On preservation Chinese Women's Script (Nushu)

本文通过2004年的田野调查，对女书的保存现状进行了分析。随着杨焕义在采访结束后两周的去世，至今仍没有一个女性真正掌握了女书的传统技能，并能在少女时代用女书进行交流。如何更好地保护女书，是我们面临的一项紧迫任务。1.女书的变形本被广泛使用。2.地方当局承认女书变形本的价值。3.何阳信的文字最接近女书，由于日常工作的压力，女书现在几乎不练习了。我们担心，上述情况不利于女书文字的保存。女书有3000年的历史和2000字等）为了使其回到正轨，我们与日本和中国的研究人员举行了一次联合研讨会，以分享对女书的逻辑/科学研究的相互理解。这使得聚集在一个地方的所有女书在两国的研究人员，并提供了一个很好的机会，真诚的辩论/讨论和介绍各自的研究女书。通过这次研讨会，我们确认了对女书历史和女书研究方法的相互理解。

On preservation of Chinese Women's script (Nushu)This reports the current situation of Nushu from the fieldwork which took place in 2004.With the death of Yang Huanyi who past away two weeks after our interview, there remains no woman who has actually obtained Nushu skill in traditional way and capable to communicate in Nushu in their girlhood. We are facing an urgent task for better preservation of Nushu.The result of our fieldwork shows the following facts ;1.The deformed(deviant) versions of traditional Nushu script is widely used.2.The local authority admit the value of those deformed Nushu script writers.3.He Yangxin, whose script is the most closest to traditional Nushu script, hardly practicesNushu now as being pressed by her dairy chore.We concern that the above situation is not optimal for preserving Nushu script.There have been gossips and exaggerated discourse of Nushu permeated around mass media such as Internet and newspaper (eg. Nushu has 3000 years of history and 2000 characters, etc.)Putting it back to the right track, we have held a joint symposium with researchers both in Japan and China, in order to share the mutual understanding by logical/scientific study into Nushu. This made possible togather all Nushu researchers in both countries in one place, and provided us with the great opportunity for sincere debate/discussion and presentation of respective study on Nushu. Through this symposium, we have confirmed mutual understanding of Nushu history and Nushu research methodology.