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 has a history of more than three thousand years. Until 1956, it was a standard Chinese character widely used by Chinese people all over the world.
There are two main types of simplification of Chinese characters: one is the simplification of traditional Chinese strokes, such as Yi (traditional Chinese character: Yi), Xun (traditional Chinese character: Xun), Yi (traditional Chinese character: Yi) and Cheng (traditional Chinese character: Zhong).
1In August, 935, the Ministry of Education of the National Government published the first list of simplified Chinese characters, which included 324 popular folk characters, ancient Chinese characters and cursive characters.
However, due to disputes, the first list of simplified characters was withdrawn in February of the following year. The simplified Chinese character scheme and word list, which was officially promulgated and successfully implemented by the government for the first time, was promulgated by China people and the State Council in 1956, and finally a simplified word list was worked out.
At present, Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan still use traditional Chinese characters, while overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia mostly use traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. In Chinese mainland, traditional Chinese characters are preserved or used in the case of cultural relics, surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs.