On The History Of Simplified Chinese Characters In The 20th Century

Since the 20 th century, the ancient Chinese characters encountered unprecedented challenges, a series of vigorous character reform movement will form from the complex traditional Chinese characters into the simple traditional Chinese characters, simplified Chinese character strokes intensity is unprecedented.If we say that the first half of the 20 th century, simplified Chinese characters century is still in the stage of advocacy, then enter the simplified Chinese characters for half a century has begun under the guidance of the government into practice, which appears twice a reform movement strokes of Chinese characters, that modern Chinese characters the first Chinese characters in the history of the sport with the second Chinese characters.Chinese characters reform relates to the field of social, economic, cultural, education.To sort out the history of simplified Chinese characters, is both a theoretical problem, but a complex social and cultural issues,which has great academic value and social value.In this article, by studying the data, using the method of combining theory and history of comparative analysis, in particular to start the first half of the 20 th century and the second half of the 20 th century Chinese characters Simplification of introduction and evaluation, and the case portion Simplified analysis. Purpose is to summarize the experience and lessons of simplified Chinese characters, to the reform of the future shape of Chinese characters provide a reference.This article is divided into five parts.The first part mainly introduces Coverage and reason, to sum up the literature and research related to the synthesis of information, indicating the purpose of this study used two methods and this article.The second part mainly introduces simplified characters campaign in the first half of the 20 th century, and put forward our understanding. During this period, scholars recognize Chinese characters is closely related to culture and education, and try their best to make a theoretical exploration and practice, which is commendable, but at the same time somewhat confused about the nature of Chinese characters, will be treated as simplified Chinese characters spelling of a transitional stage for the second half of the 20 th century reforms Chinese characters form a knowledge base irrational.The third part mainly introduces the first Chinese characters simplified. during this period,the first Chinese characters simplified has been increased from the first half of the individual behavior to become the government social behavior, citing stronger and simplified Chinese characters is unprecedented. the first Chinese characters simplified is generally written in Chinese characters brings convenience, but there are also make some Chinese characters lose clarity, increasing the homophone other issues. Sooner or later,people will formed the consciousness of alphabetize, so that it will become simplified by the use of traditional methods, the inappropriate use of homonyms consolidation and other methods to increase the frequency of Chinese characters homonym, but adds an additional burden to the learner. Here we propose: we need to pay attention to the essence of Chinese characters and Western provinces distinguished,and respect Chinese and Chinese characteristics adapted.The fourth part mainly study the second Chinese characters simplified. After combing the literature which put historical events in the second Chinese characters simplified, we highlighted the second Chinese characters simplified at a practical level, the subversion of the ideographic features is the biggest reason for the failure of the second Chinese characters simplified. To increase persuasion, in this last part we use 140 the second Chinese characters simplified as an example.We make a detailed analysis of these words which destruct the ideographic Chinese characters shaped.The fifth part is a summary of the full text. We point out that the reform of the 20 th century, the history of Chinese characters, simplified Chinese characters, although not the same in different historical periods of the specific situation, but in terms of the guiding ideology of the simplified Chinese characters, there are common misconceptions, then inevitable to varying degrees of deviation. We propose to simplify the principles of Chinese characters with full respect for the nature of ideographic characters,and should not be ignored the characteristics of Chinese Chinese characters to match the Chinese,and can’t just pursuit the simply of strokes. The result should be simplified discrimination does not affect the significance of the recognition and shaped structure at the same time reducing strokes.