1. Traditional Chinese characters, also known as traditional Chinese characters, are called traditional Chinese characters in Europe and America. 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 characters have a history of nearly 3000 years. Until 1956, it is a standard Chinese character widely used by Chinese people all over the world.
2. Traditional Chinese characters, that is, the Chinese character writing system 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, the people of China and the government of China have simplified the traditional Chinese characters and formed a new Chinese writing standard, namely simplified Chinese.
The word "traditional Chinese characters" is only used when a word has simplified Chinese characters. If a Chinese character has no corresponding simplified character, it belongs to the category of inherited characters. However, in some cases, the fonts popular in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are generally called traditional Chinese characters or traditional Chinese. Chinese characters (including simplified characters and non-simplified inherited characters) are generally called simplified characters or simplified Chinese.
4. The principle of simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters is: say without doing, form habits and make steady progress, that is to say, try to use simplified Chinese characters popular among the people for a long time, only collect, sort out and make necessary changes, and simplify them according to the principle of forming habits and making steady progress. Including two aspects: one is to simplify the number of words and abolish homonym variant forms.