From time to time on the Internet, parents share photos of their children's homework being circled wrong by the teacher.
Chairman of the Democratic Party, Law Kin-hee, posted a post on a social platform, sharing that some websites pointed out that the word "ci" at the beginning of cursive is the correct word.
He pointed out that characters are established by convention, and he even asked how teaching children to write in a way that is not commonly used by ordinary people will help education, growth and the development of Chinese characters?
The source of the matter is that Luo Jianxi discovered in the wording website "Hong Kong Elementary School Learning Words List" that the character "慈" often written by Hong Kong people is listed as a variant character, while the "恋" at the beginning of the cursive character is the orthodox character.
Law Kin-hee pointed out that there is no difference between the traditional and simplified Chinese characters and the usage in Mainland and Hong Kong. He bluntly said that he was very puzzled: "All the official documents of the Hong Kong government use "慈", while the mainland government uses "恋", which can exclude any political discussions. However, it's just that someone who came from somewhere wanted to list "ci" as authentic, and "ci" suddenly became a variant.
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Luo Jianxi then looked up the word in "Kangxi Dictionary" and "Shuowen Jiezi", and found that the ancients mostly wrote "ci" except in seal script.
He questioned the "List of Vocabulary for Learning in Primary Schools in Hong Kong": "Is there a high-ranking person who thinks that "ci" is authentic and "ci" is a variant, and does not think that it is purely a difference in the fonts of bronze script, seal script, regular script, and cursive script?
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Luo Jianxi said that he believes that characters are constantly evolving, so even if some characters are variants, after the convention is established, unless there is a big discrepancy with the etymology of the characters, he will not think there is any major problem.
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