Why does Singapore also write in Chinese?

Among the local residents, Chinese Singaporeans account for 75.2%, Malays account for 13.6%, Indians (mostly Tamils) account for 8.8%, and Eurasian mixed-race population and other ethnic groups (including Nyangnya) account for 2.4%. Therefore, Singapore is not only the country or region with the highest population density in the world except Macau and Monaco, but also the country or region with the largest Chinese population in the world except Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province.

Chinese Singaporeans mainly come from Chinese mainland, Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan, with Fujian as the majority, followed by chaozhou people, Guangfu, Hakka and Hainan. Coupled with the increasing number of new immigrants from China in recent years, the cultural composition of Chinese people is becoming more and more complicated.

Since more than half of the Chinese in Singapore use Fujian Minnan, Singapore has become another area where Minnan is widely used after China's hometown of Minnan and Taiwan Province Province. However, after the "Speak Mandarin Campaign" led by the Singapore government in the1980s (similar to "promoting Putonghua" in China), a new generation of Chinese Singaporeans have become accustomed to using Putonghua in Singapore and Malaysia.

Singapore officially uses simplified Chinese characters consistent with China. However, during the period from 1969 to 1979, he had his own simplified standard of Chinese characters for a short time. See Singapore Chinese characters for details. Chinese characters mixed with simplified and traditional Chinese characters can be seen everywhere among the people.

Malays lived mainly in early Singapore, and its earliest literature records originated from China in the 3rd century. In the14th century, the Ming Dynasty called Singapore Temasek1819 65438+10. On October 29th, Stanford Raffles, an employee of the British East India Company, landed in Singapore and began to take charge of the area. 1824, Singapore officially became a British colony, which was originally under the jurisdiction of the British Indian colonial authorities.18824.108888888886