CHINA-YUNNAN-LIJIANG-YUHU VILLAGE-LIFE CHANGE (CN)

CHINA-YUNNAN-LIJIANG-YUHU VILLAGE-LIFE CHANGE (CN)

(240412) -- LIJIANG, April 12, 2024 (Xinhua) -- He Jielin writes in Dongba pictograph at home in Yuhu village, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 25, 2024. Living in Yuhu village at the foot of the Yulong Snow Mountain, He Jielin has witnessed the changes in this ancient Naxi village. From the 1980s to 1990s, He Jielin and his wife could only live off the land. Like other villagers, the couple made a living by cutting wood, picking medicinal materials and digging sand, which resulted in great damages to the forest and the environment. However, people in the village remained poor. In 2004, as the village started to develop tourism, He Jielin began to raise horses and cattle, founded home inns, and gradually, his living condition was improved. In June 2020, He Jielin renovated his old residence, turning it into the village's first museum on Naxi ethnic culture. Tourists were attracted to his museum to experience various activities related with local culture. After studying in So

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