Jiang Yongnu Book. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangyong County CPC Committee
Yongzhou, May 10 (China News Network) -- On the evening of the 9th, the large-scale female book epic drama "Octagonal Blossom" was performed in Jiangyong County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province. This live performance is one of the cultural industry projects launched by Jiangyong County.
Jiangyong Nüshu is the only surviving gender script discovered by mankind so far, with uniqueness, uniqueness and monopoly, which is mainly passed down among women in Shangjiangwei Town, Jiangyong County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, and is dedicated to women. Jiang Yongnushu, which is included in the list of Chinese archival documentary heritage, is included in the Guinness Book of World Records as "the world's most gender-specific character", and the Nüshu custom is a national intangible cultural heritage project. At present, Jiang Yongnushu is applying for the "World Intangible Cultural Heritage".
Jiangyong Nushu Ecological Museum. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangyong County CPC Committee
Tan Dun, a world-famous composer and conductor, is the "Ambassador of Nüshu Customs Application" and "Ambassador of Nüshu Culture and Art Inheritance". He once took Jiang Yong's Book as the theme, created the "Micro Film Symphonic Poems and Nüshu", using music and 13 movements such as "Secret Fan" and "Mother's Song" to tell the moving story of "Nüshu". The large-scale Nüshu epic drama "Octagonal Blossom" is a live performance of "Nüshu" launched by Tan Dun based on the micro-film symphony "Nüshu".
This live-action performance takes the original ecological female song, female character, female red and Nüshu customs as the basic elements, and "Nüshu Group Song" as the main line running through the whole play, through twelve chapters such as "Growth Song" and "Sitting Song Hall" to show the unique culture, beautiful scenery and hardworking people of the birthplace of Nüshu, showing the infiltration of Nüshu culture into the female spirit and the inheritance and innovation of Nüshu culture.
Constrained by the inheritance method of "mother to daughter, old to young" and the custom of "burning books by death", coupled with the natural death of Jiang yong women's books, the inheritance of women's books has encountered obstacles, and fewer and fewer people can read and write women's books. In order to protect and improve the "living" environment of Nüshu culture, Jiangyong County has taken a large number of rescue measures, including the establishment of a special leading group for the rescue and protection of Nüshu culture and industrial development, the establishment of nüshu garden and nüshu ecological museum, the cultivation of new generations of nüshu, the restoration of the humanistic environment related to nüshu culture and the folk customs of Nüshu such as "worshiping sisters" and "sitting in song halls", and transforming them into tourism products.
Jiang Yong officially said that the "Micro Film Symphonic Poetry And Nüshu", which has toured in more than 30 countries around the world, has set off a new round of women's book fever at home and abroad, and the advent of the large-scale women's book epic drama "Octagonal Blossom" will further promote the influence of women's book culture.
The large-scale female book epic drama "Octagonal Blossom". Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangyong County CPC Committee
It is understood that Jiangyong County has also created film and television works such as "Snowflake Secret Fan", "Song of Nüshu", "The Last Autumn Leaf", with the theme image of "Amazing Female Book, Xiangyue Jiangyong", building a large tourism of Jiangyong cultural exploration, and launching "Nushu Cultural Exploration Tourism", "Qianjia Yao Ethnic Group Root-Seeking Leisure Tour", "Shanggantang Ancient Village Cultivation and Reading Moral Culture Tour", "Goulan Yaozhai Exploration Experience Tour" and other boutique tourism routes.
Next, Jiangyong County plans to build Nüshu into a world-class cultural brand with competitive advantages, declare the customs of Nüshu as a representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and at the same time build the Jiangyong Nüshu Cultural and Ecological Protection Zone, build the Jiangyong International Nüshu Cultural and Creative Industrial Park, and create a boutique tourism route for Nüshu culture to explore the source. (End)