Introduction of traditional Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "traditional Chinese characters" in European and American countries. Generally speaking, it refers to the Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes it refers to the whole Chinese character regular script and official script writing system 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.
A total of 2274 simplified words and 14 simplified word radicals, such as Yi [Yi], Xun [Qi], Yi [Yi], Cheng [Cheng], etc., have been collected in the Summary of Simplified Words, and the sources of simplified words include commonly used words.
2. History
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is one of the oldest mature scripts in China. From Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, big seal script to small seal script, the font gradually became a line symbol, and the font gradually became fixed.
3. Southern and Northern Dynasties fonts
Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there have been vulgar characters with fewer strokes. For example, the popular word "Liu" has already appeared in the existing Yuan Dynasty engraving "Water Margin".
The simplification of Chinese characters in modern times can be traced back to the publication of 1909 (the year of Xuantongyuan in Qing Dynasty), which advocated vulgar characters. Lu Feikui published an article "Common Words in General Education" in the inaugural issue.
1 920 February1day, Qian published "Suggestions on Reducing the Stroke of Chinese Characters" in New Youth. 1922, Qian et al. put forward eight principles of simplifying Chinese characters.
4. Principles
The principles of simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters are "saying without doing" and "progressing steadily by convention", that is, using simplified Chinese characters popular among the people for a long time as far as possible, only making necessary changes, and simplifying them according to the principle of "progressing steadily by convention". Including two aspects: one is to simplify the number of words and abolish homonym variant forms.