For simplified characters, the "General List of Simplified Characters" announced in 1964 and revised in 1986 is the national standard.
Simplified Chinese characters have a long history. Chinese characters have changed from oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions to seal script, and then to official script and regular script.
Regular script began to appear in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, while simplified characters have been seen on inscriptions in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (4th-6th century). During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, simplified characters gradually increased and became quite common among the people, and were called "vulgar characters".
Chinese characters have been in constant change, and simplification has always been the main trend. Oracle, seal script, official script, and regular script all have simplified characters. The earliest relatively mature writing seen today is the oracle bone inscriptions from the Wuding period of the Yin Shang Dynasty (beginning in 1250 BC), dating back to 3259 years ago. Previously, only individual symbols were recognized in the pottery symbols, and a sentence could not be read, so it could not be proved that it was a symbol system or text that recorded language. The Warring States Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties were a period of great change in the form of Chinese characters. Seal script was transformed into official script, and then to regular script, all were completed during this period. The change from ancient seal script to modern official script with Chinese characters is a qualitative leap. Regular script appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the font has stabilized since then. The shape of Chinese characters was finalized in the Han Dynasty and has been used to this day. This is how our writing is called "Chinese characters". It has been used for about 1849 years until now.
The principle of simplicity is a convention. Most of the simplified characters that have been officially implemented since 1956 have existed in ancient times, including Yan Yuansun's "Qianlu Character Book", Liu Fu and Li Jiarui's "Vulgar Character Book since the Song and Yuan Dynasties" (1930), Qian Xuantong's "Simplified Chinese Character Book" "(1935) etc. as evidence. The "Simplified Character List" contains 350 characters in the first list, 132 characters in the second list, and 482 characters in the last list. Someone investigated the origin of 388 characters and found that 111 characters appeared in the Han Dynasty and before (accounting for 28.61%), 55 characters appeared in the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (accounting for 14.17%), and a total of 166 characters appeared in the Tang Dynasty and before. characters (42.78%), 175 characters appeared from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty (45.1%), a total of 341 characters appeared in the Qing Dynasty and before (87.88%), and 46 characters appeared during the Republic of China (11.86%). %), there are 387 characters in the Republic of China and before (accounting for 99.74%), and only 1 character appeared after 1949 (accounting for 0.26%).
Part of the simplified Chinese characters are ancient scripts, some were created by calligraphers, and some were created by the masses. They are all cultural heritage of our country. For a long time, simplified Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters and variant characters have actually existed in parallel. Simplification actually means replacing Traditional Chinese characters with Simplified Chinese characters. In a sense, simplification is the selection of simplified characters based on the spirit of "telling without writing". Originally, both simplified and traditional Chinese characters were used for many characters. People come into contact with simplified characters every day, and they have basically become a common practice. There are many physical connections with traditional Chinese characters, so it is not difficult to learn them. Therefore, the adoption of simplified Chinese characters will not create a cultural gap, and it cannot be said to cut off history at all. Simplified Chinese characters can be used to print ancient books and spread ancient culture. The 2,236 simplified Chinese characters in the plan have an average of 10.3 drawings, and the corresponding 2,259 traditional Chinese characters have an average of 15.6 drawings. Each character is reduced by an average of 5.3 drawings, which improves the clarity of Chinese characters and saves eyesight. The proportion of myopia in mainland China where simplified characters are implemented is lower than that of traditional Chinese characters. Taiwan and Hong Kong, saving the burden of learning and memory, saving the time of writing, embodying people-oriented.
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