American netizen: Chinese characters have many shortcomings. Why haven't China abandoned them?

The American netizen mentioned that Chinese characters have many shortcomings, and that's the truth. For this problem, we must first recognize where the shortcomings of Chinese characters are. According to my idea, in his opinion, Chinese characters may be too complicated to write compared with English, and its writing is very complicated. It is very difficult to remember thousands of words when using Chinese characters. In addition, there are many problems in Chinese characters, such as rich semantics, polyphonic characters, complicated and simplified characters and so on. Also, in the early days of the computer age, Chinese characters were embarrassed because they were difficult to handle in computers. However, China produced a scientist named Wang Xuan. He is called the father of Chinese character laser phototypesetting system, and since then he has allowed Chinese characters to be input and processed on the computer.

Chinese is indeed called the most difficult language to learn in the world, but we don't need and can't give up the language that the Chinese nation has invested for thousands of years. Chinese characters are the oldest ideographic characters in the world today, not to mention their research value. As a hieroglyphic language, it will be more obvious visually than phonography (such as English), thus increasing people's reading speed. Although our writing system is huge, the practical literacy rate of ordinary adults in China can reach more than several thousand words. Although it seems difficult to learn, compared with western Chinese characters, the arrangement and combination of Chinese characters are very flexible, and the same words can form words with different meanings, which makes the available vocabulary very rich, equivalent to thousands of words in English. English words are really a headache to recite. Also, if we give up Chinese, what needs should we use? English? Although it is time for the whole people to learn English, it does not include many middle-aged and elderly people. They have no way or energy to learn another foreign language, and the country will not waste one or two generations to change their mother tongue.

Finally, Chinese is a treasure of our national culture. It is beautiful not only in the diversity of calligraphy, but also in the expression, such as those ancient poems, which are an indispensable part of our country and our nation.