Tang Biao (1640 ~ 17 13), a city dweller, paid tribute at the age of (16 1) in the eighteenth year of Qing Shunzhi. He has read extensively since childhood and studied under Huang Zongxi and Mao Qiling. Forgive, argue and relax. He studied under Huiji, Changxing and Renhe. "There are many soldiers in Wulin (Hangzhou), lectured by lecturers", and he has been engaged in teaching for a long time. After retiring from office, he benefited from learning and was known as the "Jinhua Famous Mansion".

His works include two chapters: physical changes, reading in life, reading composition methods, and good guidance methods of parents and teachers. When did "punctuation" come into being? It is generally believed that the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Some publications preserved in the early years of the Republic of China often printed advertisements such as "new punctuation" on the cover or back cover, which actually showed that "old punctuation" had existed before that. Punctuation should have appeared in the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty (1662 ~ 1722), and its founder was Tang Biao, a native of Lanxi.

There are 87 articles in Reading Composition Method 12, which expounds the introduction and 22 reading methods, describes the writing methods from the aspects of article genre, conception, conception, layout and rhetorical expression, and lists 37 writing skills. This book divides the article into paragraphs for the first time, and on the basis of "sentence reading" in ancient Chinese, it creates "circle points" and punctuation marks such as proper names, year numbers, country numbers, place names and official names. He made an epoch-making contribution in the history of China's language and writing.