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Traditional Chinese characters, also known as traditional Chinese characters, are called traditional Chinese characters in Europe and America. Chinese) refers to the Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes refers to the whole Chinese character regular script and official script writing system before the Chinese character simplification movement. Traditional Chinese characters have a history of nearly 3000 years. Until 1956, it is a standard Chinese character widely used by Chinese people all over the world.
Traditional Chinese characters, that is, the writing system of Chinese characters produced after the evolution of Xiao Zhuan into official script (followed by regular script, running script, cursive script, etc.). ), which has a history of more than 2000 years, has been a common Chinese writing standard for Chinese people all over the world until the 20th century. Since the 1950' s, the people of China and the government of China have simplified the traditional Chinese characters and formed a new Chinese writing standard, namely simplified Chinese.
Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of inherited characters and simplified characters introduced by China people and China government after 1950. At present, simplified Chinese is mainly used in Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia (such as Malaysia and Singapore), while traditional Chinese is mainly used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region of China.
In the history of China, from ancient times to the Western Han Dynasty, there were significant differences between official standard fonts and modern traditional Chinese characters. It was not until the official script prevailing in the Eastern Han Dynasty appeared in the Qin Dynasty that it was closer to the modern traditional Chinese characters. Compared with all kinds of simplified characters used spontaneously by the people, the standardized Chinese characters promulgated by the court through compiling the "character book" have official authority.
However, seal script is still used in the imperial seals and official seals at all levels used in various dynasties after Qin Dynasty. Chinese mainland began to formulate and implement simplified characters in 1956. Since then, simplified characters have become the standard Chinese characters in Chinese mainland. Traditional Chinese characters are traditional Chinese characters relative to simplified Chinese characters.
Official script is the simplification of official script, cursive script and running script are the simplification of official script, and simplified characters are the simplification of regular script. However, in the long-term historical development process, it is not the general trend for Chinese characters to simplify from complexity. Official script is not the simplification of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and regular script is not the simplification of official script. In order to record the language more clearly, people share the recording function of words with more glyphs, resulting in a large number of differentiated words.