Legislative Technical Specification of"Huozhe"in Legislative Texts:Based on the Investigation of Embedded Structures
Because there exists the great difference in the use and embedded structure of"huozhe"in the laws newly introduced and revised in 2023,and"huozhe"and"huo"in laws introduced in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China,and because there are different divisions of labour of"huozhe"and"huo"in modern Chinese,it is proposed that we should restore the use of"huo"in legislative texts and continue its function in written language,use"huo"to connect sentences besides words and phrases,and try not to use"huozhe"as much as possible when"huo"can be used,and if it is an embedded structure,we should use"huozhe"at the high level,use"huo"at the low level,and use parentheses to indicate the lower level,and we can add comma before"huozhe"at the high level.