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The principles of simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters are "saying without doing" and "making steady progress by convention", that is to say, try to use simplified Chinese characters that have been popular among the people for a long time, only collect necessary changes and simplify them according to the principle of "making steady progress by convention". Including two aspects: one is to simplify the number of words and abolish homonym variant forms.
1955, China's Ministry of Culture and the Language and Character Reform Commission published the first list of variant characters, and abolished 1055 variant characters. The second is to reduce strokes. 1964, the China Character Reform Commission, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education published a Summary of Simplified Chinese Characters, with 2238 simplified Chinese characters, which simplified the traditional Chinese characters extracted from 16 to 19 to simplified Chinese characters extracted from 8 to 1 1.
The summary of simplified words * * * contains 2274 simplified words, 14 of which are deviated, such as Yi [Yi], Xun [Qi], Yi [Yi] and Cheng [Cheng].
The Chinese Character List of General Specification adopts the finite analogy simplification method, that is, all the traditional Chinese characters included in the list are simplified by analogy according to the principle stipulated in the Simplified Chinese Character List. For example, the words "you, you, you, you" are simplified to "you, you, you" respectively. Words outside the vocabulary are not simplified by analogy, for example, the analogy of "item" is not simplified to "dragon+horse".
As early as the Song and Yuan Dynasties, a large number of "vulgar characters" appeared, namely, Yan's "Mannuzi Shu", He's "Folk Characters Since Song and Yuan Dynasties" (1930) and Qian's "Simplified Characters" (1935). In the 1920s-1930s, the then National Government published a simplified list of characters, but this plan was not implemented because of too much controversy. In 1950s, the new China government published simplified Chinese characters in stages and popularized them in Chinese mainland.
In the 1970s, a large number of simplified Chinese characters appeared. For example, the word "exhibition" was simplified to the word "corpse" plus the word "one", which was described as "corpses everywhere" by people at that time. These simplified characters have been abolished, but there are no simplified characters in Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macau.