He says that modern chinese children can directly read the analects of Confucius but China has simplified characters right? I was told that taiwanese and HK people who still use the older characters are more able to read the ancient texts than the PRCs. If you lie about simple things like this to build the myth of homogeneity (China isn't) and continuity with the past (when the commies actively destroyed the past!), you harm your own credibility.
True, traditional Chinese characters has another level of complexity that otherwise using simplifed Chinese character can change the entire meaning.
One example which was a translation joke is 干爆鸭 which lol got translated to fu-ck the duck till it exploded.
Because the traditional character is 乾 (dry) become 干,at the same time another character 幹 (to do) also become 干
Thus 乾爆鸭 has one meaning but 干爆鸭 can have two meaning which gave birth to fu-ck the duck till it exploded. Lmao
Yet now Chinese so aggressive at Singapore say we let our Chinese standard down, cannot speak chinese now and we 崇洋媚外 suck up to America etc want to speak English , but they being an actual native Chinese speaking society is the one who actually let down the ancestor Chinese standard.
So sorry say what 5000 years Chinese culture? After cultural revolution to deny the wisdom of the 5000 years, the current Chinese is only 50 years or even less of culture.