As a communication tool, simplification of Chinese characters is a trend, because simple writing can improve work efficiency and facilitate communication and learning. From the perspective of development history, the same is true. Since the earliest time in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Chinese characters have various shapes, sizes and variations.

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The ancient Chinese was very complicated, but the modern Chinese characters are much simpler. From pictographic hieroglyphs to non-pictographic writing symbols; The shape of strokes has gradually changed from painting-like lines to horizontal, vertical, skimming, dot and folding strokes; The structure and strokes of many words are gradually simplified; There are many variants of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen, but there are fewer variants of Xiao Zhuan and regular script.

The influence of Chinese characters

Chinese characters have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only inheritors of the ancient Otomachi system. Chinese characters have always been the main official language in China.

In ancient times, Chinese characters were also used as the only international communication language in East Asia. Before the 20th century, they were still the official written standard characters of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and Ryukyu, and all East Asian countries created their own Chinese characters to some extent. Japanese, Korean Peninsula, Vietnamese and other countries are deeply influenced by China culture in history, and even other languages have borrowed Chinese characters.