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Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of 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 has a history of more than two thousand years. Until 1956, it was the standard Chinese character used by Chinese people all over the world.
Traditional Chinese characters are still used in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and most overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia are traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. In Chinese mainland, in the case of cultural relics, variant surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs, traditional Chinese characters are retained or used.
Traditional Chinese characters, that is, the writing system of Chinese characters produced after Xiao Zhuan evolved into official script, followed by regular script, running script and cursive script. With a history of more than 2000 years, it 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 popularized by the people of China and the Central People's Government since 1990. Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Singapore.
Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region of China. The word "traditional Chinese characters" is only used when a word has simplified Chinese characters. If a Chinese character has no corresponding simplified character, it belongs to the category of inherited characters.
But in fact, the difference between this system and the Chinese characters used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region is not only the difference between simplified Chinese characters and traditional Chinese characters, but also the difference between different variants and glyphs, so the strokes of simplified Chinese characters are not necessarily less; Some strokes are more than the former.
Influenced by writing habits, some Chinese characters in Taiwan Province Province have been merged, but the replaced characters can still be used as variant characters, only a certain term of the word has been replaced. In the history of China, from ancient times to the Western Han Dynasty, there were significant differences between official standard fonts and modern traditional Chinese characters. It was not until the official script prevailing in the Eastern Han Dynasty appeared in the Qin Dynasty that it was closer to the modern traditional Chinese characters.