China’s secret, female-only language 

yes! as a chinese i find it exhausting explaining to people the difference between a writing system and a spoken language. and how we have many dialects not to be all called “chinese” when people refer to mandarin.

Glad your comment was at the top, when I saw 永 on their pad and script beneath it I understood what was going on and glad you're here to say so, woulda had to go and look it up :D

​@@一玉No foreigner deserves to know since they will never try to appreciate it nor respect us. Here in the US, everybody's an ignorant bigot brainwashed by the Anglo Judeo world order

Yes, language =/= writing

It breaks my heart every time when I think of how women were treated in the past!!!😢

Nvshu(female-only word) is a Chinese dialect syllabic phonetic script specially used by Jiangyong Nushu in Hunan Province. Nvshu works are written on refined cloth handwritten book (wedding gift), fan, cloth, paper, respectively called "three dynasties book", "song fan", "Pa book" and "paper text". Some are embroidered on the patch, called "embroider word". Here women have the habit of singing hall, often gather together, while doing needlework, while singing, reading, teaching nvshu. The activities of women singing and learning female books are called "reading paper", "reading fan" and "reading Pa", forming a unique female book culture. In the study of anthropology, Bian Xianghe proposed that Jiangyong Nvshu is the only character in the world that exists specifically for women. It was born in the Han Dynasty and is another form of expression of Chinese characters, which will provide a new window for the understanding and understanding of Chinese culture. When Bian Xiangwa discussed Japanese katakana with the famous Japanese Chinese cultural scientist Toki Sawa, he believed that Japanese katakana had the shadow of Chinese Nvshu. On May 20, 2006, "Jiangyong Nvshu" was approved by The State Council and included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Actually katakana for men

Whaa? A genuine fun-fact that no-one teaches? They should teach this more - this is cool!

​@@squid5882there are several versions about origin of Katakana

Yes, but in Japanese, men knows both just don’t use it. For nushu only women are allowed to know this

Kana were known by both men and female. Kanji and the Chinese language were reserved to men, as politics and other topics. Women wrote in Japanese and only using kana. The tale of genji, probably the most important piece of Japanese literature, was written by a woman using only kana.

It's a secret code for discontent women, not a script.

@@captives6479 it is a script,because it is use in the masses and seems to be culturally significant,if it’s not a script than any other script except the latin script is a code for the English language Because I can use the other scripts for writing English

@@captives6479 besides,it even changed into a syllabary It also seems to evolved naturally and believe me scripts do change and evolve

it's a written language.

@@speicaldark it's a writing system, a script developed for the language spoken in the region it was invented it

Report them. People need to learn as well as adhere to netiquette.

I think that's the point

i heard of it before, and i'm not even chinese. or i mean my grandfather was, but i did not grew up in china.

当年很红的电影“雪花扇“就是以女书为背景拍摄的。

It’s a very niche script. I think it was predominantly used by an women of a ethnic minority in a fairly small area in the south.

Unless you are female and from a certain area in China you Wouldn't know about it.

you mean Fan Bingbing

@@stephanielim5544 No the Li Bingbing who played Ada Wong in Resident Evil.

@@mapletibits6372 ahhhh I see

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Yes, that's where I first learned about this, from that book

the west cant even define what a woman is

应该是翻译的错误

yes but "female only language" will get more clicks than "female only writing system" It's silly but that's how media houses work

Oh my goodness, I remember watching this movie when I was younger and have been trying my darnest trying to remember the name for years. I can’t believe I found it by reading your comment. THANK YOU.

@@akdlg9sjjslk8 😂

feminine energy is scam

Yeah it's cool, but nüshu isn't a language, it's just a different script for writing Chinese Characters.

Oh really? Tell me more…

clearly not anymore infact they torment man more nowadays

Patriarchal societies are what work and it's not suffering I'm pretty happy actually

​@@cliptonic69LGBTQ ideology does that, over here we do not have it. We are all happy, our society prospers and those who go against our fundamental values all perish.

