Recently, a foreign expert from a certain university in China published an article stating that he conducted an experiment testing three Chinese doctoral students from Peking University and found that they could not remember how to write the character "xie" for "sneeze". Based on this, he inferred that "Chinese character amnesia" is becoming increasingly common in Chinese society. Objectively speaking, the phenomenon of "forgetting characters when picking up a pen" mentioned by this expert does exist to a certain extent, and is particularly concentrated in some relatively rare and complex Chinese characters. This is not actually a brand new "discovery", and many researchers have noticed this issue over the years. As early as 2006, a sampling survey conducted by a program team of CCTV showed that among over 4000 respondents, 48% of them "occasionally find it difficult" to write, while 28% of them said "often find it difficult"; In 2013, according to a survey conducted by a certain organization, 94.1% of respondents had forgotten to write with their pens, and 26.8% of them frequently forgot to write with their pens. This is largely due to the increasing popularity of "pinyin" input on computers and mobile phone keyboards, which has squeezed the opportunity for traditional handwriting to appear and resulted in the phenomenon of "using in and discarding". Therefore, some people also question whether "picking up a pen and writing" is still a necessary skill for human development in the information age? What is the meaning of Chinese characters, such as "spelling" characters? Firstly, 'Chinese character amnesia' is actually a problem attached to the convenience of current Chinese character processing methods, rather than a fundamental issue. For a considerable period of time since the May Fourth Movement, there have been widespread discussions about the "future" of Chinese characters, and there has been a trend towards the pinyin of Chinese characters. From the results, it can be seen that although pinyin accelerated the popularization of Mandarin at that time, it was difficult to carry the profound Chinese culture semantically and could not form an efficient mode in dissemination. Therefore, it was gradually abandoned by the mainstream development of Chinese characters. The teaching mode of Chinese characters based on "spelling" and supplemented by spelling was also established after historical verification. The reason why Pinyin input methods have won the competition with Wubi input methods in the information age is that the former has a lower threshold for relearning the "letter root" key map than the latter, rather than "Pinyin" surpassing "Pinyin". Secondly, in the field of non keyboard input, the processing of Chinese characters is not only not slower than that of pinyin characters, but also demonstrates multiple advantages. On the one hand, many studies have demonstrated that Chinese characters, as a unique ideographic script, have some advantages over pinyin scripts in enhancing the visual thinking ability of school-age children. On the other hand, writing is the most important carrier of culture and the most important way of presenting civilization forms. Chinese characters are the only characters in the human classical writing system that have been passed down to this day and still maintain strong vitality. They have maintained relative stability and continuity in their development and evolution, and are the symbol and gene of Chinese cultural inheritance. Mastering Chinese characters is like holding the key to the treasure trove of Chinese culture, where one can receive nourishment and empowerment from Chinese culture anytime and anywhere; On the contrary, it is like South Korea, which has been comprehensively promoting the "de Sinicization" for more than 50 years. Nowadays, few young people can understand their country's ancient books and inscriptions, resulting in the interruption of historical and cultural inheritance. Chinese character amnesia is actually a syndrome. In addition to the main impact of Pinyin keyboard input, its causes also include reduced rigor in typing and communication through social media, interference from common public space expressions such as "playing with memes". Therefore, in order to solve the social problem of "forgetting words when picking up a pen", comprehensive measures are needed. Firstly, optimize the efficiency of handwriting input recognition in electronic products, innovate personalized fonts and other handwriting input presentation methods, increase the participation and proportion of writing in the interaction of the information age, and find a balance between convenience and tradition. Secondly, launch more interesting and culturally rich text-based variety shows to attract more people to value the beauty of Chinese characters. The "Chinese Character Dictation Competition" and "Chinese Character Heroes" launched in 2013 have achieved good ratings and aroused many people's love and attention to learning Chinese characters. Thirdly, media and platforms should strike a balance when dealing with online behaviors such as "playing with memes" and creating words. They should firmly oppose and stop "playing with memes" and creating words that do not respect the normativity of language, excessively distort the inherent structure or cultural core of language, and guide public opinion value judgments that respect culture. Practice has fully demonstrated the powerful vitality of Chinese characters in terms of dissemination and meaning. The phenomenon of "forgetting characters when picking up a pen" is a temporary problem caused by the mainstream keyboard input mode in the information age. For Chinese characters that have crossed the long river of history and have deep cultural roots, it is like a storm that cannot shake the foundation. No matter how the times change or technology innovates, the inheritors should do the same thing: stimulate people's interest in the cultural connotations carried by Chinese characters, and make Chinese character culture last forever. (New Society)