College students plead to protect the ethnic characters of S

时间：2007-09-03 03:17:32

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Chinanews, Guangzhou, Sep 1 – Among China’s 55 ethnic1 minorities, there is one called “Shui”. Currently more and more Shui people are reluctant to use their own script, which is reducing it to brine of extinction2. Some college students from Guangdong Province have organized a wide variety of activities this summer to get people to know the importance of the Shui script as a cultural heritage.

 

Zhong Guoxiong, a college student from Guangzhou, is one main organizer of these activities. He said there are 400 Shui words that belong to the Chinese-Tibetan language family, and they are largely used in wizardry. Local experts believe these words have been in use than the oracle3 bone script of the Shang Dynasty (1600-1100 B.C.).

 

During these students’ activities they found that the Guizhou provincial4 government had tried its best to protect the Shui language, but few young Shui people wanted to use it. It is said that those 400 Shui words can only be inherited by males.

 
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1 ethnic jiAz3     
adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的
参考例句：
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
2 extinction sPwzP     
n.熄灭，消亡，消灭，灭绝，绝种
参考例句：
  • The plant is now in danger of extinction.这种植物现在有绝种的危险。
  • The island's way of life is doomed to extinction.这个岛上的生活方式注定要消失。
3 oracle jJuxy     
n.神谕，神谕处，预言
参考例句：
  • In times of difficulty,she pray for an oracle to guide her.在困难的时候，她祈祷神谕来指引她。
  • It is a kind of oracle that often foretells things most important.它是一种内生性神谕，常常能预言最重要的事情。
4 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

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