common Chinese writing standard for Chinese people all over the world until the 20th century. Since the 1950' s, the people of China and the government of China have simplified the traditional Chinese characters and formed a new Chinese writing standard, namely simplified Chinese.
Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of inherited characters and simplified characters introduced by China people and China government after 1950. At present, simplified Chinese is mainly used in Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia (such as Malaysia and Singapore), while traditional Chinese is mainly used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region of China.
The principles of simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters are "saying without doing" and "progressing steadily by convention", that is, using simplified Chinese characters popular among the people for a long time as far as possible, only making necessary changes, and simplifying them according to the principle of "progressing steadily by convention".
Including two aspects: one is to simplify the number of words and abolish homonym variant forms. 1955, the Ministry of Culture and the China Character Reform Commission published the first list of variant characters, and 1055 variant characters were abolished.
The second is to reduce strokes. 1964, the China Character Reform Commission, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education published a Summary of Simplified Chinese Characters, with 2238 simplified Chinese characters, which simplified the traditional Chinese characters extracted from 16 to 19 to simplified Chinese characters extracted from 8 to 1 1.