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Water Book -- The Inheritance Code Of Aquarium Culture

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The picture is "water book" character sign.

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"Shui Shu" is the unique character of our ethnic minority aquarium. It is also a pictographic character besides the Dongba language. It is an ancient character symbol similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions. It records the ancient aquarium's astronomical, geographical, religious, folklore, ethics, philosophy, aesthetics, law and other cultural information, and is known as the "living fossil" of hieroglyphs.

Experts believe that "Shui Shu" is equivalent to the Han's book of changes, which is extensive and profound, and is an encyclopedia of Shui nationality.

Because water books are mainly copied by hand and circulated from mouth to mouth, the loss is serious.

In recent years, in order to save this cultural treasure, the relevant departments of Guizhou Province, under the guidance of experts, carried out a large number of collection and rescue work for "water book". At present, more than 6000 precious water books have been collected.

The mysterious "heavenly book" of ancient aristocrats

Among the 17 ethnic groups with their own writing, the Shui nationality is one of them. The ancient writing of the aquarium is called water book. The water book is a unique writing written by the industrious and intelligent ancestors of the Shui Nationality in the long period of production and life practice. It is an ancient character symbol similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions.

The water language calls the water book "Sui Sui", which means the words of the water family or the book of the water family.

Shui Shu records the ancient aquarium's astronomical, geographical, folklore, ethics, philosophy, aesthetics, law, religion and other cultural information, is the water family's "book of changes", is still widely used in the Shui nationality folk, so it is known as the "living fossil" of pictographs. It is an important ancient book to interpret the distant history of the aquarium, and also an important password to crack, study and inherit the history and culture of the aquarium society.

Water books are known as the Encyclopedia of Shui nationality. Water books include funeral rolls, wedding rolls, and paper making rolls. They cover heavenly stems, earthly branches, eight diagrams, celestial phenomena, seasonal solar terms, birds, animals, fish and insects, body organs, number and orientation. The form of the characters is very old, resembling the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, resembling ancient and small seal characters, some are pictographs, some are the inverted, oblique or anti writing of regular script.

The astronomical and calendar data reflected in the water book is a very precious historical and cultural heritage. Some of its basic theories, such as nine stars, twenty eight rooms, eight diagrams, nine heavenly stems, earthly branches, sun and moon, five stars, yin and Yang five elements, sixty Jia Zi and seven yuan calendar system, are the crystallization of Shui People's wisdom and art.

In June 2006, the water book was listed as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage of the country, together with the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mawei embroidery.

The symbol system of water book is unique. It has a Chinese character similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, as well as many hieroglyphic symbols, as well as paragraphs and pictorial characters.

It has fewer characters (only a few hundred words), unique character symbols, and text can not express meaning independently. Instead of relying on the relationship between teachers and students, it is a "priest" who can read and read water books (all male).

According to the relevant items contained in the water book, it is meaningful to explain in combination with oral contents.

Therefore, thousands of years of water inflow books have been handed down from generation to generation by the way of oral and hand copying, which is a combination of the ancient Chinese character pcripts and the oral pmission of cultural heritage.

The custom of water books is the formation, development and inheritance of water books and constitutes a custom related to the life of Shui nationality.

The way of water Book custom's inheritance has formed two parts of water book: one is the hand written manuscript compiled by the ancient script of the Shui nationality, and the other is through the water book's oral heart, which is used to make up for a large number of essentials, ceremonies, Congratulations, which can not be recorded because of the imperfect development of the language.

There are many volumes of water books, which are mainly composed of two categories: reading books and applying volumes.

The volume book mainly includes dozens of reading volumes, time rolls, and 28 volumes. The volume of the recitation mainly includes ten volumes, namely "seven volumes" and "Hai Zi rolls".

"Water book" has been circulating for thousands of years. Through the study of "Shui Shu", new discoveries have been made in three aspects: the historical origin, the text and the migration of the ancestors of the Shui nationality.

Mysterious water book to explain the origin of Shui Nationality

A brief history of Shui nationality published in 1986 called the water book more than 400 words. The study of Chinese aquarium culture has more than 500 words.

But there are many variant characters in the water book, which are mainly concentrated in the heavenly stems and earthly branches, the spring, summer, autumn and winter, nine stars and so on. According to the water conservatism expert Pan Zhaolin's "conservative guess, if each water character word has at least one variant word, then the total amount of water characters is about 1600".

Water books may reveal the origin of Shui nationality and Han nationality in Central Plains.

