As we all know, Chinese characters are the most complex characters in the world. In the eyes of foreigners, many strokes of Chinese characters are very weird and complicated, but among Chinese characters, the most weird strokes only have 172 strokes, and there are no characters with 100 million strokes. 100 million paintings is just an exaggerated description by scholars of the complexity of Chinese characters. Chinese characters have a history of nearly 7,000 years, and their development trend is slowly changing from complexity to simplicity. Even in the most complex ancient times, the number of strokes in Chinese characters never exceeded 200. 1. Traditional Chinese characters are too complex
When Chinese characters were first born, people did not have the awareness to create a text to facilitate communication. Instead, they had to create a symbol to facilitate communication in order to solve basic needs. , this symbol is the original text, that is, the early Chinese characters. Early Chinese characters are typical pictographic characters. People can now judge the meaning they want to express through the past characters. This is because the ancients used specific strokes to form specific shapes to represent a material form. They did not have much wisdom. It just requires that the other party can understand it when buying, selling or communicating.
As trade becomes more and more frequent, people’s demand for daily communication is getting higher and higher, more and more substances need to be expressed, and more and more symbols are created by people. In order to distinguish these symbols, and to distinguish the symbols of objects with similar shapes, people created writing. In the past, the strokes of writing were extremely complex and strange at the same time. They were both hieroglyphic and part of modern writing. The characteristics, taken together, seem very difficult to understand. 2. Chinese characters serve people
People’s original intention is to facilitate communication, but the words created in this way are not as conducive to the promotion of communication. With the improvement of the wisdom of the ancients and the development of Chinese civilization, Chinese characters have gradually become simpler. In the last century, the country officially decided to universally implement simplified Chinese characters in the country and eliminate the use of traditional Chinese characters in order to make simpler words more convenient for people's daily life and communication. It can be seen that one of the major characteristics of Chinese characters and the most fundamental purpose of creating Chinese characters is to serve people. People will improve them if they find it inconvenient. Therefore, since the emergence of Chinese characters, the overall trend of their development has been to become simpler and simpler. Calligraphy, derived from words, is one of China's top ten national quintessences.