After the "International Symposium on Chinese Characters" was held in Beijing in June+10, 5438, the Korean Chosun Ilbo reported that in order to prevent communication confusion caused by the use of Chinese characters with different shapes in East Asian countries, South Korea led scholars from China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan Province Province of China to produce 5,000-6,000 commonly used standardized Chinese characters based on traditional Chinese characters. This news was immediately denied by the representatives of China who attended the meeting. They suggested that "simplified characters" are legal characters in China and will not be easily changed. The dispute over Chinese characters between China and South Korea is in the ascendant, and some netizens are enthusiastic about the application for Chinese characters put forward by Korean scholars.
In fact, Chinese character application has been hot in Korea for more than a year. Last year, Chosun Ilbo reported that Park Jong-soo, a history professor at Seoul National University, said that after ten years of research and textual research, it was believed that the Korean people first invented Chinese characters, and then the Koreans moved to the Central Plains and brought Chinese characters to China, thus forming the present China culture. He will suggest that the South Korean government confidently restore Chinese characters and apply to the United Nations to make Chinese characters a world cultural heritage.
An article published on the English website of Chinese Studies (www.chinalanguage.com) can represent the thoughts of many Koreans who hold this view. This article claims that "Dongyi people are Korean and the creators of Dawenkou culture. The characters called' Chinese characters' may have been invented by Koreans. "
When reviewing the debate about the origin of Chinese characters on China language website, netizens were surprised to find that it actually happened in 2002. Everyone searched and found that the topic of "Koreans invented Chinese characters" was heated in international forums such as Google Forum. The representative view is: "Before Shang Dynasty, Koreans lived in Shandong. Later, Koreans entered the Central Plains to establish the Shang Dynasty and invented a script (Chinese characters), but this script could not adapt to all tribal languages. Only the Huaxia tribe endured and developed its own language, and the Zhou Dynasty defeated the Shang Dynasty. After the Koreans withdrew from the Central Plains, they abandoned Chinese characters and re-used the previous Korean language. "
"This is a plagiarism of China culture." A netizen studying in South Korea, "My China Heart", expressed indignation. He said: "A doctor from a famous North Korean school discussed with me and vowed that Oracle Bone Inscriptions spread to the Central Plains from the Korean Peninsula. You know, Korea didn't have its own writing until the15th century. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), it was forbidden to use Chinese characters. Almost all the history books "referenced" by Korean scholars are China history books written in Chinese characters. They have no written history before. "
Who cares? It's ours in China, and South Korea can't take it away!
Don't worry.