Why did the two simplified characters in Chinese history die in only nine years?

Because it's so "simple", it's so simple that no one can understand it. This "no one can understand" does not refer to the general public, but to all the people in the country, even those university scholars are helpless against the so-called "two simplified characters". To put it bluntly, the so-called "two simplified characters" are actually a deformed product of the oversimplification of Chinese characters, so they are bound to fail.

In modern times, people use "Yi Jian Zi", that is, Chinese characters that have been preliminarily simplified. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, people bitterly believed that the reason why China was beaten by the Western powers was because the ancient feudal culture tree had decayed from the roots, had become a drag on the Chinese, and was no longer suitable for the current social and cultural development needs. If people want to progress and catch up with the world, they must completely abandon this towering tree that has rotted.

At that time, all Chinese science came from learning from the West, and this learning was all-encompassing, including writing. At that time, Latin was more popular in the West, and many Chinese returned from the West thinking that if there was a change, they should change it from the root, and completely uproot this feudal cultural tree. Writing is the foundation of culture, and if people want to learn culture, they must first learn writing, so the reform of writing came out.

The ancient traditional Chinese characters not only represented the ancient feudal culture in that era, but also were very difficult to learn. As we all know, today, Chinese characters are recognized as the most difficult script to learn in the world. However, traditional Chinese characters are even more difficult to learn than today's simplified characters, and their difficulty is multiplied exponentially.

This difficulty makes the road to popularizing culture in China very difficult. So the text began to be simplified, and the "one simple character" appeared, that is, the words used now, of course, there are still some differences between the current and the original "one simple character". Later, the "two simplified characters" were carried out, but unfortunately at this time, the "one simplified characters" had not been completely popularized, and people were still in the stage of adaptation, and the result of the reform of the "two simplified characters" was that people did not know the words.

Because of the big changes, those great literati and scholars were unfamiliar with the words in front of them, so the pace of writing implementation not only did not speed up, but came to a standstill. So in the end, he "died".

Because the "two simplified characters" are too hard to simplify, resulting in a look very similar to Japanese characters, many Chinese cannot understand and are not easy to recognize, which also violates the original intention of simplifying Chinese characters, and is naturally abolished.

Because there was one simplified character before, most of the people were very easy to understand and very easy to learn, but after the second simplified word, it was different, and it was very difficult to understand, so it was not suitable for the majority of people to learn.

Because the two simplified characters look a bit similar to Japanese, the older generation of literate people definitely don't want our characters to be similar to Japanese.

Because the sinicization of the two simplified characters is too strong, it loses the beauty of Chinese characters, and it also brings a lot of inconvenience to communication.

Because the two abbreviations have brought adverse effects. Analysis: In some places, "two simplified characters" have become teaching words, so they have left a deep impression on some students.

All these reasons have caused some of the "two simplified characters" to remain in society. However, because the characters are so simplified that they are difficult to read, people are often full of doubts when they read the newspapers and periodicals of the trial period.

At the same time, because the original strokes and components of Chinese characters have been greatly reduced in the "Erjian Characters", people think that Chinese characters can be written in the same way, and the trend of making their own and indiscriminately creating simplified characters has once again prevailed. This is also the undesirable effect of the two abbreviations.

The principles proposed are:First, the main selection of popular simplified characters among the masses, and at the same time according to the law of the masses to simplify Chinese characters, appropriately prepare some new simplified characters.

Second, from the perspective of facilitating the current application, we should focus on simplifying the more commonly used Chinese characters.

3. While simplifying the shape of Chinese characters, the number of Chinese characters should be simplified.

The so-called "two simplified characters", the full name is "the second simplification of Chinese characters", which is a non-standard simplified writing form of Chinese characters that China tried in the seventies and eighties of the last century. However, not long after the trial, it was gradually discontinued due to the confusion in use and the influence of the political atmosphere after the end of the "Cultural Revolution" at that time, and it was completely abolished in 1986, and it was implemented for a total of 9 years.