The 24 symbols of Xia Dynasty pottery unearthed from the site of Er Li Culture in Henan, Guizhou, were identified and read by the local Shui Shu in Guizhou, and more than half of the symbols have been cracked. In the existing water book literature, the same characters can be found with the symbols of Xia Tao.

Experts speculate that using the records in the water book to decipher the summer pottery symbol indicates that this ancient minority script may be a vein of Xia culture remains, and will help to uncover the mystery of "Xia Du", which has plagued archaeological circles for more than 40 years.

It shows that Shui Shu is related to Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronze inscriptions. The Shui nationality was at the same time parallel to the development of the Han nationality in the Xia and Shang Dynasties. The ancestors of the Shui nationality had existed in the primitive society as early as the primitive society.

Water culture elements come from water books.

For thousands of years, through the filtration of history and the continuous improvement and development of shui culture itself, the Shui nationality has formed its own unique cultural system, including residential buildings, totem worship, funeral houses, daily life, song and dance costumes and so on all have their own cultural characteristics, but the elements of these cultures can not be separated from water books.

The major festivals such as Dujie and Mao Jie should be measured by water calendar. It is necessary to rely on water books to choose good or evil according to water and books.

The aquarium worshipping the stone gods has special feelings for fish and horses. Fish in the aquarium and fish at the festival must have fish. The best dish is "fish and leek". It is essential for the guests to come. Horse breeding is also one of the characteristics of the aquarium culture. This is in the past traffic inconvenience, Marco can be used as a means of pportation, but more importantly, the need for horse racing and death after the death of a horse.

In addition to cattle and horses and other large livestock, the Shui nationality also used pigs and porridge as the highest etiquette for hospitality. The guests came to kill the pigs, cooked porridge and glutinous rice to entertain guests. This is the best reception specification.

All kinds of exquisite patterns, such as stone tablets, horsetail embroidery, etc., can fully reflect the cultural roots and totem worship of the Shui nationality. These cultural elements can be found in the water books and the folklore of the Shui nationality. They are inherited from the water books and the water language from generation to generation, and have been followed so far.

Water book is an important clue to explore the origin of Shui nationality.

From the water book, we can see that its character and symbol system is unique. It has a Chinese character similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, as well as many hieroglyphic symbols, as well as paragraphs and pictorial characters. Text can not express meaning independently.

Therefore, thousands of years of water inflow books have been handed down from generation to generation by the way of oral and handwriting. It is a combination of the ancient Chinese characters' pcripts and the pmission of oral and mental culture.

According to the report, the aquarium culture originated in the Sui Shui Valley and moved to the Dushi River Basin in Qiannan, Guizhou. After that, the people in the Tang Dynasty set up the state of Fu Shui, comforting the human group claiming to be "Sui" as the main object, and then replacing it with "water". This is the beginning of the recognition of the Shui nationality, and also a historical witness of the evolution of the Shui nationality into a single nation and its own language.

The history of aquarium migration has been further confirmed.

Experts and scholars found a record of "Sika Deer" in the book "water book" collected in Libo. "Sika Deer" is in the north but not in the south, which confirms the saying that the ancestors of the Shui nationality moved north and moved south.

For thousands of years, the water book has survived and continues to rely on its mysterious writing structure and special uses, relying on hand copied and oral pmission. So far, it has retained the information of ancient civilization of the Shui nationality, and it still has a sacred and lofty status among the Shui people.

Shui Shu, a literal system with only a few hundred words, has been derived from a mysterious and unique ancient culture and has become the spiritual pillar of a nation, supporting the cultural history and civilization history of the nation for thousands of years. Its unique charm has to be praised by many scholars.

Water book is an inherent special culture of the Shui nationality. It can experience its strong vitality until it passes through the frost and rain.

The amount of information stored in water books contains all aspects of the aquarium culture. Through it, we can explore clues of the development of the aquarium society through time and space, trace the formation and development of the aquarium culture, and uncover many mysteries about the aquarium.

Two in 00 and six years, Shui Shu has been included in the first batch of China's archives and heritage conservation list and the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection list.

It is revealed that the relevant government departments in Guizhou are actively creating conditions and expect to declare the world's cultural intangible cultural heritage to UNESCO next year.

(people's government network of San Du Shui Autonomous County)

First water text coin

Pan Zhaolin, an Associate Research Fellow of Guizhou Institute for Nationalities in 2004, found a Song Dynasty coin with water characters.

This is the first "water book" coin found so far.

Pan Zhaolin said that the bronze coin was written in Chinese characters.