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RE: Travel with me #31: Guanzhong's Folk Village and the incredible art on the doors!
The art and architecture of 中国 has always been beautiful to me.
I am thankful for the translation, thus I can practice reading a little bit.
I like the older version of 国. (Does the pictograph look like emperor in a box to you? I am unsure of my font) I liked the complexity of the older pictograph, with river, emperor, rice and house in a box, for country. (and I may have that wrong) Thank you
You're right, the old character for 国 is written as 國.
Simplified Chinese was a necessity due to China having a large population of people who were unable to read an write. Learning the traditional characters proved to be a difficult task. However, I agree that the Traditional characters have more meaning and are prettier to look at too!