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Traditional Chinese characters are still used on the Mainland for stylistic reasons, e.g. 為人民服務 "serve the people" in Mao Zedong's handwriting is popular as dec

by yorwba 5y ago

Traditional Chinese characters are still used on the Mainland for stylistic reasons, e.g. 為人民服務 "serve the people" in Mao Zedong's handwriting is popular as decoration: http://image.hnol.net/c/2014-02/28/16/201402281653233461-2278633.jpeg http://image.hnol.net/c/2014-02/28/16/201402281653233461-227... (And Simplified Characters get used in Taiwan for convenience, compare 台湾 vs. 台灣 vs. 臺灣 "Taiwan") Yayue performed at the closing ceremony of the World Military Games in Wuhan: https://bilibili.com/video/BV19E41187ga https://bilibili.com/video/BV19E41187ga Recreation of Tang dynasty dances: https://bilibili.com/video/BV1Lv411Y75s https://bilibili.com/video/BV1Lv411Y75s Poem recited in Hokkien: https://bilibili.com/video/BV1re411s7Tm https://bilibili.com/video/BV1re411s7Tm Recital of Daoist classics (warning: loud!) Subtitles are in the bullet comments: https://bilibili.com/video/BV1N7411t7fJ https://bilibili.com/video/BV1N7411t7fJ Okay, I couldn't find anything about Xi Jinping visiting Confucian temples, so have some Buddhist monks instead: https://file.dahe.cn/image/jpeg/20210723/1627048785988322.jpg https://file.dahe.cn/image/jpeg/20210723/1627048785988322.jp... And the PRC certainly doesn't have a dedicated Ceremonial Official to Confucius.

starfallg 5y ago
But those are the exceptions. The general situation is that traditional characters are official in Taiwan and taught as the standard in schools, and simplified characters in the Mainland.
- platinumrad 5y ago
  Simplification was a good thing. Plenty of factions in the early 20th century wanted simplification, or even full romanization. It's just that the CCP happened to win the civil war, so they're the ones who actually implemented it and now it's a cultural flash point. Honestly, it's not a big deal, unless you somehow think Hangul and Hiragana are abominations too.
  - starfallg 5y ago
    >Honestly, it's not a big deal, unless you somehow think Hangul and Hiragana are abominations too. Not sure where you are going there and what the process of Chinese character simplification has to do with Hangul and Hiragana. That's more akin to the drive to romanise Chinese than simplification. Simplified Chinese isn't an abomination, but some parts of it is done poorly. If you take a look at how Japan did simplification with Shinjitai, you can see that in general the simplification process is more precise with a smaller number of characters affected, and those that are simplified were done in a way that is more linguistically and aesthetically sympathetic. For example, 個／个 and 廣/広/广.

by yorwba 5y ago

starfallg 5y ago

But those are the exceptions. The general situation is that traditional characters are official in Taiwan and taught as the standard in schools, and simplified characters in the Mainland.

platinumrad 5y ago
Simplification was a good thing. Plenty of factions in the early 20th century wanted simplification, or even full romanization. It's just that the CCP happened to win the civil war, so they're the ones who actually implemented it and now it's a cultural flash point. Honestly, it's not a big deal, unless you somehow think Hangul and Hiragana are abominations too.
- starfallg 5y ago
  >Honestly, it's not a big deal, unless you somehow think Hangul and Hiragana are abominations too. Not sure where you are going there and what the process of Chinese character simplification has to do with Hangul and Hiragana. That's more akin to the drive to romanise Chinese than simplification. Simplified Chinese isn't an abomination, but some parts of it is done poorly. If you take a look at how Japan did simplification with Shinjitai, you can see that in general the simplification process is more precise with a smaller number of characters affected, and those that are simplified were done in a way that is more linguistically and aesthetically sympathetic. For example, 個／个 and 廣/広/广.