1 October 28th, 1956,1,the simplified Chinese character scheme was reviewed by the simplified Chinese character scheme revision committee, adopted at the 23rd plenary meeting, officially published in People's Daily on1October 28th, and implemented nationwide.
Since19th century, the western civilization in a strong position began to enter East Asia, and the whole Chinese character cultural circle countries set off a trend of learning from the West.
Some people insist on the tradition of Chinese characters, while others advocate giving up the use of Chinese characters. The argument that the Chinese character movement should be abandoned is generally called "Chinese character backwardness theory", which has two aspects: one is the bottleneck of publishing and printing technology, and the other is not conducive to learning.
Advantages of simplified characters
1, the beauty of Chinese characters, it has become an art-calligraphy art, and the calligraphy art of Chinese characters is incomparable with any other words. The following ancient calligraphy works have become priceless. There are many famous works, such as Preface to Lanting, Monument to Shengde of Shence Army, Mysterious Pagoda Monument, and Sacrifice to My Nephew.
2. The word-formation ability of Chinese characters or the association ability of Chinese words is very strong, such as English cows, English milk and English beef.
3. The ideographic ability of Chinese characters is relatively strong, which is mainly composed of pictographs and knowing characters in Chinese characters.
4. Poems, songs, jingles and two-part allegorical sayings written in Chinese characters are generally rhyming, which is what people often say. Rhymed words are easier to remember and can be said to be catchy.
5. Chinese calligraphy has a certain decorative art, which is a unique traditional Chinese character art and culture in China.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Simplified Characters.