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Resume the debate on whether the disadvantages of traditional Chinese characters outweigh the advantages or the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Pan Qinglin, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, suggested that simplified characters should be abolished in 10 and traditional characters should be restored. There are three reasons: 1. The simplification of Chinese characters in 1950s was too rough, which violated the artistry and scientificity of Chinese characters. For example, there is a "heart" in traditional Chinese characters, which becomes "unintentional love" after simplification. It used to be said that traditional Chinese characters are too complicated to learn and write, which is not conducive to communication, but now many people use computers to input them, even traditional Chinese characters are the same. 3. Restoring the use of traditional Chinese characters is conducive to cross-strait reunification. At present, traditional Chinese characters are still used in Taiwan Province Province, which is called "Normative Chinese Characters", which has profound meaning. It is also necessary to apply for intangible cultural heritage for "standard Chinese characters", which has put pressure on Chinese mainland.

First of all, the biggest drawback, the restoration of traditional Chinese characters and the abolition of simplified Chinese characters, is greatly unfavorable to Chinese and foreign exchanges. Nowadays, many foreigners are also learning Chinese in the process of "worshipping foreign things and obsessing foreign things". Once the traditional Chinese characters are restored, it will be difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese, which is not conducive to Chinese going global. If foreigners are allowed to learn Chinese, the words should be delicate and easy to understand, and foreigners will have the confidence to learn. If we repeat "antiques" again, foreigners will think that China people are too "antiques" and feel confused.

In real life, most people still agree with simplified characters. Traditional Chinese characters on the Internet are just a fashion, just like the Korean Wave, just a gust of wind, but this is not the trend of restoring traditional Chinese characters. Simplified Chinese characters have been practiced for decades. If modern people are worried about the sudden attack of traditional Chinese characters, the strategy to restore traditional Chinese characters is to be smarter than themselves.

Speaking of simplified characters, these years can be described as boundless merits. Throughout the evolution history of Chinese characters, simplified characters are the inevitable result of the evolution of Chinese characters. The general trend of Chinese characters from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions to seal script, to official script and regular script is from complexity to simplicity. This is a law that no one can stop. It is foreseeable that Chinese characters will continue to be simplified in the future. If simplified Chinese characters are considered unsightly and lack artistry, then Chinese characters, no matter how complicated, are not as beautiful as paintings, even if they are written as pure pictographs. Should we simply abolish writing and replace it with painting?

After all, writing is a symbol and a communication tool. Whether it is simplified or traditional Chinese characters, or the popular Martian text on the Internet recently, it is just an artistic attribute of words. But the meaning is still the same. A calligraphy that can be completed with only a few strokes will be replaced by a traditional Chinese character with more than 20 strokes, and the writing method is extremely complicated. Why do we spend so much energy to remember strokes? Why cling to the remnants of death and rediscover the traditional Chinese characters that have been abandoned for a long time?