Before when were ancient books punctuated?

The earliest ancient books in China have no punctuation marks. In the Han Dynasty, sentence reading began. In the Song Dynasty, punctuation began to be used. In the Ming dynasty, there were ‖ and ‖, which were used to represent names and places respectively. These simple symbols can be regarded as traditional punctuation marks in China. But it is not perfect and has not been widely used for a long time.

In the 20th century, some scholars began to introduce some of the most popular punctuation marks in Europe and America into China, and according to the ancient sentence reading symbols and referring to the western methods, they developed the earliest new punctuation marks suitable for China characters.

1965438+in April 2009, Liu Jiaoshou, headed by Hu Shi, put forward the "plan" and asked the government to promulgate the general rules. :! -() ""Equipunctuation. 165438+1At the end of October, Hu Shi revised the above scheme and named the symbols listed in the original scheme as "new punctuation marks", which was approved this year.

1February 2, 920, the Ministry of Education of Beiyang Government issued instruction No.53-"Use New Punctuation Symbols in General Orders", and approved the "Please Issue New Punctuation Symbols" jointly proposed by six professors in Peking University. The birth of the first set of legal new punctuation marks in China has become a record in the history of language and culture development.

After the founding of our country, the original punctuation marks were studied and sorted out. 195 1 In September, the Ministry of Publishing of the Central People's Government published Usage of Punctuation. * * * There are fourteen kinds of punctuation marks, including periods, commas, pauses, semicolons, quotation marks, colons, question marks, exclamation points, brackets, dashes and ellipsis.

In 1960s, the writing of China's manuscripts and the layout of publications changed from vertical to horizontal, and the usage of some punctuation marks also developed and changed, so it is necessary to sort out the original regulations. At the beginning of 1987, the State Language Commission set up a punctuation usage revision group, and invited experts to revise the original usage 1990.50089.000000000606 The State Language Commission and the Press and Publication Administration jointly issued the revised punctuation usage, listing 16 punctuation symbols, adding hyphens and spaces. After listening to the opinions from all walks of life, the State Language Committee, the Press and Publication Administration and the State Bureau of Technical Supervision jointly decided to use punctuation as a national standard, which was formally implemented on June 25th.