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The principles for simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters are: "state without writing", "convention and steady progress", that is to say, try to use simplified characters that have been popular among the people for a long time, and only collect, organize and make necessary modifications , simplifying in accordance with the principle of "convention and steady progress". It includes two aspects: First, simplifying the number of characters and abolishing variant characters with the same pronunciation and synonyms but different shapes.
In 1955, the Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Character Reform Committee published the "First Batch Variant Character Collection List" and abolished 1,055 variant characters. The second is to reduce strokes. In 1964, the Chinese Character Reform Commission, the Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry of Education published the "General List of Simplified Characters". There were 2,238 simplified characters, and the traditional Chinese characters with an average of 16 to 19 pictures per character were simplified to an average of 8 to 11 pictures per character. abbreviated word.
The "General List of Simplified Characters" contains 2274 simplified characters and 14 simplified radicals such as 讠[訁],饣[堠],纺[糹],钅[釒], among which there are many characters Common characters, variant characters, ancient characters, and borrowed characters with simple strokes in cursive script and literature, while other characters are created by contemporary people.
The "General Standard Chinese Character List" implements limited analogy simplification, that is, all traditional Chinese characters included in the list are simplified by analogy according to the principles stipulated in the "General List of Simplified Characters", such as "骦,镕,鴴" The four characters ", 鹔" are respectively simplified to "骦,镕,鴴,锴". Characters outside the character list will no longer be simplified by analogy. For example, "顡" will not be simplified by analogy to "dragon+horse".
As early as the Song and Yuan dynasties, a large number of "vulgar characters" appeared, such as Yan Yuansun's "Qianlu Zi Shu", Liu Fu and Li Jiarui's "Vulgar Characters since the Song and Yuan Dynasties" (1930), Qian's Xuantong's "Simplified Chinese Character Pu" (1935) and others compiled this. In the 1920s and 1930s, the National Government at that time announced the "Simplified Chinese Character List". Due to the controversy, this plan was not implemented. In the 1950s, the new Chinese government announced simplified Chinese characters in stages and promoted them across the mainland.
In the 1970s, there were a number of two-character simplified characters. For example, the character "Zhan" was simplified to the character " Corpse " with "一" under it, which was described by people at that time as "corpses everywhere." ", such two simplified characters have been abolished, and Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau have not simplified Chinese characters.
Extended information
In addition to the differences in Chinese character glyphs themselves, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese also have vocabulary differences. For example, the commonly used "ballpoint pen" in Simplified Chinese is called "ball pen" in Traditional Chinese, "Stalin" in Simplified Chinese is called "Stalin" in Traditional Chinese, and "North Korea" in Simplified Chinese (here refers to North Korea The Democratic People's Republic of China, also known as North Korea) is called "North Korea" in Traditional Chinese, "Sydney" in Simplified Chinese is called "Sydney" in Traditional Chinese, etc.
Due to this difference, the term "traditional Chinese language" came into being. However, this is not actually a difference between Traditional and Simplified Chinese itself, but mainly due to the differences in word usage habits among the people who use them, especially those in Mainland China and Taiwan who had less communication after they were separated due to political reasons in the mid-20th century.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia in Traditional Chinese