Which other countries are affected by Chinese characters

In history, Chinese characters had a great influence on the culture of neighboring countries. In recent years, along with the rapid development of Chinese economy and each country’s consciousness of protecting traditional culture, a new wave of Chinese fever began in the previous Chinese cultural circle.

Korea: go ahead with China in Chinese character.

A few years ago, if a Korean wanted to learn Chinese and Chinese characters, he would not be understood by people. Today, relevant news about Koreans learning Chinese characters actively can be found where through the South Korean media. In South Korea, Ministry of Education now regulates that: during the 6 years of junior and senior middle school, students need to master a number of 1,800 Chinese characters. Chinese characters have become a must subject in primary school. Recently, many universities not only open specially the class of Chinese characters, but also offer special lectures on Chinese characters in winter holiday. Even among prisoners there are also starting fashions to learn Chinese characters. Those who get outstanding achievement can be reduced sentences. Chinese characters can be seen everywhere in the streets of Korea. The name of subway, book titles, Business cards, billboards, trademark... written by Chinese characters appears to be more learned and elegant. The fashion to learn Chinese characters in South Korea recently is due to the pressing needs of enterprises and markets. The mainland of China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Japan are the main export markets occupying over 40% of the total. China is the biggest investor to South Korea. 70 percent of tourists in South Korea belong to the Chinese culture circle. Meanwhile, South Korean people increasingly recognized that traditional eastern culture and knowledge based on Chinese characters. Only understanding its causes, and on the basis of Chinese characters, Korea can set up its own civilization, enjoy more rich culture than any other country, and cultivate the ability to think independently.

Vietnam: the history is connected with Chinese characters

Vietnam has used Chinese characters before the 19th century. Many historiographies, literary works were written in Chinese characters. In the early 16th century, western missionaries came to Vietnam in succession. What they first met was the language barrier; they must first learned to say Vietnamese. Because learning Chinese was very difficult, they began trying to use their native language to record the Vietnamese pronunciation. There were about 200 years for Vietnamese Latinized words from the pinyin experiment to Latinized system formed. Until the 1940s, Latin words began in Vietnam, becoming the formal characters. The Latinized Vietnamese characters are a kind of characters with inscriptions, Read and write was the same, so they are easy to popularize. ALL Modern Vietnamese words are Latin letters, while no longer any Chinese characters. However, Chinese characters still play an important role in the contemporary society and folk-custom of Vietnam .People in the wedding always have the red double "xi" word (meaning being happiest), and the custom of posting couplet of Chinese characters in the Spring Festival At any a temple in Vietnam, the first view is the elegant handwriting Chinese couplet, but Vietnamese who can recognize and appreciate Chinese couplet is rare. In recent years, along with the reform and opening up, Vietnam laid a foundation for Chinese heat when increasingly cooperate with the mainland of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places in business and trade ,In Vietnam, the Chinese have become the most popular foreign language except English. Students entering for an examination of Chinese were full every year. Chinese classes are everywhere in the society. For the Vietnamese beginners, it is not difficult hear and speak. The most difficult is Chinese handwriting and how to memorize. Local people tend to like those Chinese pinyin which are the same with Vietnamese features.

Japan: many people want to keep Chinese

Chinese characters are not new to Japanese. Japanese not only like to read poetry but also like to write Chinese characters. However, since Japan always take rejection of mandarin Chinese after world war II, modern Japanese youth are More and more alienated to Chinese characters , especially because of paying serious attention to English, more Chinese and Japanese vocabularies being replaced by transliteration pseudonyms. Therefore, older people complain that the worlds young people used are loan word now, they can not understand gradually.

Nonetheless, Chinese characters occupy a very important position in Japanese life. Japan has special institutes to identify Chinese character. Every year this association will vote by people to choose the most representative Chinese character. In 2006, the Chinese elected is "life". This is mainly because for the first time in 2006, a boy was born in the royal during 41 years. In addition, suicides and child abusing to death occurred frequently in society. To choose "life" is to remind people to pay attention to life. According to the association, there are 240 million people accepting Chinese exams in 2005, and this number has a rising trend. Passing the verification is not only good for the entrance examination of university but also for the entrance examination of senior middle school. In Japan, more and more colleges and high schools consider students' Chinese passing the verification is not only good for the entrance examination of university but also for the entrance examination of senior middle school. In Japan, more and more colleges and high schools consider students' Chinese ability as the admission basis.

Wang Mengqin