The Book of Houmameng in the Spring and Autumn Period used one or two short lines to indicate a kind of repetition and punctuation.
The symbol "sentence reading" was invented in Han Dynasty. A short paragraph with complete meaning is "sentence"; The paragraph in the sentence where the meaning is unfinished and the tone can be paused is "read" (equivalent to the comma now). The Song Dynasty used "."and ","to indicate sentence reading. Names and place names only appeared in the Ming Dynasty. These are the earliest punctuation marks in China.
The little red circle in Yongle ceremony of Ming Dynasty is a punctuation mark.
19 19 On the basis of the original punctuation marks in China and referring to the punctuation marks commonly used in other countries, the Preparatory Committee for the Unified Planning of Putonghua stipulated the symbol 12, which was promulgated by the then Ministry of Education. After the founding of New China, the General Administration of Publishing further summarized the rules for the use of punctuation marks and published the usage of punctuation marks in 195 1. In the same year, the State Council issued the Guiding Opinions on Learning the Usage of Punctuation in 1. From then on, punctuation tends to be perfect and has a unified usage. 1990 In April, the State Language Committee and the Press and Publication Administration revised and promulgated the Usage of Punctuation Symbols, which made new provisions and explanations on punctuation marks and their usage.