Why didn't the ancients use punctuation?

Although there are no punctuation marks in ancient books and articles, there are "jv fights". Teachers in private schools will use red pen to break sentences when teaching students. After the students' level is improved, they can read through the article without reading sentence by sentence. Generally, people with a little culture have gradually adapted to this kind of reading. Even so, it did not affect the development of ancient culture, but was not conducive to popularization.

In ancient times, there were no punctuation marks at all, and sentences were broken by themselves. This is why there are jokes with different meanings in China's jokes, and it is also why there is academic controversy about sentence-breaking.

The first person who introduced punctuation marks from abroad was Zhang Deyi, a student of Wentong Museum in the late Qing Dynasty. Wentong Pavilion was established by the Qing government to train foreign language talents in the Westernization Movement. Zhang Deyi is one of the first students in the English class.

In February of the seventh year of Tongzhi (1868), the former ambassador to China Pu led the "China Mission" to visit Europe and America and became a member of the delegation. Zhang Deyi has a habit. No matter which country he goes to, he likes to record the local scenery, people's feelings and customs, and compile a booklet with the theme of "talking about strange things". During the period from 1868 to 1869, he finished Tell Strange Man Again. Now this book is called Travels in Europe and America, with a punctuation mark to introduce the West. It says, "Books from western countries in Thailand are boring to read and boring to explain. If this sentence is meaningful, write "."; If the meaning is not enough, remember','; Although the meaning is not enough, but add a sentence outside, you will remember';' ; If you are surprised and admired, please remember "!" ; The problem is recorded as "?" ; Quote the classics and write ""at the beginning of the sentence; Add another note, and write' ()' before and after the sentence; In addition to these two paragraphs, add a horizontal line similar to'-'. "Although Zhang Deyi unconsciously introduced punctuation marks into the domestic intellectual circles, even with a tone of opposition, he felt that these punctuation marks were cumbersome, but in the process of inadvertently planting willows, it brought a new wind to the development of language symbols in China.

19 19 In April, six professors, Hu Shi, Qian, Zhou Zuoren and Ma Yuzao, were extremely reluctant to read "newspapers and books nowadays, no matter what kind of articles, are in a tight circle, not only do they not talk about grammatical differences, but even have no sense of appreciation". At the first meeting of the preparatory meeting of the national unified language, they put forward a "plan" and asked the government to issue a pass. ? :; ! -() ""Equipunctuation.

1920 On February 2nd, the Ministry of Education of Beiyang Government issued the No.53 instruction-"Adoption of new punctuation marks in general orders", and the first set of legal new punctuation marks in China was born.