Traditional Chinese characters, also known as traditional 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 three thousand years. Until 1956, it was a standard Chinese character widely used by Chinese people all over the world.
At present, Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan still use traditional Chinese characters, while overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia mostly use traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. In Chinese mainland, traditional Chinese characters are preserved or used in the case of cultural relics, surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs.
200 1 1 The implementation of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Common Language and Characters clearly stipulates the promotion and standardization of Chinese characters in China, and also clearly stipulates the scope of retaining or using traditional Chinese characters. On June 5th, 20 13, the State Council, China published the List of General Standardized Chinese Characters, including schedules of standardized Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters and variant Chinese characters. The use of Chinese characters in general application fields is subject to the Standard Chinese Character List.