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The ancient written standard was Classical Chinese, also known as Traditional Chinese. In the beginning, writing was done on oracles bones, bronze artifacts, sand or tortoise shell and this system was in use for thousands of years. Classical language was mostly used by writers, scholars and intellectuals who constituted the “high” class of the society called “shi da fu (士大夫）”. In Ancient China. It was very difficult to be considered as High-class writer, scholars and intellectuals without passing written exams in Classical Chinese. Chinese Classical character writing with specific strokes was comparatively more difficult than Modern Chinese. For example { ( Chinese Language- 漢語 ( Hanyu- Classical) & 汉语- Hanyu ( Simplified ) }
The Chinese strokes, characters and grammar developed slowly developed owing to the efforts of the high class intellectuals and it started getting more popular among other writers and artist.
The classical works were not developed much during Shang and Qin dynasty. 618-907 BC Tang dynasty onwards witnessed a poetic flow andthe Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature were written during the Ming ( 1868-1677 )and Qing ( 1644-1911) Dynasties. Printmaking in the form of movable type was developed during the Song ( 960- 1279 ) Dynasty. Academies of scholars sponsored by the empire were formed to comment on the classics in both printed and handwritten form. Royalty frequently participated in these discussions as well. Chinese philosophers, writers and poets were highly respected and played key roles in preserving and promoting the culture of the empire. Some classical scholars, however, were noted for their daring depictions of the lives of the common people, often to the displeasure of authorities.
At beginning of the 20th century, most of the population were still illiterate, and the different dialects (Mandarin, Wu, Yue (Cantonese), Min Nan (Ban-lam-gu), Jin, Xiang, Hakka, Gan, Hui, Ping etc.) in different regions prevented communication with people from other areas. Nevertheless, the written language kept the communication open and enabled passing of official orders and documents throughout the entire region of China. Later reformers set out to establish a national language, settling on the Beijing-based Mandarin as the spoken form. After the May 4th Movement, Classical Chinese was quickly replaced by written vernacular Chinese, modelled after the vocabulary and grammar of the standard spoken language call Putonghua.
Now the standardized Chinese ( Putonghua- Simplified Mandarin) has become the official language of China, Taiwan and is also one of the four official languages of Singapore and sixth official language of United Nations.
[tag Chinese Dialect Mandarin PingYue (incl. Cantonese, Taishanese) Hakka Min (Amoy, Teochew, Fuzhou)Xiang Gan Hui Zhou Wu (incl. Shanghainese)Jin ]