Recently, the Ministry of Education replied to the specific content of the "Proposal on Establishing a Chinese Character Festival", saying that "Chinese characters are an important symbol of Chinese civilization and an important carrier for inheriting Chinese civilization." This reply, written by the Ministry of Education on September 9th, pointed out that the Ministry of Education and the State Language Committee have always attached great importance to the education, standardization, promotion, inheritance and protection of Chinese characters, and paid attention to improving the writing level and application ability of Chinese characters for the vast number of young people, giving full play to the basic role of language and writing in inheriting and carrying forward Chinese excellent traditional culture.
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The influence of Chinese characters
Chinese characters are an important tool to carry culture. At present, there are a large number of ancient books written in Chinese characters. Chinese characters are the common writing system in different dialects and even languages. In ancient Japan, Korean Peninsula, Viet Nam, Ryukyu Islands, and the Republic of Lanfang in Borneo, Chinese characters were once the official document system of the country, so China culture played an important role in the spread and sharing of neighboring civilizations in history.
Because the relationship between Chinese characters and pronunciation is not very close, it is easy to be borrowed by other ethnic groups, such as Japan, the Korean peninsula and Vietnam. There was a historical stage when only Chinese characters were written and no Chinese was spoken. This feature of Chinese characters plays an important role in maintaining a cultural circle-a nation full of various dialect groups that cannot communicate.
Chinese characters have had a great influence on the cultures of neighboring countries, forming a cultural circle in which Chinese characters share Chinese characters. Such as Japan, Vietnam, the Korean Peninsula and Ryukyu Islands.
Paper-Ministry of Education's reply to the proposal of setting up "Chinese Character Festival": Experts will be organized for further study.