Once upon a time, a family asked someone to write a banner for the New Year, "Good years, less bad luck, no lawsuits." The writer does not pay attention to punctuation, and there is neither punctuation nor separation between sentences. On New Year's Day, people who pay New Year's greetings see banners and ask, "What's wrong with your family?" The host said sullenly, "Why do you say unlucky things as soon as you enter the door!" The bearer pointed to the banner on the door and said, "Isn't it written here that' this year's years are not good, you have to go to court'?". Zhu Zhishan writes Spring Festival couplets.
On one occasion, a landlord who was rampant in the village and benefited from it asked Zhu Zhishan to write a couplet for him.
Zhu Zhishan, an upright man, wanted to give this tone to the people, so he began to write:
It is unlucky to welcome spring tomorrow.
Less luck and more money all year round.
This place is safe to live in.
He was very sad.
When the landlord saw it, he flew into a rage and ran to the county to complain that Zhu Zhishan had insulted him. Zhu Zhishan confidently said to the county magistrate, "I wrote auspicious words. Have I ever called names? " Later, he read the two couplets aloud, but the landlord was speechless and had to give Zhu Zhishan a gift. It turns out that the landlord read it like this:
Tomorrow is spring, which is unlucky.
Bad luck all the year round, less money.
Can you live here safely?
He is so sad!
However, Zhu Zhishan read this way:
It's not bad luck to have a beautiful spring tomorrow.
Less luck and more money all year round.
This place is both safe and livable.
He is kind and not sad.
Punctuation saved a life.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi, who held the imperial power, asked the calligrapher to write a fan. That calligrapher wrote a poem by Wang Zhihuan, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty: The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, and Wan Ren is a lonely city.
Why use the elegy of willow to complain about the delay of spring, old Yumenguan, a spring breeze is not blowing!
However, due to the negligence of calligraphers, the word "Jian" was omitted when writing poems. Cixi flew into a rage after reading it, thinking that it was deliberately deceiving her without knowing it, and asking the calligrapher to be a capital crime. The calligrapher used his quick wits and quickly explained, "I wrote the words in Wang Zhihuan's poems." And on the spot again more firmly shouted:
The Yellow River is high above, white clouds are blossoming, and Wan Ren is a lonely city.
Why are you complaining about Johnny? Willow spring breeze, not Yumen Pass.
After hearing this, Cixi was speechless and got the right answer, so she had to give the calligrapher money to calm her down. Punctuation marks are small, but they save a life.
4 Stay or not?
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a gifted scholar named Xu Wenchang who once went out to visit friends. It was Huangmei season and it was raining cats and dogs, so he had to stay at a friend's house. A few days later, my friend saw that Xu Wenchang had no intention of going home and had difficulty in speaking, so he wrote a note in the living room:
Stay in rainy days, stay in the sky, stay in the sky.
The friend thought: Xu Wenchang, after reading this note, are you so embarrassed to stay? After a while, Xu Wenchang strolled into the living room, looked up and saw the note, and said to himself, "If it rains, I will stay." He understood his master's intention and was very angry with his friend for embarrassing himself in this way. When he looked carefully, he saw that there were no punctuation marks, so he raised his pen and touched it. He said, It's raining. Stay for one day. Will you stay for me? Stay. The word hasn't changed, but the meaning is completely opposite. The shopkeeper blushed when he saw it.
5 talking punctuation
The famous French writer Hugo sent the manuscript of Les Miserables to a publishing house, but he hasn't received any news for a long time. Hugo wrote a letter asking. The letter wrote: "? -Hugo "The publisher wrote back:"! -editorial department. " Soon, the masterpiece Les Miserables, which caused a sensation in the world, finally came out.
6 a comma
Once, Oscar Wilde, a famous British writer, gave a banquet. The guests got together and waited in the living room for a long time, but their host didn't arrive. They are very anxious. Later, Wilde hurried to apologize to the guests. The guest asked him what he had done, and he replied, "I am revising my poem." The guest asked, "You must have done a lot of work for so long?" Wilde said with a smile, "I have done an extremely important job. I deleted a comma and later found it inappropriate and added another one. "
7 Contribution of punctuation marks
Andrei Sobrie, an old Soviet writer, wrote a short story for The Sailor. The theme is fresh and brilliant, but the level is not clear, and the article seems to be in a mess. The editor doesn't know what to do. The old editor Blagov took the initiative to take the manuscript and worked all night.
The next day, the editors were shocked to see this article. The content is so interesting, the writing is so smooth and the level is so clear. What is even more surprising is that the whole article has not added or subtracted a word. Editors asked Blagov, what's the matter? Blagov replied, "There are no secrets here, it's all because of punctuation. Look, ladies and gentlemen, I punctuate every sentence here and mark it with a period. Of course, there is subdivision, which is a big deal. Punctuation marks are used to mark ideas, correct the relationship between words, and make sentences easy to understand and accurate in tone. Punctuation marks are like notes, which firmly bind the article and prevent it from spreading. "
Writer Andre Sobrie hugged Blagov and kissed him three times. He said with great excitement, "Thank you, Blagov, for giving me a profound lesson, which I will never forget. I deeply feel guilty about my previous works. "
8 autobiography written with punctuation at a banquet, Dr. Balchen, a famous American social psychologist, suggested that everyone should write an autobiography in the shortest sentence, and the wording should be so short that it can even be used as an epitaph engraved on a tombstone after death. So everyone thought hard and reached out to write. One of the depressed young people gave Balchen an autobiography with only three punctuation marks: a dash "-"and an exclamation point "!" And a period. " .
Balchen asked what this meant, and the young man said sadly, "A rampage; fall behind
Sad sigh; Finally, I had to die. "
After a short meditation, Balchen raised his pen and scratched three punctuation marks at the bottom of the autobiography: a pause, an abridged symbol and a big question mark. . Then the doctor said to the young man who gave up on himself with his unique encouraging tone: "Youth is a stop in life; The road is long, Xiu Yuan Xi, and the hope is infinite; Didn't you hear' the prodigal son doesn't change money'? "