The advantages and disadvantages of traditional and simplified Chinese characters.

Traditional and simplified Chinese characters have their own advantages and disadvantages, the advantages of simplified Chinese characters are the disadvantages of traditional Chinese characters, while the disadvantages of simplified Chinese characters are the advantages of traditional Chinese characters, so the advantages and disadvantages of simplified Chinese characters as an example, it can be clearly illustrated that each of their respective advantages and disadvantages are as follows:

The advantages of simplified Chinese characters over Advantages of Traditional Chinese Characters

1. Reducing the number of strokes in Chinese characters makes them easier to write;

2. Improving the clarity of reading;

3. Reducing the number of characters in the common Chinese language;

4. Simplifying the Chinese language produces a number of new morphosyntactic characters with a more accurate phonetic system than the Traditional Chinese language.

Disadvantages of simplified characters compared to traditional characters

1. Some simplified characters use "symbols instead of symbols", which disrupts the strictness of the character family. For example, in the characters Han, Quan, Chicken, Only, and Deng, the word "and" as a simplified radical replaces the four traditional Chinese radicals that are completely different from each other, and at the same time, it can neither express sound nor meaning, making it a cryptogram that is difficult to comprehend.

2, homophonic instead of merging some Chinese characters, such as dry, dry, dry (rolling the right side), face, face (left wheat right side), only, only (on the Troika down and again), often lead to confusion of meaning (especially in the literary language), causing ambiguity. For example, "the ship docked in the northern harbor", written in simplified characters can have two interpretations.

3. Simplified characters disturb the consistency of the Chinese character system, so that countries such as China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, which themselves use consistent traditional Chinese characters, gradually begin to develop a cultural rift in Chinese characters.

4. The simplification of Chinese characters is not conducive to the inheritance of China's traditional culture over the past 5,000 years, and the promotion of simplified Chinese characters has made it impossible for many modern Chinese to read ancient texts directly anymore. Even when ancient books are reprinted in simplified characters, ambiguities often arise, causing readers to misinterpret them.

5. It is not conducive to cultural exchanges among mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, and the Chinese characters used in foreign countries, such as Japan, are further disconnected, making artificial "books different from the text". Singapore, Malaysia and other places, mainly in view of the mainland region in the world

6, from the perspective of the aesthetics of calligraphy, the design of many simplified characters is not rigorous enough, and at the same time, for the seal script, clerical script and other styles of writing, simplified after the loss of the original style of the special sense of aesthetics.

Principles of simplifying traditional Chinese characters

The principles of simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified ones are: "to describe but not to make", "to agree on a common practice, and to move forward steadily", that is to say, to try to adopt simplified Chinese characters that have been popular among the people for a long time, and to collect, collate and modify them as necessary, and to make the necessary changes. In other words, the simplified characters that have long been popular among the general public should be adopted as far as possible, with only the collection, organization and necessary modifications made, and simplification carried out in accordance with the principle of "common practice and steady progress". The first is to streamline the number of characters and to abolish different characters with the same sound and meaning but different shapes.

In 1955, the Ministry of Culture and the Character Reform Commission of China published the First Batch of Different Characters List, abolishing 1,055 different characters. The second is to reduce the number of strokes. 1964, China's Character Reform Committee, the Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry of Education published the General List of Simplified Characters, *** there are 2,238 simplified characters, simplifying the traditional Chinese characters, which have an average of 16 to 19 strokes per character, into simplified characters, which have an average of 8 to 11 strokes per character.