@@cliptonic69 who? where? Men are the ones bullying each other, calling each other betas and playing his ego wars.. I’d never seen women harassing men ever.. however women still are getting assaulted and harassed on daily basis. Men hurt women and children.. and other “weaker” men..

@@MariarsClara you might wanna learn the language first then you can learn the script

Lol I like your thinking

I didnt come here specifically because of that, but yeah. I woneer if Brandon Sanderson was inspired by Nushu

As a guy I'm gonna make sure to learn this script so you don't make a difference

@@notpillow6759 lol, your learning something doesn’t erase another person. Sad for you though.

@@oakmaiden2133this is such a cringeass mentality from both of you

@@oakmaiden2133 it does though it's supposed to be a female only language, and by a male learning it then exclusivity is lost.

It's a reminder of how poorly women were treated in china..

Mandarin is the most spoken native tongue on the planet. So there is no need to try to keep the language going. Its going pretty well already. Language is what you speak. Writing system is what you write.

@@Alternatives_Universum well the ladies in this video think it's pretty important so take your beef up with them

Why not?

It's funny. If a Western TV production always used traditional Chinese music when discussing something China-related, they might get the opposite complaints: "Why do you always use stereotypical music when discussing Asian people? You wouldn't use that music when talking about a white or black person." Just goes to show... some people will always **search for a reason** to be offended.

That's true. Both hiragana and nvshu are just simplified handwriting of Chinese characters

@@heian17 Also both of them were designed for women

Whenever a man comes to the conclusion to read nushu, their individual atoms split apart keeping the script 100% guy free.

对啊

我作为一个男的很想问一下你，你觉得现代社会已经达成一个完美的男女平等的状态了吗？如果没有的话，那么“对立”是一种客观存在的事实，不是被人“搞”出来的，而是被“指”出来的，point out, 指出来，让更多人意识到这个事实存在，才有“可能”解决问题。难道大家都闭口不谈，问题就不存在了吗？

Your gf standing next to me

@@darth.severuss I hv no gf

@@Hkchinese888 how sad

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@@Devildemon74 dllm, we use Yuan, dalit

No

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@@ToiChutGongWu Is that like the Bannerman who was protesting in Beijing . They closed down social media just because they were afraid of him.😂

troll

Hello, CCP. 🤡

Even I have to shun your comment, as a native Chinese person.

I love granny peny

Did his first wife use the female only language.

no

yes, but really not so secretly ;-)

If men ever get denied education im sure there would be man language.

This might be the dumbest comment I've seen this year, and I don't throw around words like that lightly. Do you even know what the word TERF means? The fact that it centers around the issue of transgender people--which has absolutely nothing to do with anything mentioned here, and the very concept of which didn't even exist in China at the time?

You’re right, it’s empowering to women and gorgeous to look at 🥰

You say it as being TERF is an insult, go cry about it, incel

A significant part of the hardship is probably "men" like you lol

In feudal China, Han Chinese women were forced to bind their feet from a very young age (about 4-5 years old), which made their feet completely deformed. You could search Google "Chinese binding feet" to see how their feet belike. After that painful process, those women could not even walk normally, so they could not work outdoor, of course. Fortunately, this evil custom has never been exported to other Asian countries.

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What’s wrong with you🤡

@@SpikeOuu whats wrong with you chick?

@@IronMan-u2m What’s wrong with your eyes? Like COVID-19? Are you blind?

Let's get you your meds and get you back to the nursing home grandpa

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@@ToiChutGongWu Guidelines grumpy.

@@ToiChutGongWu Find a job

@@Hkchinese888 Really? Oh, I am surprised you are not telling me my mother works on the corner of Portland Street. Or one of the following: that I am working for a Front Organisation. Or that my “mother” works in a massage parlour in Shanghai and my “father” works in a scam call centre in North Myanmar. Also, that my “father” is scamming in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Don't forget "community guidelines".

@@ToiChutGongWu That is why you should find a job, se7en