This is a witness to the historical evolution of writing.
It is the continuation and summary of ancient Chinese character culture in China.
More profound than simplified Chinese characters. China's writing is extensive and profound, and the composition of the writing itself has implications and historical traces.
Inherited China culture and communication, and inherited the beauty of China characters.
Foreigners only have letters, while China people's writing has rich font changes and literal meanings. Traditional Chinese characters reflect the essence of China ancient culture.
Simplification of Chinese characters is not only to reduce strokes, but also to delete and merge a large number of original characters, which directly leads to the proliferation of polysemy, and the glyphs and meanings of many words are completely irrelevant. Traditional Chinese characters have unique meanings, and their glyphs and meanings are matched, which are beautiful and practical.
Before simplification, Chinese characters were ideographic, each word had its origin, and each word had its detailed evolution process, including pictographic characters and comprehensible characters. After simplification, the historical origin of the characters is abandoned, and the simplicity is directly emphasized, which greatly reduces the cultural color of the characters but greatly increases their usability. However, traditional Chinese characters have a strong cultural color, which directly represents the characteristics of our China culture.
Advantages and characteristics of traditional Chinese characters:
1, traditional Chinese characters conform to the six-character principle, and a complete word-making system is established, which greatly increases the scientificity and logicality of Chinese characters. Many Chinese characters have ideographic structures, which increases the learning ways of inferring the meaning of words with ideographic structures in the process of learning Chinese characters. As a result, the Chinese character system is more excellent.
2. Traditional Chinese characters can be combined with various dialects or archaic sounds, so that people in some areas can understand them. Phonetic radicals are related to dialects and ancient sounds.
3. In Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, where traditional Chinese characters are used, the illiteracy rate is much lower than that in Chinese mainland.
4. It is conducive to cultural exchanges in Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong and Macao, and further contacts with Chinese characters used in foreign countries such as Japan.
5. Traditional Chinese characters are conducive to the inheritance of China's 5,000-year-old traditional culture. Many modern China people can read ancient books directly if they know traditional Chinese characters.
6. Traditional Chinese characters have a good sound and meaning structure.
7. Traditional Chinese characters are rigorous from the aesthetic point of view of calligraphy, and have a special aesthetic feeling for calligraphy such as seal script and official script.
8. The simplification process has always been carried out in Chinese characters, which accounts for a large proportion in the development of Chinese characters. This is mainly to distinguish the practical needs of meaning, and naturally developed.
9. Traditional Chinese characters are suitable for China traditional culture lovers. China has some loyal supporters of traditional Chinese characters, lovers of ancient literature and history.
One issue of Motto was devoted to this issue, which was the ninth issue in 2009.
1, Chinese characters are hieroglyphics, and its root is that reading characters produces meaning. Traditional Chinese characters evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions. After more than 2000 years of use and development, they have been very stable, standardized and have a perfect radical system structure. It not only keeps the characteristics of finding the meaning of words, but also is easier to identify than before Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Biography.
2. Simplified Chinese characters are simplified from traditional Chinese characters, but they have largely lost their meaning. For example, the simplified character "Ma" and the traditional character "Ma" are obviously more vivid and pictographic.
3. In reading: Because simplified Chinese characters are simplified from traditional Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters can be recognized basically. For example, in the fourth grade of primary school, I have finished reading traditional versions of martial arts novels such as "Seven Swords Down the Tianshan Mountains" and "Three Women in the Jianghu", which is not a problem for smarter children now. If there had been a professor of traditional Chinese characters, it would not have been a problem.
4. Cognition: Because simplification loses some features of traditional Chinese characters, many simplified Chinese characters look very similar, which is not conducive to distinguishing, such as "outside", "at work" and "at rest", while their original traditional Chinese characters are easier to distinguish. Chinese characters are hieroglyphics and graphic characters, and each Chinese character is a graphic. We all have the experience that it takes a long time to distinguish between two graphs with little difference, and it takes less time to distinguish between two graphs with great difference. For example, "body rest", the eyes need to stay a little longer under the wooden word to identify whether it is "body rest" or "body rest", and "body rest" is clear at a glance. These words are often confused by primary school students in Chinese mainland. Simplified Chinese characters add many similar Chinese characters, which increases the reading time (that is, the origin of "simplified Chinese characters are difficult to recognize, traditional Chinese characters are easy to recognize" once said by Master Li Ao). This makes the process of learning Chinese characters confusing. So reading traditional Chinese characters is faster.
5. In teaching: For children, there is no difference between the time needed to know "horse" and the time needed to know "horse", which is consistent with our cognition and difference when we look at a figure with five strokes and a figure with 10 strokes.
6. Writing: Simplified Chinese characters are easier to write than traditional Chinese characters, which is the purpose of simplifying Chinese characters. However, in the information age, more and more characters are input by computers. For the latter, there is no difference between the time and storage space required for inputting simplified Chinese characters and traditional Chinese characters.
7. Communication: Traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters are just different in shape and have exactly the same pronunciation. Therefore, if people communicate with their mouths and ears, there will be no obstacles.
8. Some people say that to restore traditional Chinese characters, it is better to restore Oracle Bone Inscriptions. That's enough. Because traditional Chinese characters are standard characters with complete radical system structure, there are both connections and differences between them, which shortens the learning time and process of Chinese characters. Oracle Bone Inscriptions and others are nonstandard words, almost every word is different, and the same word is written by different people.
9. Similarly, some people advocate that Chinese characters should be further simplified into pinyin characters, which is even more undesirable. In this way, the pictographic features of Chinese characters are completely lost, and only the radicals are left (look at the Japanese katakana "ァィェォ", isn't it so simplified? Can you see its meaning from these simple radicals? Because of this, a large number of Chinese characters are mixed in Japanese now, just to make up for it, and even become pinyin.