What does the full stop we use now have to do with the publishing industry in the Song Dynasty?

The sentence break symbols in the books published in the Song Dynasty are the prototype of the full stop we use today.

According to our current reading and writing habits, if a sentence is not finished and only half a sentence is spoken, use a comma, and if the meaning of a sentence has been clearly expressed to open the next layer of meaning, use a full stop, so that not only can you write clearly, but others will also feel very clear, and will not misunderstand and disagree about the meaning and meaning of the article. But in ancient times, it was not so easy, before the Han Dynasty, people had to rely on their own understanding to divide sentences, if the sentence was wrong, it was easy to misunderstand, it is said that even the erudite Lu Aigong had jokes because of this, which was really miserable.

This way of life of relying on intuition and guessing to break sentences continued until the Han Dynasty, when people began to use the two symbols of "and" and "" to break sentences, although it seems a little abrupt in the article, but fortunately, people can understand the meaning of the article very well. It wasn't until Zhao Kuangyin became the big boss that the society finally moved towards stability, and social stability means that the economy can develop like a high-speed train, and economic development will inevitably bring about cultural development. "Large" is usually placed before a chapter to mark the beginning of a new chapter, and "small" is usually placed at the end of a sentence to represent the end of the sentence, which is basically the same as our current role, and the development and prosperity of the publishing industry has expanded and popularized the use and influence of "big and small".

By the time of the Qing Dynasty, a cannon not only knocked on China's door, but also brought new ideas and culture into China, and the punctuation marks used by Westerners were also used by some advanced people. By the time of the May Fourth New Culture Movement, Hu Shi and others jointly proposed the use of new symbols, and obtained the approval of Beiyang**, and now we use new symbols, and scholars have also marked obscure ancient texts with modern punctuation to make it easier for us to read.

Because the full stop we use now is derived from the full stop created at the beginning of the publishing industry in the Song Dynasty, and has been used since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, and is still used by modern people.

According to some relevant insiders, the full stop used by our modern people is a variant of a symbol at the back of the books published in the Song Dynasty at that time.

The Han Dynasty had the symbol for breaking sentences, but it was not exactly the same as the full stop we use today. The word punctuation was first seen in the Song Dynasty. Period, a type of punctuation mark, in the form of ". In English, it is expressed as ".Punctuation at the end of a declarative sentence.