1, Introduction to Traditional Chinese Characters:
Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "traditional Chinese characters" in European and American countries. 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.
2, the origin of traditional Chinese characters:
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 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.
3, the principle of simplification of traditional Chinese characters:
As early as the Song and Yuan Dynasties, a large number of "vulgar characters" appeared, which were sorted out by Yan's "Mannuzu" and Qian's "Simplified Character Spectrum" (1935). In the 1920s-1930s, the then National Government published a simplified list of characters, but this plan was not implemented because of too much controversy.
In 1950s, the new China government published simplified Chinese characters in stages and popularized them in Chinese mainland. In the 1970s, there were two simplified characters, for example, the word "exhibition" was simplified to the word "corpse" and the word "one". Later, both simplified characters were abolished, but there were no simplified characters in Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macau.