The last century, half of eighties, a nearly extinct language, quietly shaking academia. Seems like quiet a bit unlikely.
It shows Lijuan thin shape peculiar, old-fashioned abundant. Nearly 2000 codes, only the points, vertical, oblique, arc four kinds of strokes, writing evolved from the elongated diamond shape, can use the local dialect dialect compose and recite poetry. Many talented local women, old men do not use this knowledge of the "mini-shaped word" exchange their minds and tell Zhongchang, its embroidery, carved, stamped, written on paper fans towel Pa female red, biographies marriage and family, social contacts, hidden bitterness personal kinship, and village anecdotal, songs riddles, but also build Chinese language libretto. Owner's death, they are more as sacrificial lambs by incineration or burial, and only a handful a few collections keep as souvenirs, so very few people remains. This mysterious character is not contained in history books, gazetteers do not stated, the local genealogical inscriptions, can be said that no one clues, little known to the outside world.
What is this text? This is the ancient spread in the vicinity of rural women in Jiangyong text symbols - women's book.
The first night I went to Jiang Yong, living in the county cultural centers. In cultural centers, one is the text of Confucianism, calligraphy, well written and the elderly, Jiangguan Chang's father left me my supper. During the banquet, Jiang Guanchang mysterious to say that evening he took me to see two people. These are two people? They and the women's book What is the relationship? What is the woman in the end the book? What kind? I have a bunch of symbols that came to mind.
The first person I see live in the Museum's backyard, is a nearly 70-year-old. Xiao Jiang said that the elderly called Shuo Zhou Yi, is the first person to explore women's book. See Zhou teacher, I could not wait to raised questions. I said, in the lengshuitan to Jiangyong car, there are passengers told me that women are occasionally found in the book, is a rural primary school teacher arranged students in writing, the title "the most interesting things around you." A result, one student wrote his grandmother would be a kind of bizarre characters. Writing attracted the attention of the teacher, so, women have been found in the book, is not it? Chou said that the teacher is me, there were indeed such a thing. But the book is not such a woman was found.
Weeks the teacher told me that the earliest reference to such text and the economy is probably in 1931 on behalf of the printing company printed a "Hunan county investigation report," but little account. About the same time period, juvenile weeks in his father's notes to see about the female section of the book records. At the same time, when the week was an elementary school student, they are often neighbors, who told them to girls older sister whom records of dialect and female song, and have the opportunity to see girls Po Yi had to write women's book, read a paper fan. The early fifties weeks transferred to county cultural centers, formally started research women's book. After the woman he has been written in a couplet from the province came to see a Wenbo cadre, after two joint research, and research reports were sent to CAS language "Chinese Language," a magazine editor. While women's book should come out from the fog of time, a rightist, the three were all labeled as a rightist. Nushu study also interrupted. Not until after 1979, every peace and prosperity, Zhou and others began to re-examine, after having a heavy-weight language and national folklore scholars to join, gradually this rare female characters in the "Password" finally enter the world view from the remote mountain country has aroused great interest at home and abroad, and widespread concern. , Said to international and domestic women's book has become a major research focus.
I am by nature a good move, destined to not become academics, but also the ancient writing has always been on the boring shy away, but curiosity made me question again haunted by a female text? Why? Why this land has a woman who would go to the creation and use of it? in the male-centered feudal society, men, how can we allow women to learn and to use their own do not understand the text?
This involves the origin of this mysterious character.
People are more to say, there are two.
First, the legend of Princess-defined characters. Legend I do not know what dynasty, Yongming County (Jiangyong County, formerly known as) has a talented woman HU show, had been pretty, was taken to the Royal Palace. Others think that she must live a happy life, and who knows in the palace flies Yu-Xiu is extremely sad, life is very desolate. Her from the family and the sisters, full of sadness, no one complaining. As a result, she was a female red pattern according to his hometown to create a language others do not recognize that women's book. Unfortunately, his own as well as their loved ones have to write out an infinite thoughts, and then he asked people to bring back home, and asked her relatives: "If you want to know her characters, must be tilted forward to identify the direction, in accordance with dialect pronunciation to understand its contents. "Later, people create a women's book to commemorate the princess, in the Tung Hau Ming Fung Tower Block was built to commemorate the legendary princess.
The second is defined in the Private Disk Qiao legend. According to legend, a long time ago, Tong mouth Yamaoki there is a clever girl named dish, and she will sing three or seven years old will be embroidered, grow to seventeen or eighteen years old, did not like the female red are not proficient, she likes to make and sisters, And smart. However, on the disk clever 18-year-old that year, a great calamity fell on her head. One day in the mountains pulled pork plate Qiao grass imperial government of the hunting team, she found a beautiful, they then went to the state capital that she grabbed the Road imperial government, the wall of the High Court deep, before post, after post, plate Qiao Chachi also did not fly out, she was here, no one knows the plight of affected, but also no one to write her acoustic, plate Coincidentally, swollen eyes, crying, shouting hoarse voice has always been useless. In order to their own experiences to tell his family, plates clever wrestling, and finally come up with a way. She and sisters under the usual lace weaving, shoemaking kind of pattern, making a word a day, three-year period Zaochu 1080 words, made her own words written a long letter, hidden in a large raised by her hunting dogs, so that dogs with a letter to relatives back home. Natiao hound is pass human nature, to the mouth of the Tung Shan Chong, after the club entered the West family out. Finally, an observant girl found a letter under the hounds neck, open a look, it seems that divine book, so she invited the 49 sisters, like the 49 days for driving the disk Coincidentally, the letter identified. Since then, the sisters made clever use of the word-disc songs, and good recognition, and good mind, from generation to generation to the present.
