Who proposed changing Chinese characters to simplified Chinese characters, and what is the intention

In fact, the simplified Chinese characters have been recorded in the written records left by the Tang Dynasty, and the key is that after the establishment of the Republic, it was confirmed in the form of law. From the guiding ideology of the time, this was to make it"Working people"Ability to grasp culture. Judging from the current situation of education and popularization, simplifying Chinese characters can be said to be unnecessary, and if you look at the systematic nature of Chinese characters, it is simply causing confusion.

Moreover, for reading ancient books, it is also necessary to know traditional Chinese characters, which can be seen that it increases the burden! View the original post

This Jin Xinwei has this thing. I think it is extremely wrong to simplify the Chinese characters View the original post

Chinese characters are better than simple, and it's rare for me to write such a complex traditional Chinese View the original post

The reasons why it is said that the evolution of Chinese characters is in the direction of Jianheqiao, Zhonghua and easy to write are as follows:

As a tool for communication, simplification is a trend, because simplicity and ease of writing can improve work efficiency and facilitate communicative learning. Judging from the history of development, it is also the case, Chinese characters from the earliest oracle bone inscription.

The shape is uneven, the size is different, and there are many variant characters.

to Jinwen. The shape is more square and symmetrical than the oracle bone inscription, the seal script glyph is more neat than the gold script, the strokes are uniform, and the variant characters are greatly reduced. There are also later official scripts, which basically get rid of the characteristics of ancient characters and pictograms, and the glyphs are regular. To the regular script, the shape of the glyph is square, the writing is convenient, the ancient Kuanyun Wenchan Mountain is very complicated in the past, and the modern Chinese characters are much simpler; from pictorial hieroglyphs.

Gradually become non-pictographic writing symbols; The shape of the pen has gradually changed from painting-like lines to horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, dot and fold strokes; The structure and strokes of many characters are gradually simplified; The oracle bone inscription and the gold inscription are variously numerous, and the small seal is small.

The number of variant characters in official script and regular script has decreased.

The influence of Chinese characters.

Chinese characters are by far the longest continuously used script, and they are the only inheritors of the major writing systems of antiquity, and Chinese characters have been the main official script in all Chinese dynasties.

In ancient times, Chinese characters also served as the region of East Asia.

The only international exchange language, before the 20th century, was still Japan and the Korean Peninsula.

Vietnam, Ryukyu.

and other official written scripts, and all East Asian countries have created their own Chinese characters to a certain extent. Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and other countries have been deeply influenced by Han culture throughout history, and even other languages have borrowed Chinese language and writing.

It shows that the leaders and experts at all levels at that time had foresight, and they knew for a long time that the country would become like this!Simplification makes sense:

The form of Chinese characters is developing in the direction of simplicity and ease of writing, which is mainly manifested in four aspects:

1 From pictorial hieroglyphs.

It gradually became a non-pictographic writing symbol, such as "fish, bird", and the ancient characters looked like fish and birds, but now they are not like them.

2 The shape of the brush gradually changed from painting-like lines to horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, dot, and fold strokes.

3 The structure and strokes of many characters are gradually simplified, such as "book" in the small seal.

The middle is a morphophonetic character from the sound of the voice, and now it has become a cursive italized single character.

4 Oracle.

There are many variants in Jinwendu, and the variant characters of small seals, official scripts, and regular scripts have decreased.

Question 1: Simplified Chinese characters are accumulated over a long period of time, not the invention of a single person, and some simplified Chinese characters have existed since the Spring and Autumn Period.

Question 2: In order to improve the literacy rate.

The modern Chinese character simplification movement originated in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and in order to improve the literacy rate, simplified characters were written on the jade seals and official documents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The vernacular movement of the May Fourth Movement is well known, and in fact, the movement of text simplification should be compared to the vernacular movement, since both are part of the New Culture Movement.

In 1922, Lu Feikui published the ** "Opinions on Sorting Out Chinese Characters", suggesting the use of simplified characters that have become popular among the people, and simplifying other characters with many strokes.

In 1923, Hu Shi said in the "Header" of the Chinese Monthly Chinese Character Reform Issue: "The Chinese people have not only made a very amazing grammatical innovation, but they have also done an equally amazing innovation: that is, a great reform in the form of Chinese characters, that is, "the creation and promotion of broken characters."

The scholar's suggestion attracted the attention of Chiang Kai-shek. He approached Wang Shijie, the minister of education, to ask about the feasibility of simplifying Chinese characters.

Jianxiu characters were only created after the founding of the People's Republic of China, mainly for easy writing and recognition.

The simplified characters are not the creation of any one person, but because the traditional characters have affected the writing and the dissemination of information, the simplified characters are used.

