Simplified Chinese characters are the logical result of the evolution of Chinese characters. Chinese characters have changed from oracle bone inscription and golden script to seal script, and then to official script and regular script, and its general trend is to change from complex to simple.

Lishu is a simplification of seal script, cursive script and line script are simplifications of Lishu, and simplified Chinese characters are the simplification of regular script.

Regular script began to appear in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and simplified characters have been seen in the inscriptions of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (4th-6th centuries), and by the Sui and Tang dynasties, simplified characters gradually increased, and were quite common among the people, known as "vulgar characters"

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Many of the simplified words we use today began to appear at this time, such as "battalion"

, "Shou"

, "End"

, "Enemy"

, "Following"

, "Candle"

, "Strong"

, Qi

, "Yuan"

, "Lou"

, "Gu"

, "Dedication"

, "Change"

, "Lamp"

, "Grave"

, "Donkey"

Wait a minute.

In the Tang Dynasty, Yan Yuansun's "Ganlu Character Book" and Wang Ren's [Japanese sentences] wrote "Publication Fallacies and Fill in the Gaps and Cut Rhymes", both of which received a lot of vulgar characters.

After the Song Dynasty, with the invention of printing, simplified characters were transferred from inscriptions and handwriting to engraving and printing books, thus expanding the popularity of simplified characters, and the number increased greatly.

According to the "Song and Yuan Dynasty Folk Character Genealogy", the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties used in 12 kinds of folk engravings used as many as 6,240 simplified characters, combined into a total of 1,604 traditional characters, with an average of 3.9 different simplified characters for each traditional character, and the simplified characters used today are exactly the same as "real"

, "Treasure"

, "Listen"

, "10,000"

, "Rite"

, "Old"

, AND

, "Zhuang"

, "Dream"

, "Although"

, "Medicine"

, "Yang"

, "Phoenix"

, "Sound"

, "Righteousness"

, "Chaos"

, "Taiwan"

, "Party"

, "Return"

, "Do"

, "Words"

, "Break"

, "Luo"

, "Yes"

, "Pity"

, "Huai"

and so on, more than 330 in total.