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Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of 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 two thousand years. Until 1956, it was the standard Chinese character used by Chinese people all over the world.
In the history of China, from ancient times to the Western Han Dynasty, there were significant differences between official standard fonts and modern traditional Chinese characters. It was not until the official script prevailing in the Eastern Han Dynasty appeared in the Qin Dynasty that it was closer to the modern traditional Chinese characters. Compared with all kinds of simplified characters used spontaneously by the people, the standardized Chinese characters promulgated by the court through compiling the "character book" have official authority.
However, seal script is still used in the imperial seals and official seals at all levels used in various dynasties after Qin Dynasty. Simplified characters were formulated and implemented in Chinese mainland from 65438 to 0956. Since then, simplified Chinese characters have become the standard Chinese characters in Chinese mainland. Traditional Chinese characters are traditional Chinese characters relative to simplified Chinese characters.
Traditional Chinese character range that can be reserved or used:
1, cultural relics;
2. Variants in surnames;
3. Calligraphy, seal cutting and other works of art;
4. Handwritten inscriptions and signboards;
5, publishing, teaching and scientific research need to use;
6 special circumstances approved by the relevant departments of the State Council.
Chinese characters are one of the oldest writing systems in the world. The sacred script of ancient Egypt and the cuneiform script of Sumerians in the two river basins have been lost, and Chinese characters are still in use. Moreover, Chinese characters are the most populous characters in the world.
At the same time, Chinese characters are aesthetic objects. In the development of thousands of years, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script, running script and other fonts have been produced one after another, and the art of calligraphy, seal cutting and word interpretation has been developed, which has promoted the development of Chinese painting art and made people enjoy great aesthetic and spiritual enjoyment, thus leaving an aesthetic image in people's hearts.
Traditional Chinese is used in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Province Province, Japan and Korea.