What are the advantages of simplified versus traditional Chinese characters?

1. Compared to traditional Chinese characters, simplified Chinese characters are easier to learn and write.

As an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use tool, simplified Chinese characters can better help people understand and familiarize themselves with Chinese culture, and thus better transmit and popularize Chinese civilization.

Whether as a carrier of civilization or as a tool of expression, the evolution from traditional to simplified characters is only a change in the appearance of the carrier and the tool, and it does not constitute a damage or a reduction of civilization's connotation.

2. Simplified characters have many benefits, such as the convenience of handwriting, printing can save ink.

Especially from the point of view of literacy, simplified characters are also obviously more effective than traditional characters, which has been confirmed by Zhou Youguang and many other linguists and litterateurs through experiments. In a backward region in the Northeast, teaching the masses to intersperse simplified Chinese characters with Hanyu Pinyin enabled rural women to master reading and writing quickly.

Some people use the fact that the illiteracy rate in Taiwan and Hong Kong is less than that in the mainland to argue that traditional Chinese characters will not affect literacy is in fact a strong argument because the level of economic development of the three places on both sides of the Taiwan Straits is completely different, and the mainland has far more poor people, most of whom do not receive any decent education, and the high illiteracy rate really does not have any relationship with the complexity or simplicity of the fonts.

Simplified Chinese characters can better serve life

As the standardized script chosen by the new China, simplified Chinese characters are the call and expectation of several generations, and it is an indisputable fact that they have been realized since the 1950s as the standard Chinese script and have become common in documentation and communication for the people of China and even for the whole world. It seems to be an incontrovertible fact that the more important is the less important.

Simplified Chinese characters represent the direction of the development of Chinese characters, and are a new monument in the history of the development of Chinese characters, whose advancement and standardization are unprecedented. During his lifetime, Mr. Qigong, who was physically active, had used simplified Chinese characters to create many excellent calligraphic works, which was an extremely insightful move and exemplary. May the calligraphers of the new era, follow the example of the old generation, boldly pioneering, to create works of calligraphy in simplified Chinese characters worthy of the times, so that calligraphy better serve the real life.

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Reference: People's Daily Online - Simplified and Traditional Characters Both Can Inherit Civilization