Chinese characters have always been closely related to the characteristics of each era. The emergence, change, writing and use of each character are developing with the times. On the one hand, new Chinese characters have been produced to meet the needs of use. On the other hand, calligraphers are constantly changing strokes for the convenience or beauty of writing. With the development of society, Chinese characters have been continuously screened, and many Chinese characters have been refrigerated due to long-term use; many Chinese characters with many strokes have been replaced by Chinese characters with fewer strokes, or their strokes have been reduced (such as: Cai-cai; Si-峱; Puff - suck).
It can be concluded that no one in ancient and modern times dares to say that he can know all Chinese characters. Even ancient scholars like Xu Shen and Liu Xiang, who are rich in knowledge, feel overwhelmed by the vast number of Chinese characters. If a person is asked to spend his whole life Learning to recognize and remember all Chinese characters is unnecessary and unrealistic. No wonder people wanted to cut out the complex and simplify, and selected 11,100 Chinese characters from the Kangxi Dictionary of 47,035 Chinese characters to compile today's Xinhua Dictionary; but there are only about 7,000 commonly used characters.
The biggest wish we Chinese have for Chinese characters is to let the Chinese language go to the world, so that people all over the world can learn Chinese and understand the Chinese language, so as to know the progress and civilization, friendship and kindness of the Chinese nation... Just imagine if even Chinese people find it difficult to learn, how can the vast majority of people who use Pinyin learn?
Simplicity is the soul of wisdom. The simplification of Chinese characters has brought great convenience to Chinese people's study, life and development, but it is not enough. There are at least three levels of simplification of Chinese characters that can be deepened: The first level is to reduce the strokes of Chinese characters. This aspect is already being done and has achieved good results.
On the second level, Chinese characters should be simplified quantitatively. 1. Collect all Chinese characters that have different synonyms and select a "common character" to replace all the different characters (such as: 芤, onion - the common characters are unified into scallion;); 2. Combine all the meanings of the same character but different synonyms All are juxtaposed and combined with other words to form a phrase, which is used as another meaning of the word; 3. Unify the words with the same word and different pronunciation into one tone according to the standard of Mandarin (such as: saying yue, saying shuo, saying shui is unified as
shuo). On this basis, four different specifications of dictionaries are published: 1. Chinese Character Sea - collects all Chinese characters from ancient to modern times and stores them as classics for reference. 2. Xinhua Mobile Dictionary - includes commonly used characters after the reform; 3. Xinhua Library Dictionary - includes occasionally used characters and characters that have been eliminated during this writing reform; 4. Xinhua Dictionary - based on the existing Xinhua Dictionary, includes Xinhua Mobile Dictionary All words in the dictionary and Xinhua Dictionary.
In the future teaching of characters, primary and secondary education only need to teach the characters in the Xinhua mobile dictionary. Undergraduate education in literature, sociology, and political science in university liberal arts, plus the Xinhua Library Dictionary. In postgraduate education in Chinese literature, master's degree and doctoral education in Chinese literature can also choose to teach characters in the sea of ??Chinese characters.
The third level is to simplify Chinese words. The same words are classified and merged, for example: tudder, tiger--- merged into tiger; lotus, lotus--- merged into lotus...
If you really like poetry, poetry, and classical literature, you might as well learn the Xinhua Library Dictionary by yourself. This will not affect your elegance, nor will most natural science workers waste time and suffer by following you. In fact, truly good literary works are accessible to a wide audience and easy to understand, and almost no authors use unfamiliar and difficult words.
The country’s first priority is to make the people prosperous and the country strong. Democracy, science and the rule of law are the essence of it. Wagging one’s head and babbling about ancient Chinese literature is of no use in modernizing the country. I hope that those who eat the food of their ancestors will not create sins for their descendants again. The times are advancing and the people are making progress. What should be changed must be changed in a drastic way