The Research on the Actual Condition of the Chinese

中国女书的起源和历史到目前为止还没有弄清楚，关于这一点一直有很多争议。谢志民教授认为，女书与甲骨文或更长的甲骨文一样源远流长。清华大学的赵黎明教授认为女书产生于宋代或以后，吴晗大学的龚哲兵教授认为女书诞生于清朝。张黎明认为，南京出土的太平天国女书铜币是太平天国政府发行的官方铜币，也是最古老的女书资料。相反，远藤在咨询了太平天国专家后，认为这枚“铜币”不同于太平天国政府发行的铜币，因为它的官方文件的措辞与“铜币”的文字没有关系。2002年11月，她在湖南省长永州举行的国际研讨会上提出了自己的想法。最近，当地政府积极保护女书，并在上蒋旭镇浦玮村建立了一个女书文化村，那里曾经是女书最流行的地方。然而，很明显，他们的真正目标是在那里发展旅游业，因此，人们担心女书文化会被部分扭曲和夸大，而不是保护它。在座谈会上，远藤表达了她对政府政策的担忧，并呼吁他们保存最忠实的文字传播者何延新写的女书。

The origin and history of the Chinese women's script, Nushu, have not been made clear so far, about which there has been much argument. Prof. Xie Zhimin maintains that Nushu has a long history same as that of inscriptions on bones and tortoise carapaces or longer one. But Prof. Zhao Liming of Qinghua University considers that Nushu was created in Song era or later, and Prof. Gong Zhebing of Wu Han University has an opinion that it was born in Qing dynasty.Prof. Zhano Liming maintains that the "copper coin" of Taiping Tianguo with inscriptions of Nushu, which was found in Nanjing, is the official copper coin issued by the Taiping Tianguo government and the oldest material of Nushu.On the contrary, Endo considers that the "copper coin" is different from those issued by the Taiping Tianguo government because there is no relation between the wording of its official documents and that of the inscriptions on the "copper coin", after having consulted an expert on Taiping Tianguo. She presented her consideration at the international symposium held at Chang Yong Prefecture, Hunan Province in November, 2002.Recently the local government has become active in preserving Nushu and built a Nushu culture village with a "Nushu Classroom" in Pu Wei Village, Shang Jiang Xu Zhen where the script once had been most prevalent. However, it is clear that their real objective is to develop tourism there, and as a result, it has become feared that the Nushu culture would be distorted and exaggerated in part instead of its preservation. At the symposium, Endo expressed her apprehension about the government policy and appealed to them for preserving the Nushu script written by He Yanxin, the most faithful transmitter of the script.