Books in rare ancient characters of Shui group retrieved

Anonymous Patron writes “A Short Report On Some 4,690 books written in “Shuishu”, the peculiar pictographic characters of the Shui ethnic group of China, have been retrieved by the Bouyei-Miao Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture of Qiannan in southwestern Guizhou Province as a great move to save the endangered ancient characters.
Shuishu is regarded as a “living fossil” of the Shui ethnic group as books written in Shuishu had recorded encyclopedic contents about the ancient Shui ethnic group, including on astronomy, geography, religion, folk-custom, ethics, philosophy, aesthetics and law.”

April 2, 2004 by Books Legal Issues

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