As shown in the picture are common traditional Chinese characters.
Traditional Chinese characters are closely linked to history and culture and cannot be separated. This combination gives traditional Chinese characters a special meaning, making them synonymous with ancient Chinese civilization to a certain extent, symbolizing the five thousand years of ancient civilization, the unity of the country, and the unity of the nation. culture.
When the United Nations was established in 1945, according to the United Nations Charter, Chinese and five other languages, English, French, Russian and Spanish, were the official languages ??of the United Nations. In 1973, Chinese was designated as the working language of the United Nations. In the 1970s, after the People's Republic of China regained its legal seat in the United Nations, the official Chinese documents of the United Nations were "automatically" changed from traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese. Only the original historical documents remained in traditional Chinese.
Because traditional Chinese characters have a history of thousands of years, they still have great influence not only in China, but also in countries surrounding China. The complementarity of simplified and traditional characters is the law of evolution of Chinese characters. The ancient Chinese character we know today is oracle bone script, which has the simplest strokes. However, by the time of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, many characters in the bronze script were complicated. The Xiaozhuan script of the Qin Dynasty was more complicated than the characters of the Six Kingdoms. After that, the official script had a trend of simplification. Later, the Tang Kai script, the traditional script and the simplified script were finally stabilized. Some countries in the world that use Chinese characters have also simplified Chinese characters. For example, Japan has long had its own simplified characters (Japanese New Font), and the new font is mainly used in daily life in Japan. However, the Japanese government has not announced the abolition of the old font. In many situations such as proper nouns, the old font can still be used. The Singapore Ministry of Education promulgated the "Simplified Chinese Character List" in 1969 and began to officially implement simplified Chinese characters. Of course, traditional Chinese characters also have their irreplaceable status, such as in calligraphy. More importantly, traditional Chinese characters are a record of the evolution of Chinese characters. If traditional Chinese characters disappear completely, a link in the evolutionary chain of Chinese characters will be missing.