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They held lamps and torches, shouting why not use a colon at the back.
Because the colon pauses after the prompt, it is used to prompt the following. The role of hints is not emphasized here. A colon is not required.

This means that prompt and pause exist at the same time, and there is a bigger pause. Quoting other people's words in the article, in order to make readers notice that the following words are quoted, and there should be a big pause before quoting words, so as to use colons. If the prompt function is not emphasized and there is no big pause, a comma should be used instead of a colon before the quotation marks.