Characteristics of Yongzhou Nvshu

The features of Yongzhou Nvshu are as follows:

The essence of Nvshu belongs to syllabic phonology, and a word basically records one syllable. Nvshu is a writing miracle in the history of China characters, and it can be considered as the earliest Chinese Pinyin which is simpler than Fanqie.

The appearance of the female script is characterized by the overall outline of the characters in a long diamond shape, beautiful handwriting and unique shape, so it is also called "long-legged mosquito".

Collected nearly 2000 words, except for variant characters and typos, only about 600 words were actually used. It records the "dialect" of the local dialect, that is, reading or singing in "dialect". Jiangyong dialect is diverse, with four, five, six and seven tones.

There are 6 tones in Shangjiangwei Town and 7 tones in the county. Because Xiang dialect is always difficult to understand and has great differences, it is only popular in some rural areas, and the local Mandarin introduced from Guangxi is also popular. Jiangyong County's Mandarin is very consistent, with only four tones.

The characters in women's books come from some simple Chinese characters, which have been simplified and transformed. Stroke is simplified into three types: point, straight line and arc.

Women's festivals: There are also some unique traditions in areas where women are popular, which give women more opportunities to go back to their parents' homes or get together with sisters to sing songs and read women's books together. For example, the bird festival on the first day of February, the bullfight on the eighth day of April, the Huashan Temple Fair on May 16th, and the married women returning to their parents' homes on June 6th to celebrate the cool-blowing festival.

Female Calligraphy and Complaining Culture: In Shangjiang area, elderly women, especially Saifu, will complain to their girlfriends who are good at female calligraphy when they feel lonely, lonely and bored after natural and man-made disasters. They will let their girlfriends record their life experiences in women's books and give them some comfort, and these words will become biographies. In this way, these distressed women vent their inner pain by talking. They will carry this biography with them, and whenever they feel lonely or bored, they will take it out to read and recite, so as to get spiritual comfort.