中国现代学者,新文化运动的著名人物,提倡以白话文代替文言文的胡适先生,27岁任北京大学教授。一次,他在课堂上向学生讲述白话文的优越性。正当他侃侃而谈的时候,一个学生突然站起来反驳。那个学生说:“白话文不精练,打电报用字多,花钱多,哪有文言文好?”其 Chinese modern scholar and famous person in the New Culture Movement, Mr. Hu Shi who advocated replacing vernacular Chinese with vernacular and 27-year-old professor of Peking University. Once, he told the students in class about the superiority of vernacular. While he was talking frankly, a student suddenly stood up to refute. That student said: “vernacular is not scouring, telegraphing more words, more money, how can there be classical?”