Do you have to be able to write traditional Chinese characters to study literature?

Do you have to be able to write traditional Chinese characters to study literature? Do you have to be able to write traditional Chinese characters to study literature? unfold

Answer 1

To study literature, one did not need to know how to write traditional Chinese characters. In the mainland of China, the Department of Literature usually used simplified Chinese characters as teaching language and writing standards. In Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, traditional Chinese characters were widely used. Therefore, if one studied literature in these places, they might come into contact with some traditional Chinese characters, but this was not a necessary condition for studying literature.

Studying literature was not only to master traditional Chinese characters, because literary works were usually presented in simplified Chinese characters, so reading and understanding literary works did not require a complete mastery of traditional Chinese characters. However, for undergraduate students in the literature department, there might be some related courses that required them to teach traditional Chinese characters, such as introduction to literature, literary creation, etc.