There are 15 traditional Chinese characters for the cake character. The relevant content is as follows:
1. Origin
Traditional Chinese, Xiaozhuan, evolved into official script (later regular script, running script, The Chinese writing system that emerged after cursive script and other calligraphy) has a history of more than 2,000 years and has been the common Chinese writing standard among Chinese people everywhere until the 20th century.
The term traditional Chinese characters is only used when a character has a simplified character. If a Chinese character does not have a corresponding simplified character, it falls into the category of inherited characters. But at some point, the fonts commonly used in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan will be generally referred to as "Traditional Chinese characters" or "Traditional Chinese";
Some have more strokes than the former, such as the character "Qiang". Affected by writing habits, some Chinese characters have also been merged in Taiwan. However, the substituted character can still be used as a variant, and only a certain character item of the character has been replaced.
Official script is a simplification of seal script, cursive script and running script are simplifications of official script, and simplified characters are a simplification of regular script. However, in the long-term historical development process of Chinese characters, the trend from complexity to simplicity is not a general trend. Seal script is not a descendant of oracle bone inscriptions. Simplification, regular script is not a simplification of official script. In order to make the text record the language more clearly, a large number of differentiated characters were produced.
Reduced-stroke characters in regular script had already appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (4th to 6th centuries), and gradually increased in number after the Tang and Song Dynasties. They were generally commonly used characters with more strokes. Most of these characters were Simplified by the influence of cursive script and running script.
2. History
Oracle bone inscriptions are the oldest mature writing in China. From oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, large seal scripts to small seal scripts, the fonts gradually became mainly line symbols, and the fonts gradually became fixed. .
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."
3. Simplification
The principles for simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters are: "state without writing", "convention and steady progress", that is to say, try to use the traditional Chinese characters that have been popular among the people for a long time. The simplified Chinese characters are only collected, sorted and revised as necessary, and simplified in accordance with the principle of "convention and steady progress".
Including two aspects: First, simplifying the number of characters and abolishing variant characters with homonyms, synonyms and different shapes. In 1955, the Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Character Reform Committee published the "First Batch of Variant Characters List", abolishing 1,055 variant characters.
The second is to reduce strokes. In 1964, the Chinese Character Reform Commission, the Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry of Education published the "General List of Simplified Characters". There were 2,238 simplified characters, and the traditional Chinese characters with an average of 16 to 19 pictures per character were simplified to an average of 8 to 11 pictures per character. abbreviated word.