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Traditional Chinese characters refer to Chinese characters with complicated writing forms. Compared with simplified Chinese characters, they have more strokes and more complicated structures. The origin of traditional Chinese characters can be traced back to the evolution of ancient Chinese characters.
After the Qin dynasty unified the six countries, due to the rule of the central government, the popular local characters in some areas were abolished, and the Qin dynasty's small seal script was used as the official text, which was a font that simplified the big seal script. However, after the demise of the Qin Dynasty, with the replacement of dynasties, the calligraphy and fonts of each dynasty developed and changed to some extent.
Most importantly, in the Han Dynasty, influenced by the prosperity of literature and art and Buddhist culture, the form of Chinese characters became more complicated. With the passage of time, Chinese characters entered the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and calligraphers successively created many new fonts and writing methods, forming different calligraphy schools.
Traditional Chinese characters refer to a more complicated and complicated writing form of Chinese characters than simplified Chinese characters. Traditional Chinese characters mainly come from official script, regular script and running script in ancient China, and are widely used in traditional writing methods.
In the folk, due to the writing needs of the masses and the protection of traditional cultural heritage, some more complex glyphs have gradually become popular. Especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties, this trend was more obvious.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties after the Yuan Dynasty, due to the influence of the imperial examination system, people began to pursue the standardization and simplicity of fonts, and traditional Chinese characters were gradually restricted in the official and academic fields. /kloc-after the 1950s, the people of China and the government of China carried out a series of simplified Chinese characters reforms, aiming at simplifying Chinese characters, emphasizing standardization and practicality, and popularizing simplified Chinese characters as we know them today.
The origin of traditional Chinese characters can be attributed to the evolution of dynasties, the influence of cultural exchanges, the creation of calligraphers and people's protection of traditional culture. Although simplified Chinese characters are relatively rare in modern use, they are still widely used and preserved in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong.