Chapter 60 Remarks: Prohibition of punctuation marks (Qian Zemin)

Yesterday was the screening exam for the Ministry of Education.When the examiner came up with a question, a certain section chief immediately came to the scene to instruct him. He said: "You should not use punctuation marks, because punctuation marks are used when writing vernacular Chinese. It is very complicated, if there is no sentence to read, then the reader will inevitably have the difficulty of "taking the meaning out of the text"; but you should add a sentence to read, do not use colon, semicolon, question mark, and soon and so forth[3] and that's it." A certain section chief thought that punctuation marks should be used in Chinese, but unfortunately they have already been used by scholars who wrote vernacular Chinese. To avoid profanity, let's use the 4,000-year-old ancestral sentence to read!

Sixteen, twelve, twenty-four, (the day after the exam) written by Qian Zemin in Beijing. EE [1] This article was first published on January 28, 1928, Issue 7, Volume 4, of "Yusi" Weekly, after the article "Prohibition of Punctuation Marks". [2] Phrase and clause in English: phrases and clauses. (3) English: colon, semicolon, question mark, etc.