1950 On August 9, the Social Education Department of the Ministry of Education held a symposium on the research and selection of simplified characters, and agreed on four principles for the selection of simplified characters:

1. Sort out and screen the popular simplified characters, and make appropriate supplements according to the existing simplified rules when necessary;

2. The simplified characters selected and supplemented are mainly regular script, sometimes running script or cursive script, but we must pay attention to easy writing and printing;

3. The selection and supplement of simplified characters are limited to the most commonly used Chinese characters, and it is not necessary to simplify every difficult Chinese character;

4. After the simplified characters are selected, the Central Ministry of Education shall report to the Central People's Government the State Council for promulgation and implementation.

According to the above principles, the Social Education Department of the Central Ministry of Education extensively collected information and compiled the Registration Form of Commonly Used Simplified Characters. Candidates mainly put forward some opinions on the selection principles of simplified characters, such as "the selection of simplified characters should follow the established principles" and "only a few simplified characters can be used in cursive script".

The Social Education Department of the Central Ministry of Education has reconsidered the selection principle of simplified characters, and decided to choose simplified characters in full accordance with the spirit of "words can't convey enough meaning", and pay due attention to reducing the number of commonly used Chinese characters, and try to merge characters with different forms or characters that can be used together. 195 1 year, the first simplified word list (first draft) was drawn up.

1February 5, 952, under the planning of the Central Ministry of Education, the China Character Reform Association was reorganized and merged with other institutions to form the China Character Reform Research Committee.

On March 25th, 1952, the Chinese Character Reorganization Group of China Chinese Character Reform Research Committee was established. The Chinese Character Classification Group redefined four principles for writing simplified Chinese characters:

1. The existing simplified characters should not be described by words, and simplified characters should not be created separately. However, if there are no common characters with simplified strokes, you may wish to find simplified characters;

2. Simplified Chinese characters should be printed, and the structure should be similar to handwriting. Radical simplification can be compared;

3. Variants are treated separately in this group, and substitutes are not included in this table for the time being;

4. When the list of simplified characters is published, the simplified characters are the main ones, and the notes are traditional. According to the order of the first stroke, the first stroke is the same as the second stroke, and a two-word lookup table is attached, which is simplified according to pronunciation and simplified according to traditional Chinese characters.

1952 In the second half of the year, the Chinese Character Sorting Group of China Character Reform Research Committee drew up the first draft of Simplified List of Commonly Used Chinese Characters, and collected 700 simplified Chinese characters. After reading the manuscript, Mao Zedong pointed out that these 700 simplified characters were not simple enough. To simplify Chinese characters, we should use cursive script more, find out the laws of simplification, make basic shapes and simplify them regularly.

1 95310 June1day, the party central Committee of China * * * production party established the central people's Committee.

1954 10.8 was reorganized by China Character Reform Research Association. With the approval of the second session of the First NPC Standing Committee, China Character Reform Committee was established, which is directly affiliated to the State Council.

1954165438+1October 30th, the first meeting of the Standing Committee of China Language and Character Reform Committee decided to make necessary amendments to the fifth draft of Simplified List of Commonly Used Chinese Characters. On the basis of the fifth draft, the Chinese character sorting group compiled the Simplified Chinese Character Draft (798 simplified Chinese characters, 400 variants to be abolished, and 25/kloc-0 simplified Chinese characters).

1955 1, China Character Reform Commission, Ministry of Education, General Political Department of China People's Liberation Army and All-China Federation of Trade Unions jointly issued a notice, and issued 300,000 draft simplified Chinese characters for comments. During the more than half a year from the publication of the Draft Scheme for Simplifying Chinese Characters to July of the same year, the China Character Reform Commission received 5 167 letters and opinions from people from all walks of life, and the number of people participating in the discussion reached 200,000, of which 97% were in favor of the Draft Scheme for Simplifying Chinese Characters (Contemporary China Character Reform, Contemporary China Publishing House, 1995).

1955 July 13 According to the proposal of the Chinese Character Reform Committee of China, the State Council established the Examination and Approval Committee for the Simplified Chinese Character Scheme.

1September, 1955, the Chinese Character Reform Commission of China drafted the revised draft of Chinese Character Simplification Scheme, which deleted 400 drafts of variant characters to be abolished and the draft of simplified radicals of handwritten Chinese characters, adjusted the number of simplified characters from the original draft to 5 12, and added 56 simplified radicals. Decided not to solve the variant characters in the simplified scheme, and drew up the first draft of variant characters.

1955 10 6 15-23, the China Character Reform Commission and the Ministry of Education jointly held a national character reform conference. During the meeting, 19 simplified characters in the revised Chinese Character Simplification Scheme were revised, and one simplified character radical was cancelled. The meeting unanimously adopted the revised Chinese character simplification scheme and the first batch of variant forms. After the meeting, the China Language Reform Commission adjusted the revised version of the simplified Chinese character scheme according to the resolution of the meeting. The number of simplified characters increased from 5 12 to 5 15, and the number of simplified word radicals decreased from 56 to 54. The revised draft was reviewed and approved by the the State Council Chinese Character Simplification Scheme Application Committee.

1955, the first batch of variant forms was published.

1956 65438+1On October 28th, the 23rd plenary meeting of the State Council adopted the Resolution on Promulgating Simplified Chinese Characters Scheme.

1956 65438+1October 3 1 People's Daily published the State Council's resolution on publishing simplified Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. Legal simplified characters have achieved the status of orthography in today's Chinese mainland.

1957, China launched an "anti-rightist struggle", and many intellectuals were persecuted for objecting to "simplification of Chinese characters" and "pinyin scheme of Chinese characters". Since then, the question about the simplification of Chinese characters in Chinese mainland has been stifled.

1February 4, 964, the State Council agreed 19641October 7, China Language Reform Commission's request for instructions on simplifying Chinese characters was reported, and the State Council's notice on agreeing with China Language Reform Commission's request for instructions on simplifying Chinese characters was issued.

1964 in may, China language reform commission published a summary of simplified characters.