Chinese characters are constantly changing, and simplification has always been the main tendency. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, seal script, official script and regular script all have simplified characters. The earliest mature script we see now is Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the period of Yin Shang and Wu Ding (from 125 BC), which is 3259 years ago. Previously, Wen Tao symbols only recognized individual symbols, but could not read a word, so they could not prove that they were the symbol system or characters of the recording language. The Warring States Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties were the times of great changes in the form of Chinese characters, and it was during this period that seal script became official script and then regular script was completed. The change from ancient seal script to modern Chinese official script is a qualitative leap. Regular script appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and then the font stabilized. The shape of Chinese characters was shaped by the Han Dynasty, and it has been used until today, so our characters are called "Chinese characters", which have been used for about 1849 years.
the principle of simplification is established practice. Since 1956, most of the simplified Chinese characters have existed since ancient times, as evidenced by Yan Yuansun's Ganlu Zishu, Liu Fu's and Li Jiarui's Popular Chinese Characters since Song and Yuan Dynasties (193) and Qian Xuantong's Simplified Chinese Characters (1935). There are 35 words in the first table, 132 words in the second table and ***482 words in the Summary of Simplified Chinese Characters. Some people investigated the source of 388 words, and found that there were 111 words (accounting for 28.61%) before and after the Han Dynasty, 55 words (accounting for 14.17%) from the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty, 166 words (accounting for 42.78%) from the Tang Dynasty and before, 175 words (accounting for 45.1%) from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty and before. There were 46 words (accounting for 11.86%) in the Republic of China, 387 words (accounting for 99.74%) in the Republic of China and before, and only one word (accounting for .26%) appeared after 1949.
Calligraphers and the masses have created and used many simplified Chinese characters, so it is not true to say that simplified characters are not beautiful.
The simplified Chinese characters written by calligraphers are very beautiful. For example:
Regular script copybook: Yu Shinan in Tang Dynasty (? —638) The book "Monument to the Temple of Confucius" contains: shape, meekness, general, Yu, Lai, Sui, Er, Yong, Mai and Ji.
Chu suiliang (? —658) The book "Preface to the Wild Goose Pagoda" contains: Gai, Mi, Jing, Ru, Gang and Sui.
cursive script is an important source of simplified Chinese characters.
the historical tour of the Han dynasty in "Urgent Chapter" includes: time, east, Chen, sun, inspection, account, item, building, coming, clip, cheek, chivalrous person, basket, shell, learning, seeing, doing, faking, being long, being with, appearance, asking, feeling and being happy.
According to the Book of Chunhua Pavilion in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Xizhi (33-361) wrote the following posts: Dong, Qi, Shi, Wei, Myanmar, Pro, End, Zhang, Shi, Jiang, Jian, Dang, Sun, Yang, Shi, Er, Carp, Fish and Harmony.
Wang Xianzhi's posts include: taste, presence, predicate, all, when, ask, pause, promise, er, smell, silence, general, coming, ending, entanglement, rejection, following, door, and, whether, fatigue, kidney, behavior, soup, melancholy, time, classics, transmission and writing.
Wang Xizhi used it in the running script: Yu, Jiang, Sui, Quan, Qi, Who, Wei, Xia, Mian, Jiang, Jie, Gui, Liang, Fang, Yu, Wei, Shu, Xie, defeat, mourning, cover, paper and book.
Ou Yangxun in the Tang Dynasty (557-641) used: Lai, Leap, Yu, Wen, Gai, Wei, Pro, End, Sui, Hidden, General, Xia, Rong, Men, Leisure, Wall, Grain, Gu, Paper, Dispute, Sui, Yun, Interval, Mourning.
Yu Shinan (? -638) used: come, ask, salute, absolutely, dimension.
Su Shi in Song Dynasty (137-111) used the following simplified characters: Gu, Gai, Lai, Fall, Yu, Hunger, Mistake, Convergence, General, Please, Absolutely, Wan, Er, Jia, Wen, Prayer, Xu, Que, Ji, Shi, Cheng, Kua and Na.
in the yuan dynasty, Zhao Mengfu used the following simplified characters (1254-1332): come, give, all, fear, quality, mourning, general, door, pot, set, please, absolutely and disobey.
Simplified Chinese characters used by Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty (1555-1636): Ji, Wei, Jiang, Na, Ji, Yu, Wan, Zheng, Gai, Xiao, Gu, Lou, Fu, Chang, Yu, Wei, Lan, Jin, Shi, Zhu, Pu and Chuan.
in the Qing dynasty, Zheng Banqiao used the following simplified Chinese characters (1693-1765): question, feeling, exhaustion, dream, poem, coming, silk, Miao, Wei, Wei, Liang, Xian, painting, smell, Zhuang, sword, red, rice, Jia, see, language, shape, courage and so on.
some simplified Chinese characters were created by the masses. The common characters in Dunhuang unearthed documents are: love, stumbling, pen, entanglement, dust, insect, bed, purity, ci, broken, falling, er, cover, gu, hanging, country, number, hunger, trace, inheritance, clip, pod, cheek, firmness, inspection, general, crimson, classics.
Some simplified Chinese characters are ancient characters, some are created by calligraphers, and some are created by the masses, all of which are the cultural heritage of our country. For a long time, simplified Chinese characters, traditional orthographic characters and variant characters have actually been parallel. Simplification is actually to replace the traditional Chinese characters with simplified Chinese characters. In a sense, simplification is to select simplified Chinese characters according to the spirit of "telling without doing". Originally, many simplified and traditional Chinese characters were used. People contact simplified Chinese characters every day, which is basically established, and it is not difficult to learn because of its physical connection with traditional Chinese characters. Therefore, the use of simplified Chinese characters will not cause cultural faults, and it is far from cutting off history. Simplified Chinese characters can be used to print ancient books and spread ancient culture. In the scheme, the average number of 2,236 simplified Chinese characters is 1.3, and the corresponding number of 2,259 traditional Chinese characters is 15.6, and each character is reduced by 5.3, which improves the clarity of Chinese characters and saves eyesight. The proportion of myopia in mainland China where simplified Chinese characters are implemented is lower than that in Taiwan Province and Hongkong where traditional Chinese characters are used, which saves the burden of learning and memory, saves the time of writing and embodies people-oriented.
We want to spread the culture of China, which is to spread our thoughts and ideas to the world. Language and writing are a medium and a tool. Fundamentally speaking, writing is a written expression of language. When we develop China culture, we should carry forward our thoughts, not the Chinese characters themselves. Chinese characters are just a tool, a tool to express our thoughts. Therefore, as long as our words can fulfill the function of expressing ideas, there is no difference between simplified and traditional. The only difference is that simplified form is easier to use. Therefore, nature is more conducive to carrying forward Chinese culture.