Research and study of birch bark manuscripts and the culture of birch bark of the mongols

本研究考察了写在桦树皮上的蒙古文字，即在蒙古中西部发现的文字和在中国仙江发现的文字。蒙古中部出土的文字与南部的蒙古族聚居区有关，而西部蒙古和咸江出土的文字则显示出蒙古西部特有的蒙古文字母的一些特征。这些文本大多与民间信仰和佛教经典有关，这些内容被蒙古族广泛分享，至今仍在咸江蒙古族中保存下来。然而，在发现这些文本的地点周围，白桦林已经腐烂。在蒙古，桦树皮在日常生活中的使用现在只剩下北部地区了。

This research examined the Mongolian texts written on birch bark-namely the ones discovered in the central and western part of Mongolia, and ones found in Xianjiang, China. The texts excavated in the central Mongolia were found to be relevant to the Mongolian residential area in the southern part, while the texts from the western Mongolia and Xianjiang showed some features of the Mongolian letters unique to the western Mongolia. Most of the texts concern folk belief and the Buddhist scriptures which are widely shared by Mongolians, and they are still preserved among the Mongolians in Xianjiang today. Yet the birch forests have been in decay around the sites where these texts were discovered. In Mongolia, the use of birch bark for everyday life faintly remains only in the northern part now.