Embracing Tradition: The Nikkei Chinese Network switches to Traditional Chinese Characters and Ignites Controversy

2023-11-07 01:24:00

International Center/Reported by Huang Yunxuan

Many foreign media have Chinese platforms, but most of them use “simplified Chinese characters”. However, “Nihon Keizai Shimbun”, in addition to “Nikkei Chinese Network” that can choose traditional Chinese characters, announced on the 6th that it will use “X Account” The use of traditional Chinese characters sparked heated discussions.

The X platform account (formerly Twitter) of “Nikkei Chinese Network” announced on the 6th, “From today on, the X account of Nikkei Chinese Network will try to use traditional Chinese characters.” The post sparked heated discussions among netizens, with some netizens laughingly saying “Xi Jinping doesn’t like this post”, “This is right”, “This is a good start”, and after that post, a large number of posts in traditional Chinese did begin to appear, with only a few in simplified Chinese.

▲”Nikkei Chinese Network” announced that it will start using traditional Chinese characters. (Picture/reproduced from Nikkei Chinese website X)

But there are many little pink collapse acid “It is recommended to use oracle bone script and seal script to be more “correct””, “Sure enough, the limelight has turned again”, “I am used to simplified characters, the meaning of simplified versus traditional Chinese is actually the progress of the times”, “Complex strokes for daily writing The Chinese characters cannot bring even a slight improvement to your brain. The fonts are complex and difficult to write and difficult to understand. These shortcomings have become the advantages that you are proud of. With all due respect, a bunch of traditional Chinese characters are written on paper. Like a bunch of disgusting maggots.”

However, most netizens left comments praising “the traditional Chinese fonts are beautiful and worth inheriting”, “traditional Chinese characters are supported”, “great! This is traditional Chinese”, “it would be better if the logo, title and introduction were all changed to traditional Chinese characters” , “It should have been like this a long time ago”, “Traditional Chinese characters are the real Chinese characters”, “No problem, you don’t even need to explain it, just change it directly”, “You can understand both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, they are all Chinese characters”.

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