1. Du Mu's "Qingming Festival"
"It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and passersby on the road want to die. If I ask where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village."
This is a famous poem by Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. 's masterpiece. Have you ever thought about it? Punctuation alone can make it change style.
Let’s take a look:
“It rains during the Qingming Festival, and many pedestrians on the road want to die. May I ask where the restaurant is? There is a shepherd boy pointing to Xinghua Village in the distance.”
——It has become a long and short sentence.
Look again:
[It rains heavily on the road during Qingming Festival]
Pedestrian (wanting to die): "May I ask, where is the restaurant?"
Shepherd boy (pointing from a distance): "Xinghua Village!"
- It became a script.
2. "Liangzhou Ci" by Wang Zhihuan
Far above the Yellow River, among the white clouds, there is an isolated city called Wanren Mountain. Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass.
There was a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. He wrote this poem by Wang Zhihuan into a banner and gave it to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Unexpectedly, he accidentally missed one of the characters "Jian" in it, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was furious. Thinking this is to fool her into not knowing poetry. The calligrapher was frightened by this "crime of deceiving the emperor" and thought out of his wits that the words he wrote were based on Wang Zhihuan's poetic words: "Yellow River is far away/white clouds/Gucheng Wanren Mountain/Qiang flute has no need to complain/willow." The spring breeze/does not pass through Yumen Pass." Empress Dowager Cixi saw that what he said was reasonable, so she had to give up and gave him wine to calm her shock.
2. Games of the Ancients
1 "Mr. Contract": According to legend, there was a rich man who was stingy by nature. Once, he hired a teacher and explained that the meal was very meager. At that time, the teacher readily agreed, but on the pretext that he had no proof, he asked for a certificate. The rich man agreed. The teacher wrote a contract: "Every day, there are no chickens, ducks, or fish. A plate of vegetables is enough." The rich man looked at the contract and read it carefully: "Every day, there are no chickens, ducks, or even fish. A plate of vegetables is enough." Fish and meat are also acceptable, and a plate of vegetables is enough." He happily signed the contract. Unexpectedly, when we were eating the first meal, the teacher yelled: "Why is it all vegetables and no fish? Didn't we agree that every meal should have meat?" After he finished speaking, he read the contract to the rich man. The rich man was speechless after hearing this. From now on, I will prepare fish dishes for this teacher every meal. Please think about how this teacher read this contract.
(Answer: Daily meals: no chicken, duck is OK; no fish, meat is OK; one plate of green vegetables is enough.)
2 "Punctuation Suicide Note": Once upon a time, there was An old man was extremely excited about having a son in his sixties. As a result, he suffered a stroke and stayed in bed for five years. Before his death, he left a suicide note to his 5-year-old child and son-in-law. The suicide note read:
"If a sixty-year-old son gives birth to a son, no one can tell me that he is not my son. All my family property and farmland will be given to my son-in-law, and no outsiders will be allowed to argue."
A few years later, the youngest son When he reaches adulthood, he will separate from his brother-in-law. Who will own the property and farmland? The two argued endlessly and had to go to the Yamen to file a lawsuit.
The son-in-law argued: "My father-in-law's suicide note clearly stated: A sixty-year-old man gave birth to a son, and people said: 'He must be my son!' All the family property and fields will be given to the son-in-law, and outsiders are not allowed to argue." ."
The county magistrate carefully considered the unmarked suicide note and came up with another way to separate the inheritance from his younger son. Let me ask: How does the county magistrate punctuate the mark?
(Answer: A sixty-year-old man gave birth to a son. As people say, he is my son! All his family property and farmland will be given to him. Son-in-law is not allowed to argue with outsiders.)
3 Couplets in the hotel
There was a man who opened a winery and also made vinegar and raised pigs with scraps, but this man was famous for being stingy. Once he asked a scholar to write a couplet to his workshop, asking for blessings for a prosperous business in the workshop, as well as a prosperous family and abundant financial resources. The scholar wrote unpunctuated upper and lower couplets and horizontal comments, and read them to him:
The wine making tank is good, but the vinegar is sour;
The pigs are big and the mice are all dead. .
