Traditional Chinese characters still need to be studied and used in teaching, scientific research, publishing, culture, business and other fields. They have unique value in ancient historical and cultural research, calligraphy art creation and other fields, and are still the main characters used in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese society.
In the history of China, from ancient times to the Western Han Dynasty, the official-based font was significantly different from modern traditional Chinese characters, and it was not until the official script prevailing in the Eastern Han Dynasty appeared in the Qin Dynasty that it was closer to modern traditional Chinese characters.
Compared with all kinds of simplified characters spontaneously used by the people, the standardized Chinese characters promulgated by the imperial courts in past dynasties have official authority, but the official seals and official seals at all levels used in various dynasties after Qin Dynasty still use seal script.
Chinese mainland began to formulate and implement simplified characters in 1956. Since then, simplified characters have become the standard Chinese characters in Chinese mainland. Traditional Chinese characters are traditional Chinese characters relative to simplified Chinese characters.
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.
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