1, you don't need to read so fast.
The popularity of punctuation marks is only in the last two or three hundred years. 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.
2. Ancient books have no chapters.
One article in The Analects has nothing to do with another. Volume is only a material unit, and bamboo slips are not enough. We should continue to write another volume. 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.
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In fact, in ancient times, not only Chinese did not have punctuation marks, but also English, French, Latin and Greek did not.
The punctuation marks commonly used in our country now are based on the punctuation marks and symbols such as "sentence reading" and "circle point" in ancient China, and then some punctuation marks from western countries are introduced. After more than 100 years of use, they are reformed and integrated. 1840 The Opium War opened the door to China and opened the eyes of China people. China people who "open their eyes to the world" put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", that is, learning foreign technology to deal with foreign aggression. To learn, you must first understand. It was at this time that western punctuation was introduced into China.
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People's Network-punctuation marks only appeared five or six hundred years ago.