But in fact, China has had punctuation marks since the pre-Qin period, which can be seen in archaeological relics since the 20th century, but there is no unified standard for these symbols. In ancient China, there were only no modern punctuation marks, not no punctuation marks.
1920, with the support of Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi and others, Wang Yuan, who runs a small publishing house in Shanghai, punctuated and segmented The Water Margin and published it. This is the first time that China published a classical book with punctuation marks. The use of punctuation marks has greatly promoted the use of China vernacular.
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1, period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, pause, semicolon and colon generally occupy the position of a word, which is lower to the left and does not appear at the beginning of the line.
2. Quotations, brackets and the first half of the title do not appear at the end of the line, and the second half does not appear at the beginning of the line.
3. Both dashes and ellipses occupy the position of two words and cannot be broken in the middle. Connectors and separators generally occupy the position of a word. These four symbols are centered up and down.
4. Symbols, proper names and wavy book titles are marked below the characters and can move with the characters.
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