Hengbiao: more people, fewer diseases, wealth.
The man was very happy to hear this, but he refused to pay according to the price agreed in advance and only paid half. The scholar did not bargain with him and took the money and left.
The next day, many people gathered in front of the wine shop and laughed. This man went out to watch and found that the couplet had been marked with punctuation, but the meaning was completely reversed. He rolled his eyes in anger. Do you know how punctuation is added?
(Answer: The wine vat is good for making vinegar, but the altar is sour. If you raise pigs and mice, they will all die. Horizontal comment: People are more sick and less wealthy.)
4 Expulsion Order
One rainy day, a man arrived at his friend's house and could not leave, so he had to stay at his friend's house temporarily. But this friend is a very stingy person and is unwilling to receive him. The friend was too embarrassed to speak directly, so he wrote a note and left it on his desk. The note read: "On rainy days, I will stay as a guest every day." There was no punctuation. After reading this, the passerby felt that his friend was not very interesting, so he picked up his pen and added punctuation points to the original article, turning it into a direct inquiry. Do you know how the two of them broke up their sentences?
Answer: Friends passing by: It’s a rainy day, a guest’s day, will you stay with me? Keep!
On a rainy day, keeping guests? God will leave me alone!
Stingy friends: I will keep guests on rainy days, but I won’t if the weather will.
5. Lucky words
A person always faces lawsuits. During the Chinese New Year, he said to his family: "No one can file a lawsuit this year." He also posted a couplet that read, "This year will be good, with less bad luck, and no lawsuits will be filed." But there was no punctuation. As a result, the younger son read this couplet when he came to visit relatives, which surprised the whole family. What he read was: "This year is very unlucky, and there are few lawsuits."
6. The cunningness of the matchmaker
In ancient times, major marriage matters were dictated by the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers. At that time, a matchmaker arranged for a young master from a wealthy family to marry him, and wrote a line: Jet black hair, no pockmarks, no big feet. He also said that he would guarantee that the girl's appearance would be as written on the note. When the wealthy family saw it, they were elated and agreed to the marriage.
They read this line as: jet black hair, no pockmarks, small feet, Zhou Zheng. But when the bride was brought in and sent into the bridal chamber, she discovered that the bride was bald, lame, and had a pockmarked face. A big family goes to a matchmaker to settle accounts. The matchmaker refused to acknowledge her account, saying that it was clearly written on her note: pitch black, no hair, pockmarks, small feet, Zhou Zheng.
Three. Modern Story
1. Who is panicking?
An English professor wrote this sentence on the blackboard: "A woman is nothing without her (her) man" and asked the students to mark the punctuation marks correctly.
The male classmate marked it like this: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
The female classmate marked it like this: "Woman: without her, a man is nothing." ”
2. A child’s diary. When writing a diary, a child wrote the punctuation marks in the wrong place, which caused a great conflict between his father and mother. This sentence is “My uncle kissed my mother, and he also "Kiss me." In fact, what it really means is "My uncle kissed me, and my mother kissed me." It means that the punctuation marks are wrong, which caused conflicts between father and mother, so don't underestimate the punctuation marks!
3. Letter from a wanderer
A young man went out to do business and did not return for half a year. His parents at home were particularly concerned about him. Finally one day, the parents received a letter from their child. However, after reading it, my father is happy and my mother is sad. Do you know what is going on? The original text is as follows:
My son’s life is very painful, he has no food, a lot of illness, and makes a lot of money (no punctuation)
This is how my father read this letter:
My son's life is good, he has no pain, he has plenty of food, he rarely gets sick, and he earns a lot of money.
Look again, how does your mother read it?
My son’s life is so painful! There was no food, many diseases, and a lot of money was lost.
4. Several slogans posted on cars.
(1) Be careful when bears appear
(2) Stop at any time to correct violations
5. Notice Pedestrians are not allowed here