In 1922, Lu Feikui published the ** "Opinions on Sorting Out Chinese Characters", suggesting the use of simplified Chinese characters that have become popular among the people;In 1922, Qian Xuantong proposed at the Preparatory Committee for the Unification of the Chinese Language "Stroke Reduction Case for the Current Chinese Characters", which is actually the basis for the production of the current simplified Chinese characters, and has a far-reaching influenceIn 1928, Hu Huaichen published "Simple Words", which included more than 300 simplified characters; In 1934, the China Library Service published Du Dingyou's "Standard Character List of Simplified Characters", which included 353 simplified characters; In 1935, Qian Xuantong presided over the compilation of the draft of "Simplified Chinese Characters", which collected more than 2,400 simplified characters; In October 1936, Rong Geng's "Simplified Chinese Dictionary" was published, with a collection of 4445 characters; In November of the same year, Chen Guangyao published the "List of Commonly Used Simplified Characters", which included 3,150 words; In 1937, the Font Research Society of the Peking Research Institute published the first table of the "Simplified Chinese Character List", which collected 1,700 characters; In 1951, the first batch of simplified Chinese characters was drafted, with 555 characters; At the end of 1954, on the basis of the "First Batch of Simplified Chinese Character Lists", the Cultural Reform Commission drafted the "Draft Scheme for Simplifying Chinese Characters", which included 798 characters, simplified 56 partial characters, and abolished 400 variant characters; In October 1955, a national conference on character reform was held to discuss and approve the "Draft Amendment to the Simplified Plan for Chinese Characters", which reduced the number of characters to 515 and the number of simplified characters to 54. On January 28, 1956, the "Chinese Character Simplification Plan" was reviewed and approved by the Chinese Character Simplification Plan Review Committee, adopted by the 23rd meeting of the Plenary Meeting, and officially announced on the 31st in the "People's **" and implemented throughout the country. In May 1964, the Cultural Reform Commission published the "General List of Simplified Characters", which is divided into three tables: the first table is 352 simplified words that are not used as marginals, the second table is 132 simplified words and 14 simplified characters that can be used as marginals, and the third table is 1754 simplified words by analogy; A total of 2,238 characters (due to the repetition of the words "sign" and "must", it is actually 2,236 words), which is the standard of words used in Chinese mainland today.

Let's just say that in that chaotic era, there were many people who could not keep up with the learned people, and used a simplified form of Chinese characters to promote their influence among the people. Traditional Chinese strokes are more complex, and compared with simplified Chinese characters, it is difficult for people to accept them. Simplified Chinese characters are the product of certain struggles.

First, most of the simplified characters are words that have appeared for a long time, such as hui, which has existed since ancient times. It's just that after simplifying, a few words with "Hui" are simplified into "Hui". Some traditional Chinese characters are difficult to remember, such as Shudayhua (书昼画), Xingheyu (兴和宇), Xingxiong (态熊), Yixi (Yixi), and Ye Cong (業Cong).

Such complex and similar words make people have a headache when they read it.

This is also the reason why there were very few people who read books in ancient times, and most of them were illiterate.

Everyone is entitled to education.

Simplified Chinese characters are the logical result of the evolution of Chinese characters. Chinese characters changed from oracle bone inscription and golden script to seal script, and then to official script

The general trend of regular script is to change from complex to simple. Lishu is a simplification of seal script, cursive script and line script are simplifications of Lishu, and simplified Chinese characters are the simplification of regular script. Regular script began to appear in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and simplified characters have been found in the Northern and Southern Dynasties (

century), to the Sui and Tang dynasties, simplified characters gradually increased, quite common among the people, known as "vulgar characters."

Many of the simplified characters we use today began to appear at this time, such as "camp" and "longevity".

End", "Enemy", "Succession", "Candle", "Zhuang", "Qi", "Yuan", "Lou", "Gu".

Offering", "changing", "lamp", "grave", "donkey", etc. Yan Yuansun of the Tang Dynasty wrote "The Book of Ganlu Characters".

and Wang Ren's Japanese sentence "Publishing Fallacies and Filling Gaps and Cutting Rhymes", both of which contain a lot of vulgar characters. After the Song Dynasty, it was printed.

With the invention of the technique, simplified characters were transferred from inscriptions and handwriting to engraving and printing books, thus expanding the popularity of simplified characters.

range, the number has increased considerably. According to the "Song and Yuan Dynasty Folk Character Genealogy", it was used in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

There are as many as one simplified Chinese characters, which are combined into a total of traditional Chinese characters, with an average of one for each traditional Chinese character.

Different simplified characters, which are exactly the same as the simplified characters used today, are "real", "treasure", "listen", and "wan".

"Li", "Old", "And", "Zhuang", "Dream", "Although", "Medicine", "Yang", "Phoenix".

"Voice", "Righteousness", "Chaos", "Taiwan", "Party", "Return", "Office", "Resignation", "Break".

"Luo", "Hui", "Pity", "Huai" and so on.

The Chinese Character Reform Research Committee promulgated the "Chinese Character Simplification Plan", the specific way:

The original glyph outline is retained. For example, "turtle" is a mountain laughing "turtle", and "worry" is "worry".

The characteristic parts of the original character are retained and the others are omitted. For example, "sound" is "sound", and "doctor" is "medicine";

Changed the notes with simpler strokes. For example, "support" is "support", and "war" is "war";

Another new shape and sound character. For example, "surprise" is only "surprise", "protection" is "protection";

Homophonic substitution. For example, "li" instead of "li", "inside", "ugly" instead of "ugly";

Cursive italization. For example, "specialized" is "specialized", and "east" is "east";

Knowing. For example, "many" is "many", "from" is "from";

Replace complex offsides with simple notations. For example, "chicken" is "chicken", "huan" is "happy", and "difficult" is "difficult";

Use an old font. Such as "dust" as "dust" and so on.

China's mainland has been using simplified characters since 1956 in accordance with the regulations.

Now we generally use the 1986 re-issued "Simplified Character Shouting Nuclear General List" (referred to as the "General Table"), the "General Table" has been promulgated twice, once in 1964, the Cultural Revolution has launched the "Second Chinese Character Simplification Plan", but it was soon opposed, so in June 1986, *** announced that the "two simplified characters" were no longer used. Today's "General List" contains a total of 2,235 words.

Simplified Chinese characters are the logical result of the evolution of Chinese characters. Chinese characters have changed from oracle bone inscription and golden script to seal script, and then to official script and regular script, and the general trend is to change from complex to simple. Lishu is a simplification of seal script, cursive script, line script is a simplification of Lishu, and simplified Chinese characters are the simplification of regular script.