With our emphasis on traditional culture, many experts call for the restoration of traditional Chinese characters.
Faced with this appeal, some friends think that the practice of restoring traditional Chinese characters is blindly retro, which is a retrogression and is not desirable; However, some friends have pointed out that traditional Chinese characters carry a lot of wisdom of the ancients, and restoring traditional Chinese characters will help us inherit China culture and China spirit.
Yan Xiaoer wanted to say that Confucius was also "loyal to the ancient times", but he was the first person to push the school from aristocrats to civilians. In other words, the past culture should be inherited, but inheritance does not mean "no innovation". Inheritance does not necessarily mean "no innovation".
Therefore, Yan Xiaoer thinks it is unnecessary to refuse the call of "restoring traditional Chinese characters". However, this does not mean that Yan Xiaoer is in favor of "completely restoring traditional Chinese characters".
The society is constantly developing, and an inconvenient thing cannot last long, and the evolution of Chinese characters into today's appearance has also brought us a lot of convenience. Therefore, I personally don't recommend the complete restoration of traditional Chinese characters. However, we also encourage interested friends to learn more traditional Chinese characters, which is not only good for understanding China culture, but also can learn the wisdom of many ancestors.
1, traditional Chinese characters express "emotion" more intuitively. In the era of rapid progress and electronic information, our life has become more and more convenient, but people have become more and more "indifferent".
Everything has two sides. We choose to develop rapidly, but the spiritual realm can't keep up with the speed of material development. This disconnect will inevitably lead to alienation between people. We need to reflect on this.
And we in China have made great achievements in the study of spiritual accomplishment since ancient times.
These ideological achievements are also envied by the world. To say evidence? For example, the Confucius Institutes all over the world, the Tao Te Ching, which is well-known overseas, and even Yangming's Mind all reflect the inherent "advanced nature" of China's traditional culture.
At the same time, more developed areas, such as Japan, which has long been a developed country, regard China's Taoist thoughts and Wang Yangming's thoughts as treasures.
Because people's material level has risen to a certain height, the spiritual realm needs excellent "sage thought" to enrich it.
What reflects the thoughts of the sages, besides the books they left behind, we can also feel a thing or two from the traditional Chinese characters.
For example, the traditional Chinese character of "pro" is "pro". When you open it, it means meeting relatives. Simplified "pro" can't directly express this effect.
From this we can infer that perhaps the ancients invented this word because they regarded family reunion as the most "cordial" and "warm-hearted" thing in the world, and it was also the most important thing.
This also conveyed the ancient people's attention to "consanguinity", and then reflected China's attention to the family and the spirit of the same strain since ancient times.
It can also be seen that traditional Chinese characters are more "direct" in emotional expression than modern simplified Chinese characters. Learning traditional Chinese characters can also play a role in melting the gap between modern people to some extent.
Although traditional Chinese characters can express profound connotations intuitively, it is not easy to convey information in time. It is true that traditional Chinese characters contain the wisdom and sincere feelings of the ancients and make them more intuitive, but it is undeniable that traditional Chinese characters are not conducive to the timely transmission of information.
According to records, even in ancient China, there were things to slim down traditional Chinese characters.
In order to facilitate daily life, it is difficult to control the weight of writing because the strokes of traditional Chinese characters are complex, while the ancients wrote with a brush. Therefore, for words with more strokes, the ancients wrote similar songbooks in their daily lives, or kept accounts, wrote prescriptions, and wrote private letters. , which can simplify fonts and improve efficiency.
These simplified characters are called "common characters".
On formal occasions, such as the imperial edict of the Emperor, ministers' speeches and people's complaints, traditional Chinese characters are used to show solemnity and majesty.
In ancient times, the relationship between traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters was similar to modern "formal language" and "network language"
The former is more serious and the latter is more convenient.
3. For traditional Chinese characters, there is no need to be old-fashioned, and there is no need to resolutely oppose whether traditional Chinese characters should replace modern Chinese characters. Yan Xiaoer felt that it was unnecessary to completely "make the past good". After all, the society is advancing, and the traditional Chinese characters are particularly extensive and profound, but they are historical products of a certain period and have historical limitations, so they are not suitable as the mainstream record form of current life and study.
It is important to look back, but it is very important that "looking back" does not mean "going back".
However, we can't completely deny the value of traditional Chinese characters!
Traditional Chinese characters are rare treasures for us, and the wisdom of the sages and the truth of life contained in traditional Chinese characters are worth tasting all our lives.
In other words, friends who are interested or have spare capacity mainly use simplified characters in their daily life. When you are free, it is a great pleasure to study traditional Chinese characters and explore the profoundness of China traditional culture in traditional Chinese characters.
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