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.
Traditional Chinese characters are still used in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and most overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia are traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. In Chinese mainland, in the case of cultural relics, variant surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs, traditional Chinese characters are retained or used.
Origin:
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. From 65438 to 0950, the people of China and the government of China simplified the traditional Chinese characters, forming a new writing standard for Chinese characters.
Simplified Chinese. Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of inherited characters and simplified characters introduced by China people and the Central People's Government after 1960s. 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.
Development history:
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the oldest mature script in China. From Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, big seal script to small seal script, the font gradually became mainly line symbols, and the font gradually became fixed.
Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there have been vulgar characters with fewer strokes. For example, in the existing Yuan Dynasty engraving "Water Margin", the vulgar word Liu has already appeared.
The simplification of Chinese characters in modern times can be traced back to the publication of 1909 (the year of Xuantongyuan in Qing Dynasty), which advocated vulgar characters. Lu Feikui published an article "Common Words in General Education" in the inaugural issue. 1 920 February1day, Qian published "Suggestions on Reducing the Stroke of Chinese Characters" in New Youth. 1922, Qian et al. put forward eight principles of simplifying Chinese characters.