Traditional Chinese characters, also known as traditional Chinese characters, are called regular Chinese characters in the first list of simplified Chinese characters in 1935, and are called traditional Chinese characters in Europe and America. They generally refer to Chinese characters replaced by simplified Chinese characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes refer 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 three thousand years. Until the civil war in China, it was the standard Chinese character used by China people all over the world.
The large-scale Chinese character simplification movement in modern times originated from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In order to improve the literacy rate, imperial seals and official documents have been simplified. During the Republic of China, the government of China promoted simplified characters on a large scale, which was abolished after being strongly opposed by all walks of life. 1956 65438+1On October 28th, the State Council issued the Resolution on Promulgating Simplified Chinese Characters Scheme, and Chinese mainland began to fully implement simplified Chinese characters. In the 1970s, a number of simplified characters appeared, which were later abolished.
At present, traditional Chinese characters are still used in Taiwan Province Province, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region, countries with Chinese cultural circle and overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia. In the case of cultural relics, different surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs, traditional Chinese characters are retained or used in Chinese mainland.
200 1 1 The implementation of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Common Language and Characters clearly stipulates the promotion and standardization of Chinese characters in China, and also clearly stipulates the scope of retaining or using traditional Chinese characters. On June 5th, 20 13, the State Council, China published the List of Chinese Characters for General Specification, including the attached Table of Chinese Characters, Traditional Chinese Characters and Variant Chinese Characters. The use of Chinese characters in general application fields is restricted by the list of specifications.