Abstract

Dongba scripture is an important pictograph, and the study of dongba script helps to study the origin and development of writing. Through Lijiang dongba scripture, we find there is a special way to create new script by the change of the script’s shape, called variant pictographs. This article researches on the variant pictograph.

Highlights

  • Open AccessThe Dongba script is the script used in religious activities by naxi’s priest—dongba

  • Lijiang dongba culture is prosperous on the history, and there have been many famous dongba, leaving a lot of beautifully decorated, elegant dongba manuscript [1]

  • There are many pictographs in dongba scripts, which can change into another scripts by change the shape of the scripts, and the meaning it representing has the connection with the original ones

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Summary

Introduction

Because dongba script is pictograph and is still in use, it is called the living fossil of human script. The American scholar Joseph Charles Francis Rock has been collecting Dongba manuscript in Lijiang region and is mainly kept in the Harvard-Yenching Institute [2]. “An Annotated Collection of Naxi Dongba Manuscripts” is the biggest collection of Dongba manuscripts until now, covering almost all areas of Lijiang Dongba manuscripts. The materials quoted from the “An Annotated Collection of Naxi Dongba Manuscript” will be marked the volume and the page, and “26.131” means the material comes from volume 26, page 131. The materials quoted from the “Naxi Dongba manuscripts collected by Harvard-Yenching Institute” will be marked the volume and the page, and “H4.476” means the material comes from volume 4, p. The materials quoted from the “Naxi Dongba manuscripts collected by Harvard-Yenching Institute” will be marked the volume and the page, and “H4.476” means the material comes from volume 4, p. 476

Pictograph
Variant Pictograph
Lijiang Region Region Variant Pictograph Examples
Village — DOI
The Break of the Fonts
Cypress
Remove One Part
Scribble the Black Color
Variety of the Movement
People —Jump
People —Shiver
The Significance and Importance of Variant Pictograph

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