1. The simplification of Chinese characters is not conducive to the inheritance of 5,000 years of traditional culture in China. After the popularization of simplified characters, many modern China people can't read ancient books directly. Even if ancient books are reprinted in simplified Chinese characters, they often have ambiguity and mislead readers.
2. It is not conducive to the cultural exchange between Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong and Macao, and it is out of touch with the Chinese characters used in foreign countries such as Japan, resulting in an artificial "writing in different languages". In Singapore, Malaysia and other places, the main reason is that the mainland is becoming more and more important in the world, so they adopt simplification. The so-called general trend, and the political power from the China government is still the fundamental reason.
3. Simplifying Chinese characters violates the principle of six-character-making, but it does not establish a complete independent character-making system, which greatly weakens the scientific and logical nature of Chinese characters. Many Chinese characters have lost their ideographic structure, which makes it impossible to infer the meaning of words through ideographic structure in the process of learning Chinese. At present, the deduction system of simplified characters is chaotic, and there are often exceptions or inconsistencies in analogy. What words are compared with analogy and what words are not, which is very random. Therefore, the Chinese character system is more complicated and increases the burden on learners.
4. The development of Chinese characters is more than simplification. For the words "you, you, you, you, longevity, you, you", Oracle Bone Inscriptions only wrote "you", which shows that Chinese characters have been undergoing a process of diversification and have accounted for a lot of proportion in the development of Chinese characters. This is mainly due to the actual needs of distinguishing meaning, and it develops naturally, not forced by political forces. Regular script has been roughly shaped for nearly two thousand years. It is careless and too "taken for granted" to say "simplification" is the main development mode of Chinese characters.
5. From the aesthetic point of view of calligraphy, the design of many simplified characters is not rigorous enough, and at the same time, for scripts such as seal script and official script, the special aesthetic feeling of the original script is lost after simplification.
6. Polysemy, the similarity of simplified glyphs and the lack of sound and meaning structure all make it difficult to recognize when reading.
7. Many media, such as newspapers and websites, are forced to set up two different versions of complex and simplified and/or related complex and simplified conversion tools at the same time, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.
8. In the computer processing of Chinese characters, the input speed is almost the same whether it is traditional or simplified. Simplified Chinese characters are not necessarily more efficient. However, the design of simplified characters and replacement numbers increases the difficulty of computer conversion, which makes the conversion result unsatisfactory.
9. Simplifying Chinese characters is not directly related to eliminating illiteracy. In places where traditional Chinese characters are used, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, the illiteracy rate is much lower than that in Chinese mainland. It can be seen that the focus of literacy work is educational resources and educational policies, rather than simplified characters.
10. Simplified characters created by pictophonetic characters may not be able to shoot various dialects or archaic sounds at the same time, which makes it difficult for people in some areas to understand these simplified characters. For example, the word "Jian" takes the word "Jian" as the phonetic surface, considering the ancient phonetic system and many dialects in various places, simplifying the word "Jian" and taking the word "Jian" as the phonetic surface, only taking care of Putonghua, cutting off the relationship between the phonetic surface and dialects and ancient sounds. When studying the homophonic system of ancient sounds or dialects, simplified characters are often unreliable.