Traditional Chinese characters
fán tǐ zì
Chinese characters that have been replaced by simplified characters
The Chinese nation is a nation with a long history and cultural tradition The ancient nation has a glorious past, and its past glory mainly depends on Chinese characters - to be precise, it should be handed down one by one through traditional Chinese characters. Traditional Chinese characters are closely linked to historical and cultural traditions. , inseparable. This unbreakable combination gives traditional Chinese characters a special meaning, making them synonymous with ancient Chinese civilization to a certain extent, symbolizing the five thousand years of ancient civilization, the unity of the country, and the unity of the nation. It symbolizes a long and splendid culture.
At the same time, Chinese characters are also objects of aesthetics. In the course of thousands of years of development, various fonts such as oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script have been created successively, and the art of calligraphy and seal cutting have been developed. Art and word-solving games promote the art of traditional Chinese painting and enable people to gain great aesthetic enjoyment and spiritual enjoyment. Therefore, they leave a tall aesthetic image in people's minds and form an aesthetic psychology that is unmatched by other words.
As members of the Chinese community have been influenced by Chinese culture for a long time, in their aesthetic psychology, they have gradually reached the point where they regard Chinese characters, especially traditional Chinese characters, as familiar, beautiful and not strange, while they regard other characters as sparse and strange. , not beautiful. The combination of a symbolic psychology and an aesthetic psychology becomes a huge attraction. It is difficult for people to get rid of the temptation of traditional Chinese characters. Take the seniors who were used to using traditional Chinese characters at first and then switched to simplified characters. When they saw traditional Chinese characters, they felt as happy as old friends reunited after a long separation. Naturally, they would not refuse the use of traditional Chinese characters, just like chopsticks, knives and forks. As for us, we would rather use chopsticks. In addition to habit, there is also an emotional factor. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not to mention the traditional Chinese characters themselves are beautiful!
For the younger generation It is said that they have lived in a highly modern civilization for a long time. It is precisely because they have lived in a highly modern civilization for a long time that the classical beauty exuded by traditional Chinese characters is more attractive. This charm is irresistible to them. Yes, out of their pursuit of beauty, they will unknowingly accept traditional Chinese characters. Of course, not all the current use of traditional Chinese characters stems from the pursuit of beauty. There are also people who try their best to be elegant, but suffer from the inability to recite poems, lyrics and poems like the ancients, so they have to use one or two traditional Chinese characters to show their knowledge. , but this is only a very small number after all.
Secondly, it is related to the art of calligraphy. Language is the carrier of information. While it appeals to human reason, it also has a sense of beauty and appeals to human emotions and feelings of beauty. Chinese calligraphy, which is said to "influence the hands, eyes and minds of future generations", is like this. It is an art of writing, condensing beauty in various forms, from which people can enjoy endless enjoyment and fun. Her influence has spread all over the world and will last forever. There is no writing in the world that has become an artistic object with such high status as Chinese characters. It can be said that as long as Chinese characters exist for one day, as an independent art, her influence will never disappear. This influence of the art of Chinese calligraphy was mainly achieved through the calligraphy of famous figures in the past dynasties, so people imitated it one after another.
At present, the mainland is far less developed economically than Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and many Western countries. With the progress of reform and opening up, a large number of foreign fashionable things have poured into China, and traditional Chinese characters based on Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and some Southeast Asian countries have also re-entered all areas of mainland social life. Driven by strong economic strength and other factors, traditional Chinese characters have gained obvious psychological advantages, so much so that in the minds of some people, it seems that they are no longer native to the mainland, but an imported product exuding a foreign flavor. , just like Chinese pinyin has become foreign language in the minds of some people, it is equally awe-inspiring. Due to Adelaos and various other reasons, Simplified Chinese characters were attacked from both sides. Under attack from both inside and outside, Simplified Chinese characters had to give up some of their positions. Among the many factors leading to the complexity of word usage in current society, this can be said to be the most important one.
Standards
Each region that uses traditional Chinese characters has corresponding standards:
Taiwan: Standards are "Standard Font Table of Commonly Used Chinese Characters", "Less Commonly Used Chinese Characters" Standard Fonts List and Rare Fonts List.
There are some differences between the standard writing method and the traditional writing method in mainland China. "Huang (the character for Tian comes out)" is "Huang (the character for Tian does not come out)" in Taiwan; in Hong Kong it is "bone, with two horizontal lines at the bottom", and in Taiwan it is "bone, with two horizontal lines at the bottom." "Dianti", Mainland China is "Gu"; Hong Kong is "Wei", Taiwan is "Wei" and so on.
Hong Kong: The "Commonly Used Font Form Table" shall prevail. Overall, there are not many differences between Hong Kong and Taiwan. Words such as "carry" all appear to be the same. However, the difference between some characters is more obvious, such as "charge" and "charge", "read" and "read", "里" and "里", "书" and "之", etc. The former is the standard writing method in Hong Kong. The latter is Taiwan's standard writing method.
Mainland China: refer to the "Simplified Character List" and "Xinhua Dictionary" (Traditional Chinese version). Some writing methods are organized similarly to simplified characters, which makes the traditional characters in mainland China somewhat different from those in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and they are not so consistent with the origin of the characters. For example, both Taiwan and Hong Kong use the traditional Chinese characters "Chong", "LV" and "猫" as their traditional Chinese characters, but the traditional Chinese characters in mainland China still have to write the popular "Chong", "LV" and "猫". In addition, the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China formulated the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the National Standard Spoken and Written Language" to promote "standardized Chinese characters." With the approval of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the "Chinese Character Simplification Plan" was announced, indicating that the currently implemented standardized Chinese characters are simplified characters and inherited characters. Traditional Chinese characters are only used in special circumstances - such as writing books on philology, practicing calligraphy, publishing ancient books, etc. Under normal circumstances, traditional Chinese characters are regarded as irregular and unusable Chinese characters