湖南省偏僻的南部山区,地处都庞岭与萌渚岭之间的江永县,流传着一种记录当地土话的特殊文字,这种文字只有当地女人认识和使用,男人不认识也不使用,人们称其为“女书”或“女字”。它是世界上独一无二的一种神秘的女性文字符号体系,其字形奇特,形态纤细狭长,右高左低呈菱形,并用当地土语读唱,人死书焚或随葬。女书文字一般书写在手本、扇面,或绣于布帕、编织带、棉被上,内容多表达妇女内心的喜怒哀乐。历史上,女书在江永县大部分地方及毗邻的道县等地 The remote southern mountainous area of ​​Hunan Province, located in Jiangyong County between Du Bang Ling and Mengzhu Ling, is a special language that records local dialect. This text is only known to and used by local women, and the man does not know or use , People call it “female book” or “female word”. It is unique in the world as a mysterious female character symbol system. Its unique glyphs are in the form of slender, narrow rhombus from top to bottom, and are sung in local language. The dead people burn books or burial. Women’s books are generally written in hand, fan, or embroidered cloth, braid, quilts, the content of women’s emotions and more expressed inside. Historically, women book in most places in Jiangyong County and adjacent to the county and other places