清朝时,中文里还没有标点符号,书法家吟诗时的停顿就相当于现在标点的作用。就这样,“标点”救了书法家的性命。清朝末年的一天,慈禧太后召来一位书法家题写扇面。书法家大笔一挥,写了首唐朝著名诗人王之涣的诗《凉州词》:“黄河远上白云间,一片孤城万仞山。羌笛何须怨杨柳,春风不度玉门关。”不料,书法家因一时疏忽漏写了个“间”字。慈禧见了勃然大怒,认为书法家在讥笑她没有学问,当场要问死罪。 During the Qing dynasty, there was no punctuation mark in Chinese, and the pause of the calligrapher was equal to the punctuation mark now. That’s it, “punctuation ” saved calligrapher’s life. One day in the end of the Qing dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi called a calligrapher to write a fan. Calligrapher took a big wave, wrote the first famous poet in the Tang Dynasty poet Wang’s poem “Liangzhou words”: “The Yellow River far away from the clouds, a solitary city Wanjian Mountain .Where Qiangdi complained willow, the spring breeze is not Yumen.” “Unexpectedly , Calligraphers missed due to temporary negligence wrote a ”room" word. Empress met rage, that calligrapher laughed at her lack of knowledge on the spot to ask the death penalty.