Why were there no punctuation marks in ancient times? Because he doesn't need to read so fast. The popularity of punctuation marks is only in the last two or three hundred years. How are punctuation marks produced? It is actually the result of a commercial activity. Five or six hundred years ago, Gutenberg printing appeared in Europe, and books appeared and became the oldest industrial products, entering the market and becoming commodities. For the sake of cost, printers, that is, booksellers, want to print in large quantities to dilute the cost, so they invented punctuation marks to make books easier and faster to read. That's not enough. Need segmentation.
Ancient books have no chapters. Today we look at the Analects of Confucius. There is no relationship between one article and another. The volume is only a material unit, and there are not enough bamboo slips to continue writing. This is true of China's ancient books, and so are Indian, Arabic and European books. After the advent of printing, publishers began to divide the length of paragraphs for books. Segmentation has had a great impact. In the past, Europeans did not read the Bible in sections, but always read it honestly from the beginning. After the Bible was segmented, people began to think that different paragraphs had different degrees of importance, and differences arose. Therefore, John Locke, a great British philosopher, said: "The segmented printing of the Bible is a tragedy brewed by shameless businessmen. They forcibly divided the Bible in order to sell it better. After the division, our faith will fall apart. " Later, the result was unfortunately said by Locke, so how to print it is really important. The appearance of printing makes us leave intensive reading and start extensive reading.
Many people have read a dream of red mansions all their lives, and each time they see it, the meaning is different. This is not the reason why the ancients read it repeatedly. He reads the same meaning every time. He should remind himself repeatedly, for example, "When a person does something wrong to you, don't get angry. But you should think about the reason why he is good or evil, and then you won't be angry. " Is it easy to understand? Can you do it? This kind of book is not for you to understand its meaning, but for you to do it.