中国汉字自上而下、由右至左竖写的方式,已有几千年的历史。提出汉字竖写改横写的第一个人,是钱玄同。在《新青年》1917年第3卷3期上,刊载了钱玄同致陈独秀的一封公开信,首次提出了汉字“竖改横”的见解。钱文指出:“人目系左右相并,而非上下相重。试立室中,横视左右,甚为省力,若纵视上下,则一仰一俯,颇为费力。以此例彼,知看横行较易于直行,且右手写字,必自左至右,均无论汉字、西文,一笔一势,罕有自右至左者。然 Chinese characters from top to bottom, from right to left vertical written way, has thousands of years of history. Put forward the first person to write vertical Chinese characters change is Qian Xuan Tong. In ”New Youth“, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1917, an open letter from Qian Xuan and Chen Duxiu was published. For the first time, an opinion was raised about the Chinese character ”vertical change“. Qian Wen pointed out: ”People’s Department of the Department of the right and left, rather than the upper and lower the weight of the test room, horizontal or so, very labor-saving, if the longitudinal ascending, down a pitch, quite laborious. , Knowing that rampant easier to go straight, and the right hand to write, will be from left to right, regardless of Chinese characters, Western, a potential, rare right to left.