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Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "traditional Chinese characters" in European and American countries. 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 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.
A total of 2274 simplified words and 14 simplified word radicals, such as Yi [Yi], Xun [Qi], Yi [Yi], Cheng [Cheng], etc., have been collected in the Summary of Simplified Words, and the sources of simplified words include commonly used words.
Traditional Chinese characters are still used in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and most overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia are traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. In Chinese mainland, in the case of cultural relics, variant surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs, traditional Chinese characters are retained or used.
origin
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. From 65438 to 0950, the people of China and the government of China simplified the traditional Chinese characters, forming a new writing standard for Chinese characters.
Simplified Chinese. Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of inherited characters and simplified characters introduced by China people and the Central People's Government after 1960s. Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia (such as Malaysia and Singapore), while traditional Chinese is mainly used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region of China.
principle
The principles of simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters are "saying without doing" and "progressing steadily by convention", that is, using simplified Chinese characters popular among the people for a long time as far as possible, only making necessary changes, and simplifying them according to the principle of "progressing steadily by convention". Including two aspects: one is to simplify the number of words and abolish homonym variant forms.
1955, China's Ministry of Culture and the Language and Character Reform Commission published the first list of variant characters, and abolished 1055 variant characters. The second is to reduce strokes. 1964, the China Character Reform Commission, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education published a Summary of Simplified Chinese Characters, with 2238 simplified Chinese characters, which simplified the traditional Chinese characters extracted from 16 to 19 to simplified Chinese characters extracted from 8 to 1 1.