Erjian is a Chinese character innovation that emerged in the 50s. Although it is much simpler than traditional Chinese characters, it is unreasonably simplified and does not conform to the ** of Chinese characters. So after nine years of persistence, he officially withdrew from the stage of history. However, it has helped to promote the regular simplified Chinese characters.

Simplify too many fonts. Experts believe that the two simplified characters have no beauty, the essence of the Chinese characters has also been reduced, and the two simplified characters that have been changed too much are more like Japanese than Chinese, so they have been abolished.

Causes

Some experts believe that the two simplified words.

The oversimplification of the glyphs of Chinese characters makes it convenient for people to read, but they lose the beauty and essence of Chinese characters. Even in a certain period, there is a certain amount of confusion. And in Japan, which was a neighbor of our country at the time, they used katakana.

In fact, a large part of it is extracted from Chinese characters, and the appearance of the two simplified characters is more like Japanese characters. It is precisely because of this that the "two simplified characters" were finally abandoned.

Impact

Since the 70s of the 20th century China **.

The "two simplified characters" release and publicity efforts are strong, and at that time has involved many aspects of social life, including the use of "two simplified characters" in newspapers and periodicals, plus the "two simplified characters" have few strokes, simple writing, easy to popular, and have been very extensive in the society at that time.

Moreover, in some places, "two simplified characters" have become teaching words, so they have left a deep impression on some students. All these reasons have caused some of the "two simplified characters" to remain in society. The dynamic reading rate of the two simplified characters is 96%, and people who have not learned the two simplified characters can also read the two simplified characters in context.

Because some of the simplified words copied in the "two simplifications" are not mature enough, many words are only popular in one region and one industry, "about" but not "determined", "vulgar" but not "completed", and the trial steps are too hurried, and many words are simplified unreasonably, which has been criticized by many people, so the trial was stopped in less than a year and transferred to the stage of discussion and revision, but after many years, the case has still not been finalized.

Although some of the simplified characters in the "Second Jane" are more reasonable and have a positive effect on literacy teaching, the official announcement of this batch of new simplified characters will cause many difficulties to publications, especially dictionaries, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the Chinese character database of electronic computers, and considering the psychology of many people hoping that the shape of Chinese characters is relatively stable, the National Conference on Chinese Language and Writing held in January 1986 recommended *** to approve the formal announcement of the abolition of "Second Jane".

The word "Erjian" was abolished after a period of trial time, but it was abolished and is still popular in society. For example, most of the "meals" in restaurants that can be seen on the streets of towns are written as "歺", and other "Erjian" characters such as "彐 (snow)", "氿 (wine)", "弁 (braid)" and "桜 (Sakura)" also often appear, which affects the norms of social use of words.

It is generally believed that this scheme simplifies some words that should not be simplified, and some words that should be simplified are not simplified. And it is too simplified, and the use of "two simplified characters" in society is too confusing. At that time, scholars generally believed:

Compared with the first simplified Chinese characters, most of the new simplified characters in the draft adopted in one industry and one region, and the covenant was not fully determined and the customs were not complete, resulting in the two simplified characters not being accepted by the majority of the people. At that time, under the rule of ultra-left ideology, people believed that Chinese characters were for the workers, peasants and soldiers, and that intellectuals were "stinky old nine", so the intellectuals were not consulted when simplifying Chinese characters, and they were not even voted on by the Character Reform Committee, so in fact they could not be regarded as "approved".

The People's Republic of China abolished this plan because of the unsuccessful simplification of the "two simplified characters", and pointed out: "In the future, we should be cautious about the reform of Chinese characters, so that the shape of Chinese characters will remain relatively stable for a period of time, so as to facilitate social application." The "Erjian Characters" are more simple and easy to write, but later generations believe that it has lost the characteristics of the beautiful shape of Chinese characters in terms of structure.

