Macau: Historical Gem Along the Chinese Coast

Macau: The historic jewelry along the coast of China faces the South China Sea, 65 kilometers west of Hong Kong, the first and last European base camp in Asia in Macao, Asia. Macau is currently one of the special administrative provinces of China, a double city, Portuguese culture is intertwined with Chinese culture and is represented by the number of historical buildings in the area. The economic prosperity led by gambling, the main factor in the tourism industry in Macau, was the past in this region and the Portuguese roots close to China.

In Hong Kong and Macao, Traditional Chinese has been legally written since colonial era. In recent years, Simplified Chinese characters in Hong Kong and Macau seem to be suitable for tourists and immigrants in Mainland China. This caused many residents to worry about protecting their local heritage. Taiwan has never used Simplified Chinese to date. The Taiwanese government prohibits the use of simplified letters in official documents. Taiwanese highly educated people will understand some simplified scripts to some extent and learning to read them hardly requires effort. Several stroke simplifications built into Simplified Chinese are commonly used in handwriting. For example, Taiwan's name is written in Taiwan, but semi-simplified names in Taiwan can also be written in official documents.

The People's Republic of China officially uses Simplified Chinese characters in Mainland, Singapore, Malaysia and the United Nations. Currently, the Republic of China uses traditional Chinese characters in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Traditional Chinese characters are commonly used in overseas Chinese communities, but simplified letters are increasing in popularity among Chinese immigrants. At the same time, the traditional figures of the People's Republic of China are increasingly famous. There is intense debate among those who support the use of simplified letters and those who believe they have weakened the traditional Chinese culture and that there are opportunities for more confusion and more misunderstanding among Chinese people It only brings with political implications.

Traditional Chinese is currently used in Hong Kong, Macao, Republic of China (Taiwan). Many Chinese mainland and Chinese communities in Malaysia and Singapore still can read and understand the traditional role, but these groups usually retain the use of simplified letters. Overseas Chinese communities tend to use traditional letters. Simplified Chinese characters can be cited in the above official name or in the proverb (Simplified Chinese, jiǎntǐzì). The latter refers to the simplification of the letter "structure" or "body" that exists for thousands of years and has a regular and more complicated shape. On the other hand, the official name is a simplified character set of the modern system (explained by Mao Zedong chairman in 1952, as well as a simplification of the structure, including a significant reduction of the total number of standardized kanji There is a point).