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Research status of Chinese characters
Under the background of the modernization of China's language and writing, the discipline construction and theoretical research of philology meet the needs of practice, and important progress has been made in the exploration and construction of the theoretical system of philology and the research on the basic theoretical problems of Chinese characters, which provides theoretical support for the formulation and implementation of the national language and writing policy.

On the basis of rethinking the traditional "Six Books" theory, contemporary scholars continue to explore the theory of Chinese character configuration, and put forward the new "Three Books" theory of "expressing meaning, pictophonetic sound and borrowing", the theory and analysis method of Chinese character configuration, and the dynamic development of Chinese character configuration mode. , developed the theory and analysis method of Chinese character structure, and improved the scientific analysis level of Chinese characters.

While the study of ancient Chinese characters is flourishing, the study of modern Chinese characters has also sprung up and made great progress. Modern Chinese characters are a concept put forward relative to the pre-Qin ancient characters, which some scholars call the script in the official script stage. In recent decades, the study of modern Chinese characters has revealed the occurrence of official changes, the formation of official scripts and the ancient and modern evolution of Chinese characters by using Qin and Han written materials. Based on epitaphs, bamboo slips and manuscripts of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties.

This paper systematically sorts out and studies the written materials since Wei and Jin Dynasties, reveals the formation of regular script and various abnormal phenomena, and produces a number of influential new achievements. The achievements made in the arrangement, research and theoretical discussion of difficult words in commonly used words, dictionaries and Buddhist scriptures can best reflect the academic level of modern Chinese character research. The historical and theoretical research on the development of ancient and modern Chinese characters has become the frontier field of current philology research, and philology has continuously introduced high-level new achievements.