通常人们总以为,中国使用的标点符号,全是由西方传来的。事实正好相反,西方国家使用标点符号最早也不超过十一世纪,而中国则早在公元五世纪便开始使用标点符号了,到北宋时,中国使用的标点符 People often assume that the punctuation marks used in China are all from the West. In fact, on the contrary, western countries use punctuation as early as the eleventh century, while China started using punctuation as early as the fifth century AD. By the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, China used punctuation marks