Traditional Chinese characters, that is, the writing system of Chinese characters produced after the evolution of Xiao Zhuan into official script (followed by regular script, running script, cursive script, etc.). ), which has a history of more than 2000 years, has been a common Chinese writing standard for Chinese people all over the world until the 20th century.
Since the 1950' s, the people of China and the government of China have simplified the traditional Chinese characters and formed a new Chinese writing standard, namely simplified Chinese.
Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of inherited characters and simplified characters introduced by China people and China government after 1950. At present, simplified Chinese is mainly used in Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia (such as Malaysia and Singapore), while traditional Chinese is mainly used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region of China.
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1956 65438+1October 28th, People's Republic of China (PRC) * * and the State Council issued the Resolution on Promulgating Simplified Chinese Characters Scheme, and China began to fully implement simplified Chinese characters.
However, traditional Chinese characters still need to be studied and used in teaching, scientific research, publishing, culture, commerce 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.
200 1 The Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Common Languages and Characters, which came into effect, clearly stipulates that the state promotes the standardization of Chinese characters, and at the same time clarifies the scope in which traditional Chinese characters can be retained or used:
(1) Cultural relics and historic sites;
(2) variations in surnames;
(3) Artistic works such as calligraphy and seal cutting;
(4) Handwritten inscriptions and signboards;
(five) required by publishing, teaching and scientific research;
(six) special circumstances approved by the relevant departments of the State Council.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia _ Traditional Chinese Characters