On the Future Forum, many people brag about traditional Chinese characters for a long time, how beautiful they are, but let alone rare characters. Most of them can’t write traditional Chinese characters with melancholy turtles. Many of the so-called ability to write have typos. They say that these people are Kong Yiji pretending to be juren and even praise them. They are simply pretending to be cultural people, and they are not afraid of being too sucked.

"Comrade Bai Yu, you are really resentful, but traditional Chinese characters are still valuable in the fields of ancient literature and calligraphy. Just abolish them. Promoting simplified characters is indeed an urgent task." Chairman Li Desheng didn't know why Liu Baiyu had such a big opinion, and found it a bit funny.

"The abolition is a bit too much. Chairman, this is not a simple font problem, but an impact of advanced to backward, industrial civilization on the old era, or even if it is not done well, it will cause major political issues. So my opinion is to simply make things bigger and launch a re-evaluation of Chinese history!"

"Well, Comrade Bai Yu can tell me in detail about your opinion?" Chairman Li Desheng asked curiously.

It should be said that the modern poor q on the Internet, even the traditional Chinese turtle is not written correctly, many of them are not cultured and ignorant, as if the simplified characters were thought out by the people's government. In fact, it is not that true!

The People's Government's "General Table of Simplified Characters" collected a total of 2,274 simplified characters and 14 simplified radicals) and conducted statistics and found that more than 80% of them (420 words: 68 characters in the pre-Qin period, 96 characters in the Qin and Han dynasties, 32 characters in the Three Kingdoms, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, 29 characters in the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, 82 characters in the Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, 53 characters in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and 60 characters in the Republic of China) were all popular or existing before liberation, and there were 101 characters in the liberated areas and after the founding of the country. [

True calligraphy enthusiasts can see that from Wang Xizhi to Liu Gongquan, there are many ancient simplified characters. In fact, before the founding of New China, simplified characters were standardized. It was just that the Kuomintang was too weak to the old literati and did not implement them. Of course, the Kuomintang's tragic organizational ability was to create simplified characters, and I was afraid that it would not be able to achieve the great cause of popularizing education in the mainland with hundreds of millions of people.

In August 1935, the Ministry of Education of the National Government published the "First Batch Simplified Chinese Characters Table", which included 324 of the most widely circulated common characters among the people, ancient characters and cursive characters. However, due to controversy, in February of the following year, the "First Batch Simplified Chinese Characters Table" was taken back... The two explanations of the "First Batch Simplified Chinese Characters Table" in the Republic of China are as follows: 1) Simplified Chinese characters are words with simple strokes, easy to recognize and write. Different from regular characters, they can be replaced by regular characters written in traditional characters. 2) The simplified Chinese characters listed in this table include common characters, ancient characters, cursive characters, etc. Vulgar characters such as "Type, Bao, Rock, Silkworm", etc., ancient characters such as "Qi, Wu, Wu, Guang", etc., and cursive scripts such as "Shi, Real, Wei, Hui", etc., are all used by people who have already used it.

The Kuomintang government has not yet implemented simplified characters in order to appease the old literati, so it has been described as traditional characters as regular characters, which is three points shorter. In the face of the siege of the old literati, how can it be invincible?

The modern Chinese character simplification movement originated from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In order to increase the literacy rate, the jade seal and official documents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were written in simplified Chinese. According to informal statistics, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom used more than 100 simplified Chinese characters, of which 80% were later adopted (Contemporary Chinese Reform P.38). The most famous character of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was to change the "or" of "country (country, country)" to "king", but after the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the text simplification movement also stopped.

The vernacular movement of the May Fourth Movement is well known to everyone. In fact, the vernacular simplification movement should be compared with the vernacular simplification movement, because both are part of the New Culture Movement. During this period, many people proposed ways to improve the knowledge level of Chinese people. To improve the knowledge level, first improve the literacy rate. To increase the literacy rate, complex Chinese characters must be simplified. Simplification of the text has been favored by many intellectuals, and most intellectuals who advocate using vernacular simplification agree with the simplification of the text. The famous Chinese scholar Hu Shi also highly supported [3]

On February 24, 1935, Shanghai's "Shenbao" first published the news report of "Promoting the Words in Hand", and also published "The Origin of the Words in Hand" and "The First Issue of the Words in Hand". Other newspapers and magazines in Shanghai reprinted "The Origin of the Words in Hand". The movement of "The Origin of the Words in Hand" was jointly initiated by 200 well-known figures in the cultural and educational circles at that time, including Cai Yuanpei, Shao Lizi, Tao Xingzhi, Guo Moruo, Hu Yuzhi, Chen Wangdao, Ye Shengtao, Ba Jin, Lao She, Zheng Zhenduo, Zhu Ziqing, Li Gongpu, Ai Siqi, Yu Dafu, Hu Feng, Lin Handa, Ye Laishi, and 15 magazines including "Taibai", "Literature", "Translation", "New China", "Reading Life", and "World Knowledge".

On August 21, 1935, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China issued the Ministry of Education No. 11400, officially promulgating the "First Batch of Simplified Chinese Character Table". Most of the 300 words collected in the "First Batch of Simplified Chinese Character Table" were adopted by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China in 1935. That is, 324 of the 2400 words in the "Simplified Chinese Character Table" compiled by Qian Xuantong. This was the first time that the government had large-scale simplified Chinese characters. However, Dai Jitao and other Kuomintang cultural relics strongly opposed it. On February 5, 1936, the Ministry of Education followed the order of the Executive Yuan, and ordered that "simplified Chinese characters should be temporarily suspended." The "First Batch of Simplified Chinese Character Table" was revoked and abolished.

In October 1936, Rong Geng published the "Simplified Chinese Dictionary" and offered a simplified Chinese character course at Yenching University for experimentation.

In 1937, the first table of "Simplified Chinese Character Table" published by the Font Research Association of the Peking Institute has included 1,700 simplified Chinese characters. It was only when the Anti-Japanese War broke out that the work of simplifying Chinese characters was forced to stop.

To be honest, the National Government is also promoting simplified characters, but it is not successful because of its incompetence, busy with civil war, etc., but it is far from being slandered by the people who often use Taiwanese traditional characters to talk about things.

Of course, the pragmatism of the Communist government in the liberated areas and the incompetence and stupidity of the National Government.

By the outbreak of World War II, the Chinese character simplification movement was promoted within the rule of the Communist Party. The newspapers and magazines in the district used existing or created simplified characters, also known as "Liberation Characters". But people were more keen on the creation of new characters. By the time the founding of New China, many new characters had been circulated in society. Among them, "Pinyin French in Mandarin Roman characters" (hereinafter referred to as "Guo Luo") founded by linguists Li Jinxi and Zhao Yuanren, and Qu Qiubai and the Soviet Union.

The Latinized New Text (hereinafter referred to as "Bei La") jointly formulated by sinologists has the greatest influence. Under the advocacy of Wu Yuzhang, "Bei La" even gained a status comparable to Chinese characters in Yan'an. Many illiterate farmers got blind through this set of pinyin characters, and were able to read pinyin newspapers, but also wrote simple letters. This strengthened the confidence of linguists in the new characters. However, due to years of war, the experiments and promotion of new characters have never been launched nationwide.
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