Abstract
Lijiang, located in the northwest of Yunnan province, is famous for its dongba script. Dongba script is an important pictograph, which is still in use in border area between Yunnan and Sichuan. This article researches on the pictograph of dongba script, and focuses on the classification of pictograph of dongba script. The study of dongba script helps to study the origin and development of script.
Highlights
Dongba culture is the excellent traditional culture of ethnic of Naxi
The materials mainly come from < An Annotated Collection of Naxi Dongba Manuscripts > [4], which is the biggest collection of dongba manuscripts, covering almost all areas of Lijiang dongba manuscripts
The majority of them are pictograph character, so we focus on the pictograph character of dongba script
Summary
Dongba culture is the excellent traditional culture of ethnic of Naxi. Lijiang, located in the northwest of Yunnan province, is the main settlement of Naxi [1]. The American scholar Joseph Charles Francis Rock has been collecting dongba manuscripts in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces. Most of the dongba manuscripts are collected from Lijiang region and are mainly kept in the Harvard—Yenching Institute [3]. The materials mainly come from < An Annotated Collection of Naxi Dongba Manuscripts > [4], which is the biggest collection of dongba manuscripts, covering almost all areas of Lijiang dongba manuscripts. We are lucky to find them in < Naxi Dongba Manuscripts Collected by Harvard—Yenching Institute > [5], which is a great collection of dongba manuscripts These materials come from Harvard—Yenching Institute, and most of them are collected by Joseph Charles Francis Rock. “H4.471” means the materials come from volume 4, page 471
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