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The Reform of Chinese Characters is the Inevitability of History

2019-03-28

As far as Chinese characters are concerned, their conciseness, richness, breadth and depth have made Chinese culture proud and enduring, and become a unique cultural phenomenon in the world's national forest.


In modern times, with the world industrial revolution and the progress of science and technology, the tragic lessons of China's weakness and backwardness have also been made difficult by some people, who have put forward the slogan "Chinese characters will never die in China". It is undoubtedly extreme to simply equate a language with the rise and fall of a nation, which has been proved wrong by history.


With the rapid development of China's reform, opening up and economy, Chinese culture, as a spiritual window of a reviving nation, is presented in front of the world, communicating and integrating with the world. This feeling is not only "rushing to Beijing to catch up with the exam", but also the new and high-tech problems on the global Internet. Therefore, all responsible people, especially many professional language workers, will continue to demonstrate whether Chinese characters are good or bad. There are many people who advocate the abandonment of Chinese characters and the worship of English. Our mother tongue is the most important language in the world. Each has its own reasons, so the United Nations has to stare at all kinds of eyes, "clean officials can not stop housework" choke.



It is necessary to put the reform of Chinese characters on the agenda


Perhaps since the birth of Chinese characters, it has never stopped the pace of progress. The earliest Chinese characters that can be witnessed now are oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin Dynasty, which are more than 3,000 years of Chinese characters, and have already been a fairly mature system of symbols. It is generally believed that Chinese characters existed at least five or six thousand years ago. How did Chinese characters evolve over the past two thousand years? Because there are too few unearthed and verifiable materials, it is still unknown.


From oracle bone inscriptions to today's Chinese characters, Chinese characters have also gone through the green mulberry, tenacious and unremitting vitality, self-improvement, climbing up the ladder of Chinese civilization one after another, with the same concept of "outline" and "belonging". Only Chinese characters, with their unique personality and vitality, stand in the forest of the world like the Chinese nation. I think the reason is the result of the continuous self-reform, transformation, evolution and evolution of Chinese characters.


If wedge-shaped characters, like Chinese characters, follow their own laws and take the road of self-development, the world's non-phonetic words may not be the unique situation of today's Chinese characters.


Generally speaking, the laws of the transformation and development of Chinese characters are mainly manifested in two aspects: one is from complexity to simplicity; the other is from visual pictorial characters to abstract symbolic system with logic. For example, from the known inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells to the seal inscriptions on Zeus, it is the first significant change in the form of Chinese characters. Although seal characters still retain some traces of hieroglyphics, their symbolism is greatly enhanced. This change can be compared to a "shaping and remolding" of the ancient primitive Chinese characters. Then it evolved from the seal to the official script, which was a leap in the development of Chinese characters. Through this change, Chinese characters were greatly improved in the shape structure and local strokes (gestures of strokes). From then on, the ancient Chinese characters were completely farewell and the foundation of modern Chinese characters was laid. This change can not be overstated if it is compared to the "rebirth" of Chinese characters. Later, Song characters and regular scripts still changed in varying degrees. For example, the wave potential of strokes became straight and the Chinese characters became more square as a whole. The existing words, like the existing nations, always have their significance and value of existence. This meaning and value will be tested by the times forever and from time to time. There is no exception for the Chinese nation. To continue the process of history, we must not be complacent because of the splendid civilization of 5000 years, nor can we be close to it.


It is reasonable and historically finalized to continue the process of history, to continue to use the Chinese characters which have been used for more than 2,000 years, and to make another great change.


The two major changes mentioned above. It involves the form and structure of the whole Chinese character, and almost every Chinese character in the whole system. The connotation and meaning of the Chinese character has changed. It is no longer a pictograph but an ideographic character. Therefore, this is a real and substantial reform of Chinese characters, from communicating with gods in Jia to casting articles on Zhongding, in order to pass on the achievements of all ages. Then to bamboo slips, silk, paper and Book engraving.


The requirement of recording and disseminating languages is changing, which will certainly pose new challenges to Chinese characters.


There shouldn't be much objection to this issue. What we should emphasize here is to implement real reform.



The development of Chinese characters is always related to a certain historical period.


After the unification of the six kingdoms, the Qin Emperor first carried out the unification of Chinese characters. Later Han Dynasty consolidated the achievements of the short-lived Qin Dynasty in the 1000 Autumn Period, and later Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, all played an important role in the development and evolution of Chinese characters from the inscriptions of the Wei Dynasty in Yili. Song Style and imitation of Song Style are the products of Song Dynasty.


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