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Unique female text

Only heard of "female red", never heard of "female book (female character)", but it exists in the world in a peculiar way. It was created by women, used by women, only passed on to women, not to men. This is a kind of text that is circulated in Shangjiangwei Town, Jiangyong County, Yongzhou, and it is also the only existing gender text discovered by humans so far. The village of Female Book is located on a small island, surrounded by Xiao water on all sides. After entering the village through a suspension bridge hidden in the trees, a Female Book Garden Museum has been built in the village, and several contemporary inheritors are explaining, teaching reading, and chanting. The female book was discovered in the 1980s. There are various versions of folk tales about when to create characters and the reasons for creating characters. Due to the lack of documentary records and the custom of "burning books when people die" by local female book inheritors, the earliest works left in the world are no earlier than the Qing Dynasty, so many sources have become a mystery. The female book used to be written on a folding fan with a tree branch dipped in the bottom of the pot. The font looks slender and elegant, forming a whole, and it seems to have no continuity in construction with pictographic characters. Reading is the local Hakka dialect. There are more than 2,000 single characters in the female book, and more than 600 common phrases, which were enough for women inside and outside the village to communicate and communicate at that time. From this perspective, although the living environment of women at that time was closed, they did not close themselves. They had their own communities and circles of friends. In a patriarchal society, they were not allowed to read and recognize characters, so they created their own characters and did not play with you. Isn't this also a great woman?
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Posted: Feb 9, 2024
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