Traditional Chinese characters are introduced as follows:
Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "traditional Chinese characters" in Europe and America, generally referring to Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement.
Sometimes it also refers to the whole writing system of regular script and official script before the Chinese character simplification movement. Traditional Chinese has a history of more than two thousand years. Until 1956, it was the standard Chinese character used by Chinese people all over the world.
The scope of use of traditional Chinese characters is as follows:
Traditional Chinese characters are still used in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and most overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia are traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. In Chinese mainland, traditional Chinese characters are preserved or used in the case of cultural relics, surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs.
The origin of Chinese medicine is introduced as follows:
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 the Central People's Government after 1960s. 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.