China:
1909, Lu Feikui published a paper "Common characters should be used in general education" in the first issue of Education magazine, which was the first time in history to publicly advocate simplified characters.
1922, Lu Feikui published a paper "Opinions on the Sorting of Chinese Characters", suggesting that simplified characters that have been popularized among the people should be adopted, and other characters with many strokes should also be simplified.
1922, Qian proposed "saving the current Chinese character stroke case" at the preparatory Committee for the unification of Mandarin, which was signed by, and. This is the first concrete plan about simplified Chinese characters in history, which advocates that simplified Chinese characters, which were only popular among the people in the past, should be used as regular Chinese characters in all formal written languages. The eight methods of simplifying Chinese characters put forward by it are actually the basis of simplifying Chinese characters now, which has far-reaching influence.
1928, Hu published The Theory of Simplified Characters, which collected more than 300 simplified characters.
1930 The Institute of History and Linguistics of Academia Sinica published a list of commonly used characters since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, reflecting the development of simplified characters in the past thousand years.
1932, the Ministry of Education of the National Government published the Vocabulary of Common Phonetic Alphabet compiled by the Preparatory Committee of Putonghua, which contains many simplified characters, and pointed out: "Now we should implement it (simplified characters) to make writing easier." 1934, China Library Service published Du Dingyou's Standardized Table of Simplified Characters, with 353 simplified characters. Xu Zemin published a "list of 550 commonly used words" in the semi-monthly Analects of Confucius. Qian put forward the case of "collecting simplified characters that are inherently applicable" at the preparatory Committee for the unification of Mandarin.
1935, Qian presided over the compilation of Simplified Chinese Characters, and collected more than 2,400 simplified Chinese characters. In August of the same year, the Ministry of Education of the Kuomintang government adopted a part of this draft and published the First List of Simplified Chinese Characters with 324 words. Although it was ordered to be revoked in February of the following year, it was the first list of simplified characters published by the government in history. That is, in this year, Shanghai cultural circles organized the "Handwritten Chinese Characters Promotion Meeting" and launched the "Handwritten Chinese Characters (Simplified Chinese Characters)" activity.
1936 10, Rong Geng Simplified Dictionary, 4445 words, basically cursive. In June of the same year 165438+ 10, Trn Quang Diu published a list of commonly used simplified characters, with 3 150 characters, about half of which came from cursive script and half from vulgar characters.
1937, the font research society of Beiping Research Institute published the first simplified word list with 1700 words.
When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, the movement of simplified characters was forced to stop.
Simplified characters continue to develop in the areas ruled by our party. * * * After the production party came to power, it immediately began to continue to promote simplified characters.
65438-0950 The Social Education Department of the Ministry of Education of the Central People's Government has compiled the Registration Form of Commonly Used Simplified Characters.
195 1 year, on the basis of the above table, the first simplified word list with 555 words was drawn up according to the principle of "words without deeds".
On February 5th, 1952, the China Character Reform Research Committee was established.
At the end of 1954, on the basis of the first batch of simplified word lists, the Cultural Reform Commission drew up a simplified word scheme (draft), which abolished 798 words, 56 simplified words and 400 variant characters.
On February 2nd, 1955 "Simplified Chinese Character Scheme (Draft)" was published, and 26 1 was tried out in more than 50 newspapers and periodicals in China in three batches. In July of the same year, 13, the State Council established the Chinese Simplified Scheme Review Committee. In the same year, in June+10, 5438, the national Chinese character reform conference was held, and the Simplified Chinese Character Scheme (Revised Draft) was discussed and passed, and the number of characters received was reduced to 5 15, and the number of simplified radicals was reduced to 54.
1 October 28th 1956,1The Simplified Chinese Character Scheme was reviewed by the Simplified Chinese Character Scheme Revision Committee, adopted at the 23rd plenary meeting in the State Council, officially published in People's Daily on1October 28th, and implemented nationwide. Later, this scheme was slightly changed according to the usage. 1964 In May, the Cultural Reform Commission published a summary of simplified characters, which is divided into three tables: the first table is 352 simplified characters that are not used as radicals, the second table is 132 simplified characters that can be used as radicals, and the third table is. * * * 2238 words (actually 2236 words because of the repetition of the words "sign" and "must"), which is the standard of using words in Chinese mainland today.
Singapore:
Before Singapore 1969: Inherit the use of Chinese characters. 1969 ~ 1976: the simplified Chinese character list was issued, which is different from the simplified Chinese character scheme in Chinese mainland. After 1976, the simplified characters formulated by Chinese mainland were fully accepted, and the general list of simplified characters, the list of variant characters and the comparison table of old and new Chinese characters were promulgated.