At present, traditional Chinese characters are still used in Taiwan Province Province, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region, countries with Chinese cultural circle and overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia. In the case of cultural relics, different surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs, traditional Chinese characters are retained or used in Chinese mainland.
Simplified Chinese characters are officially published simplified Chinese characters, which usually refer to the first set of simplified Chinese characters list, the list of Chinese characters to be used, the summary of simplified Chinese characters, and sometimes the second set of simplified Chinese characters scheme. One simplified Chinese character and two simplified Chinese characters mainly come from ancient Chinese characters, common Chinese characters, variant Chinese characters, cursive characters and liberation characters. There are also some simplified characters that were first seen after the liberation of Chinese characters (1949- 1966), such as the Tibetan simplified character "?" )
The Law on Chinese Characters was passed on June 5438+1October 3 1, 2000, and was formally implemented on New Year's Day of the following year, establishing the legal status of standardizing Chinese characters as a national common language.
Traditional Chinese characters, also known as traditional Chinese characters, are called regular Chinese characters in the first list of simplified Chinese characters in 1935, and are called traditional Chinese characters in Europe and America. They generally refer to Chinese characters replaced by simplified Chinese characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes refer 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 three thousand years. Until 1956, it was a standard Chinese character widely used by Chinese people all over the world.