The traditional Chinese character for Crazy: Crazy.
Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "Traditional Chinese" in European and American countries. They generally refer to Chinese characters that have been replaced by simplified characters during the simplification movement of Chinese characters. Sometimes they also refer to simplified Chinese characters. The entire Chinese regular script and official script writing system before the movement.
Traditional Chinese has a history of more than two thousand years. Until 1956, it was the standard Chinese character commonly used by Chinese people everywhere. Regions that still use traditional Chinese include Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia mostly use both traditional and simplified characters.
Mainland China retains or uses traditional Chinese characters in situations such as cultural relics and historical sites, variations of surnames, calligraphy and seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions, and special needs.
Origin
Traditional Chinese is the Chinese writing system that emerged after Xiaozhuan evolved into official script (and later regular script, running script, cursive script and other calligraphy). It has a history of more than 2,000 years. Until the 20th century, it was the common Chinese writing standard among Chinese people everywhere. Beginning in the 1950s, the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China officially simplified and formed a new Chinese writing standard on the basis of traditional Chinese, namely simplified Chinese.
Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of inherited characters and simplified characters that began to be implemented by the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China after the 1950s. Simplified Chinese is mainly used in mainland China and Southeast Asia (such as Malaysia and Singapore), and Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Taiwan Province of China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Macau Special Administrative Region.
History of development
The simplification of Chinese characters in modern times can be traced back to 1909 (the first year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty) when the "Education Magazine", which advocated common Chinese characters, was founded. Lu Feikui published an article in its first issue, "General Education Should Use Common Chinese Characters." On February 1, 1920, Qian Xuantong published a proposal to reduce the strokes of Chinese characters in New Youth. In 1922, Qian Xuantong and others proposed eight principles for simplifying Chinese characters.