Why do some people think Chinese characters are backward? What do you think of this problem?

The view that Chinese characters are backward characters is a mechanical understanding of western scholars when they study the types of characters. They associate the writing system with the development stages of characters. Therefore, almost without exception, they classified Chinese characters into a lower and backward development stage.

For example, Bloomfield believes that there are five stages in the development of characters: hieroglyphs, ideographs (ideographs), syllables and pinyin, while Chinese characters belong to ideographs (ideographs) and belong to the third stage. So it's considered backwards.

Pinyin writing is the fifth stage, so they also regard western languages as the highest stage of writing development and the most perfect writing, while Chinese characters are backward writing. The most fundamental problem of this view is that it is divorced from the basic concept that "words are symbols of recording languages". What kind of writing system a nation adopts is determined by the characteristics of its language structure.

As long as the writing system is mature and adapted to the national language, it conforms to the law of development, and there is no distinction between high and low, and there is no distinction between good and bad.

The History of Chinese Characters in China;

The development of Chinese characters in China has gone through more than 6000 years. Chinese characters are profound, magical and wonderful poetic language. Only Chinese characters and Chinese can create the most unique literary and artistic forms in the history of world literature and art, such as classical Chinese, poems, songs, poems, couplets and so on. The calligraphy art of Chinese characters, seal cutting, is not as good as painting, which is popular all over the world and makes the world fall for it.

China's poems, especially metrical poems and quatrains, are flat and even, with sonorous beauty, formal beauty of antithesis words and harmonious beauty of rhyming sentences. Therefore, carrying forward Chinese character culture has become a problem that can not be ignored in the information age. Don't let the Chinese character culture gradually withdraw from the historical stage and drown in the torrent of various codes.