Traditional Chinese characters, also known as traditional Chinese characters, generally refer to Chinese characters replaced by simplified 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 1956, it is the standard Chinese characters used by Chinese all over the world.
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 General Standardized Chinese Characters, including the schedules of standardized Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters and variant Chinese characters. The use of Chinese characters in general application fields is subject to the Standard Chinese Character List.