According to the principle of following the common and simple, one character from each group was selected as the correct (or standard) form, and the rest are eliminated.
[5] On 28 January 1956, the 23rd State Council Plenary Meeting passed the Resolution on the Promulgation of the "Chinese Character Simplification Scheme."
On 31 January 1956, People's Daily published in full the Resolution and the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (漢字簡化方案).
[1] Some one-simple-vs-multiple-traditional characters that are highly controversial have not been restored to standard, such as 後, 發, 隻, 鬥, 麺(麵).
He believed that "the "General List" specifically stipulates the individual simplification and component analogy simplification relationship between Traditional and Simplified Chinese, if the "General List" is abolished, the relationship between Traditional and Simplified Chinese will become "water without a source and a tree without a root".