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 development of traditional Chinese characters 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, based on the simplification of traditional Chinese, a new Chinese writing standard, namely simplified Chinese, has been formed.
The changes of traditional Chinese characters are introduced as follows:
In the history of China, from ancient times to the Western Han Dynasty, there were significant differences between the 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. Simplified characters were formulated and implemented in Chinese mainland from 65438 to 0956. Since then, simplified Chinese characters have become the standard Chinese characters in Chinese mainland. Traditional Chinese characters are traditional Chinese characters relative to simplified Chinese characters.
Official script is the simplification of official script, cursive script and running script are the simplification of official script, and simplified characters are the simplification of regular script. However, in the long-term historical development process, it is not the general trend for Chinese characters to simplify from complexity. Official script is not the simplification of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and regular script is not the simplification of official script. In order to record the language more clearly, people use more glyphs to share the recording function of words.