Since "People's **" began to experiment with "two simplified characters", there has been confusion in the use of "two simplified characters" in society. It has greatly affected the image of Chinese characters in international languages, and many experts and scholars in China have questioned this simplification. Finally, in 1986, the "two simplified characters" were abolished, and the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the National Standard Spoken and Written Language" stipulated that the "two simplified characters" were not standard words.

He also pointed out: "In the future, we should be cautious about the reform of Chinese characters, so that the form of Chinese characters will remain relatively stable for a period of time, so as to facilitate social application." "This simplification was unsuccessful, and since then, no official simplification has been proposed.

The quarrel between a group of upper-class people who came to read poetry and books for thousands of years is just that, and it has not ended now, and it may not end in the future.

Looking at the current controversy between simplicity and complexity, you can think that the quarrel was even worse when the two were pushed at the beginning.

Further to the source, when the Qin Dynasty unified the language, it may not have been scolded by those literati in the Six Kingdoms, no wonder they wanted to burn books and pit Confucianism.

I think the main resistance comes from the traditional forces, once simplified.

They were originally literate, but now they are illiterate, of course.

The Council objected.

In fact, there are still rules to follow in the simplification of Chinese characters, and the shadow of the original characters can still be seen in the appearance, so there is no need to object to the people who can read and read in the past, they can get used to simplifying the characters as long as it takes a short time. Also, every time you simplify, you must ensure a certain amount of time, and you can't change it too quickly.

In addition, the simplified Chinese characters should not be too many at a time, so that a certain continuity will be maintained with the previous characters, and of course there will be fewer opponents.

The simplification of words is the trend of the times and the trend of history. Ease of writing and legibility is the purpose of the reform. The traditional Chinese characters of Hong Kong and Taiwan will one day be simplified.

Many people are still confused about the direction in which Chinese characters are developing. But in general, I still hope to have a Chinese character that is easy to recognize, easy to write, beautiful and generous. I believe that the evolution of Chinese characters from pictures over thousands of years to the current square characters with distinct strokes is in line with the development and optimization of the Chinese language.

A simplified character has completed the mission of historical reform, the next step is to continue to maintain the clear strokes of the square font pinyin, the meaning of each word is planned, so that the meaning of the bearing is more organized, no longer polyphonic polysemy words, so that Chinese characters have the function of pinyin tone to distinguish homophones from the square word. It will be possible to make Chinese Esperanto with this kind of character. ））

Because the two simplified Chinese characters are not mature, many of them are simplified unreasonably, people do not accept it, although many of the two simplified characters are simplified and reasonable, but it will cause great difficulties for publishing houses, computers, etc., and at the same time, people also hope that the Chinese characters can be stabilized, so they are abolished.

The scope of use is relatively small, the degree of national inheritance is not high, it is more troublesome, the recognition is not high, and it is not liked by people.

The main purpose is to simplify Chinese characters, so that ordinary people can better use them, so that it is convenient for everyone to better understand.

Causes

Some experts believe that the second simplified character oversimplifies the glyph of Chinese characters, making it convenient for people to read, but losing the beauty and essence of Chinese characters. Even in a certain period, there is a certain amount of confusion. Moreover, in Japan, our neighboring country at that time, a large part of the katakana they used was actually extracted from Chinese characters, and the appearance of the two simplified characters was more like Japanese characters.

It is precisely because of this that the "two simplified characters" were finally abandoned.

Second, the impact of abbreviated wordsThe second simplified characters still have an impact on people, for example, some of the second simplified characters have become standard characters or have a very high degree of social recognition. Oranges are one of them, and it has become a practice to fill out a health certificate by simplifying meals to "歺". There is also an impact on surnames, originally Xiao and Xiao are two independent surnames, but they are conflated in the two simplified characters, and the surname Xiao is simplified to the surname Xiao, resulting in a large increase in the population of the surname Xiao.