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How to treat the development of Chinese characters and China traditional culture under the current social background?

1. Three stages in the development history of Chinese characters.

In the development history of Chinese characters, there are different stages of development. Traditional stages are divided into four stages according to the changes of Chinese font, that is, according to the standards of big seal script, small seal script, official script and regular script. This achievement puts forward that font change is not an essential change in the development of Chinese characters, and it cannot explain the historical development law of Chinese characters, but should be explained by the change of Chinese character construction methods. On the basis of this understanding, this achievement further puts forward the three-stage theory of Chinese character development. That is, the first stage is the drawing stage. People before Shang Dynasty should belong to this stage. The second stage is the phonetic stage with phonetic notation as the main body and hieroglyphics as the basis. The characters from Oracle Bone Inscriptions to Qin Dynasty all belong to this stage. The third stage is the writing stage of pictophonetic characters with pictophonetic characters as the main body, and there are still some pictophonetic characters and pictophonetic characters, which belong to this stage from Qin and Han dynasties to modern Chinese characters.

2. Advantages and disadvantages of Chinese characters.

At present, there are two popular characters in the world: one is phonography who records the pronunciation of words with dozens of letters; Second, Chinese characters with both phonograms and phonograms. These two types of writing systems have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we can't say which one is absolutely good and which one is absolutely bad. Some scholars in Europe believe that phonography is the most advanced writing, while Chinese characters are a kind of backward writing. This prejudice has been accepted by some domestic scholars. When they talk about Chinese characters in books and periodicals, they seldom talk about the advantages of Chinese characters, which is one-sided.

Advantages of Chinese characters. The biggest advantage of Chinese characters is super dialect. China is a vast country. ...