When the excessive worship and superstition to Chinese words develop into an extremely high degree, the strictly punishment for people who profane Chinese words will appear. Students who study Chinese should know this is the two opposite aspects of the same thing. In the long process of feudal autocracy in China, the literary inquisition usually happened in the past dynasties. When you come to study Chinese in China, you should know the most famous one happened in Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty. It is about the people named Zha Siting.

At that time, he was the vice minister of Ministry of Rites. He ever set a test questions for the eight-part essay called 维民所止. It originates from Book of Song, which the foreigners studying Chinese in China may know. However, someone misunderstood it that 维and止indicate there is no head for 雍正, the emperor at that time. Then, students who study Chinese can guess that the emperor was so angry that he arrested Zha and took him into prison. He died in prison and his wife and children were forced to be soldiers and servants.