traditional Chinese characters
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.
Knowledge expansion:
The principles of simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters are "saying without doing" and "progressing steadily by convention", that is, using simplified Chinese characters popular among the people for a long time as far as possible, only making necessary changes, and simplifying them according to the principle of "progressing steadily by convention".
There are almost100000 Chinese characters in China, so it is impossible to simplify them all. Only some commonly used Chinese characters can be simplified, so uncommon words that are not commonly used have not changed, and even the components of traditional Chinese characters have not been simplified.
People in some areas call for the restoration of some pictographic traditional Chinese characters. They think that traditional Chinese characters are the essence accumulated by China's ancestors for thousands of years, and every word is created after careful consideration, so every word has meaning. However, when simplifying Chinese characters, some traditional Chinese characters that were originally meaningful have been simplified, and simplified characters are not as good as traditional Chinese characters in some aspects.
Some studies have also pointed out that the simplified Chinese characters are not better than the traditional Chinese characters when the human brain processes square characters as a whole. Undeniably, some traditional Chinese characters are richer in sound, form and meaning than simplified Chinese characters, so we should respect them and even carry them forward. For example, "pro" means that relatives want to meet, and simplified characters can't express this emotion.