汉字的形体演变与简化问题

On the Issues of the Derivation and Simplification of the Form and Structure of the Chinese Script

汉字的产生为中华民族经济社会发展做出了不可估量的贡献,今天仍在发挥巨大的作用。它的形体经历了甲骨文到楷书的演变。在漫长的发展历程中,汉字"正体"与异体并存,繁简也在互相转化。从汉字的历史演变看,繁化总是少数的,总的发展趋势是简化,简化有着广泛的群众基础。由简入繁是不符合汉字发展的历史潮流的。

The Chinese script, since its invention, has been making inestimable contributions to the economic and social development of China. The form of the Chinese script witnesses changes from jiaguwen, the script inscribed in bones and tortoise shells to kaishu, the modern standard form. During the long course of the formal development of the Chinese script, the ＂standard＂ form and the ＂variant＂ form coexist; the complex form and the simplified form also changeinto each other. Observed from the history of formal changes of the Chinese script, the form of the Chinese script tend to be simplified, because its simplification is supported by the masses, while its complication go against the historical trend of the development of the Chinese language.