Basic word meaning
Tai is pronounced hóng, which means the sound of bells and drums or metal.
Development history
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the oldest mature script in China. From Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, big seal script to small seal script, the font gradually became mainly line symbols, and the font gradually became fixed. Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there have been vulgar characters with fewer strokes. For example, the popular word "Liu" has already appeared in the existing Yuan Dynasty engraving "Water Margin".
The simplification of Chinese characters in modern times can be traced back to the publication of 1909 (the year of Xuantongyuan in Qing Dynasty), which advocated vulgar characters. Lu Feikui published an article "Common Words in General Education" in the inaugural issue. 1 920 February1day, Qian published "Suggestions on Reducing the Stroke of Chinese Characters" in New Youth. 1922, Qian et al. put forward eight principles of simplifying Chinese characters.
2 1 In August, 0935, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China promulgated the first batch of simplified word lists. Received 324 words. 1936 February, the first list of simplified characters was suspended by general order. 1956 65438+1On October 28th, People's Republic of China (PRC) * * and the State Council approved the simplified Chinese characters scheme. The popular simplified characters (simplified characters) are basically based on this. There are 2,235 simplified characters temporarily recognized by the people of China and the government of China.
Chinese characters are one of the oldest writing systems in the world. Ancient Egyptian sacred script and Sumerian cuneiform script in the two river basins have been lost, and Chinese characters are still in use. Moreover, Chinese characters are the most populous characters in the world.
At the same time, Chinese characters are aesthetic objects. In the development of thousands of years, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script, running script and other fonts have been produced one after another, and the art of calligraphy, seal cutting and word interpretation has been developed, which has promoted the development of Chinese painting art and made people enjoy great aesthetic and spiritual enjoyment, thus leaving an aesthetic image in people's hearts.
Traditional Chinese is used in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Province Province, Japan and Korea.