Some people say that the vernacular language and simplified Chinese characters are destroying and ruining the traditional Chinese culture? Because the vernacular language led to the loss of the litera

Some people say that the vernacular language and simplified Chinese characters are destroying and ruining the traditional Chinese culture? Because the vernacular language led to the loss of the literary language, making it impossible for modern people to read and understand

This argument is biased. There are two issues that need to be clarified, the literary language and the vernacular language, and the traditional and simplified characters.

The issue of literary and vernacular languages has been discussed from May 4 to the present, but in fact the separation of "literary" and "vernacular" began in the Tang Dynasty. Tang Dynasty novels and Tang Dynasty literati articles are not a system, spoken and written are different. The separation between the two hindered the dissemination of culture, so it was progressive to "write with my own hand, write with my own heart", to unify the written language and to promote the vernacular language. As far as modern Chinese is concerned, we can still feel the difference between spoken and written language, though mostly in the style of speech. In addition, language develops. For example, in the Han Dynasty, people said, "The vertical son is not enough to be involved in a conspiracy", which we now see as a sentence in the literary language. Language is not static. Even if we do not promote the vernacular language, the literary language itself will have new changes. So there is no such thing as saying that if we implement vernacular language, we can't study the ancient culture and it will be lost, then the culture is too fragile.

Traditional and simplified. Words are symbols, except that Chinese characters are ideograms, and traditional forms do reflect more meaningful information from the morphological aspect. But if we look at it from that perspective, why don't we go to oracle bone writing, which is more original? Words are just tools, capable of carrying information, and what's wrong with a lighter tool? If you want to learn about the information attached to the text, there are word source databases and so on, which can be used to learn more about it.

Language and text are just carriers, as long as the soil of cultural heritage in the core of the culture, civilization and tradition will still play a force.