五四文学革命时流行的“古白话”思维，将章太炎提及的中国语言发展历史中的“言文合一”现象绝对化、普遍化，强行将一些文言作品转化成“古白话”，背离了章太炎以小学为根基的白话思路。同时新文学中的“芟夷典故之风”“‘起于应用’的文学观”“深揪用字错误的论争策略”借鉴了章太炎修辞立诚的文章观，却抛弃了“修辞立诚”中的文字考证基础。五四文学革命在转化章太炎文学语言观的同时，章太炎也对文学革命进行了思考，强调白话对文言的依赖，展示言文合一的难度。

The popular “ancient vernacular” thinking during the May 4^th Literary Revolution absolutized and universalized the phenomenon of “the unity of spoken and written languages” in the developmental history of Chinese language mentioned by ZHANG Tai-yan, resulting in forcibly transforming some classical Chinese works into “ancient vernacular”, which deviates from ZHANG’s vernacular thinking based on philology. At the same time, the “the style of abolishing allusions”, “the view of applied literature” and “the debate strategy of deeply grasping errors in writing” in new literature learned from ZHANG’s view of “natural and unadorned writing”, but discarded the fundamentals of textual research in his doctrine. When the May 4^TH literary revolution transformed ZHANG’s view of literary Language, ZHANG also pondered over the literary revolution, emphasizing the dependence of vernacular on classical Chinese and showing the difficulty in “the unity of spoken and written languages”.