Simply Chinese: Recipes from a Chinese Home Kitchen

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FluentU takes authentic videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons. Traditional characters are generally used in very formal business settings, as well as in any situation involving high-level professional writing (contracts, government papers, etc.). Regardless of which political or social viewpoint you have, you should aim to understand the differences between simplified and traditional Chinese characters.

Cantonese cooking is all about playing around with simple and fresh ingredients. It's about making use of all those flavours and letting the dish do its thing. It's not as complicated as people think - everyone should give it a try," she enthuses.The traditional writing system is regarded as being richer in meaning than simplified. There are historical cultural references as well as pictorial descriptions that reflect the thinking of earlier times. But what’s the difference between traditional and simplified Chinese? Which is more common? Where in the world are the two used? The language in children’s books is simple, easy and most likely contains a lot of characters you are already familiar with. The first batch of simplified characters, introduced in 1935 and retracted in 1936, totaled 324 entries

It’s also used by anyone who wants to stand out from others, similar to how cursive script fonts might be used in the States to represent elegance. This is why pinyin was invented and promoted around the same time. The simplified characters were developed and promoted in education systems in the 1950s with the goal of increasing literacy, especially among the older population.Yen, Yuehping (2005). Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31753-3.

The arguments for a simplified character set began in the early 1900s, but simplification wasn’t implemented until the People’s Republic of China was formed in 1949. Interestingly, the eventual goal of character simplification was to completely romanize the Chinese writing system. It is common for Hong Kongers to learn traditional Chinese characters in school, as well as some simplified characters incidentally, usually by consuming media produced on the mainland. For use on computers, however, people tend to type Chinese characters using an IME with a traditional character set, such as Big5. In Hong Kong, as well as elsewhere, it is common for people to use both sets, due to the ease of conversion between the two sets. [ clarification needed] Taiwan [ edit ]All characters simplified this way are enumerated in Chart 1 and Chart 2 in the 1986 Complete List. Characters in both charts are structurally simplified based on similar set of principles. They are separated into two charts to clearly mark those in Chart 2 as 'usable as simplified character components', based on which Chart 3 is derived. [note 4] In South Korea, universities have used predominantly simplified characters since 1990s. In high school, Chinese is one of the selective subjects. By the regulation of the national curricula standards, MPS I and traditional characters had been originally used before (since the 1940s), but by the change of regulation, pinyin and simplified characters have been used to pupils who enter the school in 1996 or later. Therefore, MPS I and traditional characters disappeared after 1998 in South Korean high school Chinese curriculum. This Chinese Keyboard enables you to easily type Chinese online without installing Chinese keyboard. You can use your computer keyboard or mouse to type Chinese characters with this virtual keyboard. Look at the example in the picture above. The blue characters are in traditional Chinese. The red characters are in simplified Chinese. Do you see any differences? Simplified Chinese characters are formed based on traditional Chinese characters and some are transformed from Chinese cursive calligraphy styles. Traditional characters looked (and often still look) like the “idea” behind them – the meaning; hence “ideograms”.