Preserving China's Shui script, a unique pictographic writing system

STORY: Preserving China's Shui script, a unique pictographic writing system DATELINE: March 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:08:21 LOCATION: GUIYANG, China CATEGORY: CULTURE/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of museum in southwest China's Guizhou 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YAO QINJUN, Shui script master in Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): GE MINGYI, Director of the Archives of Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province 4. various of Shui script documents 5. various of museum staff repairing Shui script documents STORYLINE: The Shui script is the unique pictographic writing system used by the Shui people in southwest China to keep records of their culture. Migrating to settle in the mountains of southern Guizhou around the 3rd century BC, Shui people have coined over 2,000 characters of Shui script, also known as the "living fossil of pictograph." The Shui script is one of the few pictographic writing systems still in use. In 2006, it was listed as

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