The Chinese nation is an ancient nation with a long history and cultural tradition. It has a glorious page in the past, and the glory of the past mainly depends on Chinese characters? To be exact, it should be handed down from traditional Chinese characters one by one, which is closely linked with historical and cultural traditions and inseparable. This unbreakable combination endows traditional Chinese characters with special meanings, which makes them to some extent synonymous with ancient civilization in China, symbolizing the 5,000-year-old civilization, national unity, national unity and a long and splendid culture.
From the point of view of fonts, complexity and simplification clearly started from 1956. Before that, it was mainly traditional, while most French posts were produced before that, so the words compiled in French posts were naturally mainly traditional. In the process of learning calligraphy, people unconsciously inherit traditional Chinese characters while being influenced by art, so that they also write traditional Chinese characters intentionally or unintentionally when writing. Originally, as a calligraphy art, traditional Chinese characters or uncommon Chinese characters with few strokes are beyond reproach, because at this time, they often pay more attention to the formal beauty of Chinese characters and seldom take into account their meaning expression as information carriers. However, under the influence of calligraphy art, some people blindly write some words in traditional Chinese characters, because they only know imitation and copying, and they don't distinguish the current functions of complex and simple words in different occasions.
Chen Zhangtai, president of the China Institute of Applied Linguistics in Beijing and former deputy director of the State Language Committee of China, told the Beijing Morning Post that since 2008, the United Nations has decided to use simplified characters for both traditional characters and simplified characters used by the United Nations.
197 1 After China joined the United Nations in, he promoted simplified Chinese characters in an all-round way, excluding traditional Chinese characters. The relevant provisions of the United Nations on the use of a country's spoken and written language also stipulate that the spoken and written language of each ethnic group should be consistent with the modern spoken and written language of the country where the spoken and written language originated.
Before Taiwan Province Province left the United Nations, all Chinese documents of the United Nations were in traditional Chinese characters. At that time, China encountered many obstacles in promoting simplified Chinese characters, so the United Nations has always been complicated and simplified. However, in recent years, due to the great enhancement of China's political and economic strength, almost all Chinese versions of the United Nations and other international organizations tend to be simplified.
Zhou Youguang, a famous linguist in Chinese mainland who is now 100 years old, pointed out that the United Nations is preparing to change all Chinese documents into simplified Chinese because there is no need to use two fonts. He said that if simplified characters are used, it proves that the direction of simplified characters is right and has been recognized by most people all over the world; At the same time, it also proves that China is becoming more and more influential in the world, and more and more people are learning Chinese in the world. In this case, simplified characters will gradually become the only standard of Chinese.
At present, Chinese communities in China, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong, Macau and North America use traditional Chinese characters, and the number of users is about 30 million. Chinese communities in Chinese mainland, Malaysia, Singapore and Southeast Asia use simplified Chinese, with more than1300 million users. In addition, there are some Chinese characters in Japan and Korea, and simplified characters have only appeared in recent years.