Zhou says that in fact it is a beautiful legend. Why are there female book, should also be for two reasons. The first reason may be a long time the ancient, the local Yao, Han Chinese have a regional text. Later, Qin Shi Huang Fenshukengru, unified text, a man does not dare to re-use the Han language, learning the local language, but that time is not the social status of women, they are doing, as long as we do not violate women's Road, local administrative officials and men are not care about and, therefore, was abandoned in the local language, perhaps the ancient Yao-wen in the hands of their heritage and to develop into purdah for women inside the book; second reason is probably related to the local ancient marriage customs. Jiang Yong is located in Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong border, the local marriage customs of the feudal society while preserving the old marriage customs of the Han-fan mattress customs, but also by the South in particular, the Yao ethnic minority men and humble respect for the concept of women, women married three days returned to her parents, until after the pregnancy had children In her husband's official residence. Objectively, this ancient marriage customs of marriage makes a local young woman married a very long period of time is also free time to enjoy girls, and the same village girl playing, learning to sing female red. "No down her husband's" This kind of marriage by the pairing family to monogamy and the family during the transition period form of marriage, whether it reflects the matrilineal system of the stubborn resistance of the patriarchal system? This on the one hand with the local men, social isolation, on the other hand they are particularly active within the "female society" to form, will as a "female code" to provide rich breeding ground for growth in the soil?
Of course, the above test, according to some of these weeks old judge, in some cases I have no basis for the "Legend" and "assumptions", and thousands can not be as "academic point of view."
The second person I see Ouyang Hongyan, it was a very remarkable woman, for women's book is extremely obsessed. Ouyang Hongyan thirty-something year County Development Plan was originally a cadre prices, the Commission, in order to study women's book did not hesitate when she resigned. As a number of "women's book," Gao Ren passed away, "women's book" facing the transmission of crisis, a result, a high standard of English Hongyan germination of a women's book collection and collation of information, editing, "women's book English-Chinese dictionary" idea. Since 1998, she was the use of holidays and rest time constantly looking for "women's book" transmission, to the right to learn "women's book." Once, she had heard xiacengpu One woman will be female consciousness book, tens of miles away at the mountain foot mill has played a Xuepao only find her. The past four years, she has Hayashi in the Yang-Hwan Yi, Shuo Zhou Yi, Fu-excavation and finishing in the identification, based on the daily overtime Hongyan Edit "women's book English-Chinese dictionary." In order to make it more accurate, she asked the teacher to Shuo Zhou Yi addition to reviewing, but also many times to book for women on the river dike in-depth research, and to discuss with the women's book-human transmission, through cross-checking, multiple changes to a more than 20 million characters The "women's book English-Chinese Dictionary" the first draft was finally completed. Hongyan house I saw the neatly bound printed draft. Hongyan said, there have been a number of publishers willing to pay, but the minimum fee to be published in 20000.
By the two ministers urged the county propaganda department, I am the morning of May 1st 1000 Cave hurried to the village on the river dike Primus.
Pu Mei Village is the source of Xiangjiang River Xiaoshui an island surrounded by water. In fact, in my opinion, Pu Mei is not the most visible presence of women's book, but Natiao Qingqing of Xiaoshui. In my opinion, is also a mystery Xiaoshui the same river. Jiangyong of the wilderness is flat, there is no lie during the so-called watershed. Hsieh Mu-Pearl River south of the River and the Xiangjiang River north of Xiaoshui, actually in the plains of Tanzania in their respective birth-wan away. Dupangling a different regional distribution of the Xiaoxiang rainwater harvesting water. Surprisingly, Xiaoshui. It from the mountains of the windward slope of the Yang shed, across the wilderness back in the foot. Dupangling and Nanling towering mountains, but still have not be blocked. It Zhigu slowly cracks in the mountains in search of a way out, meandering way to turn off the Castle Peak ran to numerous Lingbei, in Yongzhou import from the bottom of the Xiangjiang River ling qu. This is a kind of toughness, perseverance ah.
Xiaoshui passed on through the massive suspension bridge, a winding gravel path leads to Pu-Mei. Spring sun is warm in a soft tone, reflecting the riverside village of Primus.
Villages along the river bank line emitted, scattered and not crowded. Huizhou residential style, the EAVES inserted into the river An Liu trees. People Shimoji Chunmang season has not yet come back, quiet village. Only a few chickens and pigs for a stroll in the accompanying the elderly and children. The river boat is also quietly parked in the shade under, but no fisherman. Xiaoshui sparkling water buffalo lying motionless in the waves in one. That Xiaoshui quietly flowing, flashing forward to a silent song.
County pairs of women's book is still quite seriously, quite a lot of money invested in a women's book of villages built Museum Park. I was under the leadership of Minister of Propaganda Xiao read women's book gallery, female school books. She told me that the county's ultimate goal is to aspire to achieve women's book village in an open-air museum and the national key cultural protection units and the trinity of the world's cultural heritage.
After Xiao Minister and previous weeks old and Hongyan introduction, in skimming over the surface visited, my general impression that women's book is a Ku Caihua. It does not like the Tibetans, "Gesar", Mongolian for "Jiangger", Keerkesi the "Manas" are epic, myth and legend. Women's Script fundamental that women tell their own ordeal with a man can not read the sign in the sister comfort each other, giving vent to emotions, to pass the friendship between sisters. There is a female child bride to write the book, which reads: "18 year-old girl three years old Lang, hold feet to bed at night, sleep just before dawn summarized Nai Chi, I am not a cold wife, mother ... ..."
Fills Bale. Women's book, in fact, for my adventures, such as those who do not talk about what is indeed a scholarly, not to mention it is for philology, linguistics, women's studies as well as history, archeology, human and national and other disciplines, has a special meaning and how the research value. When the value is left behind a landscape, leaving behind a life like a puzzle piece.
Author: zhanglaolv
