Glückliche Dongba-Sammlung

Book size: 140X100mm, 85gsm cream woodfree paper, interior 176pp, round spine, deboss and foiling on cover (with flap) Lined, Acid-free sustrainable forest paper, high paper opacity, flowing writing guaranteed, without saturation.with memo pouch inside,with beautiful bookmark. Description on cover: Living hieroglyph Dongba characters Dongba characters are the written language of Naxi ethnic in Lijiang, Yunnan Province in China. It is renowned as the only well-preserved living hieroglyph in the world, which is one of the most ancient hieroglyphic writing systems, the living fossil of the origin and development of written language. According to a legend, when Timbashiro, ancestor of Dongba, began to create characters, he holds the pen sent by a golden deer, basked in the inspiration brought by a blue bird, facing a rough bark, drawing on his budding intelligence, watching the shape of Kui Star, observing the traces of turtle stripes and bird claws, and eventually produces Dongba characters by imbibing all the great and beauty in the universe. The script on the covers tells the story of a man and a woman who encountered, fell in love and then got married, living a happy life of man plowing, woman weaving.