Previous books had no punctuation marks. In modern times, there is a person who marks it word for word and translates it into vernacular Chinese. I forgot who that man was. Ask him.

The earliest ancient books in China have no punctuation marks. About the Han dynasty, sentence reading began to be used. In the Song Dynasty, circles began to be used. In the Ming dynasty, ︴ and ‖ appeared again, 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. According to the ancient sentence-reading symbols and referring to western methods, the earliest new punctuation marks in China that meet the needs of Chinese characters are worked out.

19 19 in April, six professors headed by Hu Shi (Hu Shi, Qian,,, Zhou Zuoren, Ma Yuzao) put forward a "plan" and asked the government to promulgate 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 the No.53 instruction-"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 the People's Republic of China, the original punctuation was studied and sorted out. 195 1 In September, the Ministry of Publishing of the Central People's Government published Usage of Punctuation. * * * lists fourteen punctuation marks, including periods, commas, pauses, semicolons, quotation marks, colons, question marks, exclamation marks, brackets, dashes, ellipsis, proper nouns, titles and bullets.

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 Committee set up a punctuation usage revision team and invited experts to revise the original usage 1990. 1990 In March, the State Language Committee and the Press and Publication Administration jointly issued the revised Usage of Punctuation Symbols, listing 16 punctuation symbols, and adding connecting numbers and spacing numbers. Since then, the State Language Committee, the Press and Publication Administration and the State Bureau of Technical Supervision, after listening to opinions from all walks of life, have jointly decided to formulate a national standard for punctuation usage, which was officially released in February. 1995.