Traditional Chinese characters, also known as traditional Chinese characters, are called regular Chinese characters in the first list of simplified Chinese characters in 1935, and are called traditional Chinese characters in Europe and America. They generally refer to the Chinese characters replaced by simplified Chinese characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes refer 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 is the standard Chinese characters used by Chinese all over the world.
origin
Traditional Chinese characters, that is, the Chinese writing system that appeared after the evolution of Xiao Zhuan into official script (followed by regular script, running script and cursive script), has a history of more than 2,000 years. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region of China.
history
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is one of the oldest mature scripts in China. From Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, big seal script to small seal script, the font gradually became a line symbol, and the font gradually became fixed.
Chinese characters are one of the oldest writing systems in the world. Ancient Egyptian sacred script and Sumerian cuneiform script in the two river basins have been lost, and Chinese characters are still in use. And Chinese characters are the most populous characters in the world at present.
At the same time, Chinese characters are aesthetic objects. In the development of thousands of years, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script, running script and other fonts have been produced one after another, and the art of calligraphy, seal cutting and word interpretation has been developed, which has promoted the development of Chinese painting art and made people enjoy great aesthetic and spiritual enjoyment, thus leaving an aesthetic image in people's hearts.